சிரியாவில் முஸ்லீம் அரசாங்கமே முஸ்லீம்களை கொல்வதில் இதுவரை ஒரு லட்சத்துக்கும் மேற்பட்ட முஸ்லீம்கள் அல்லாஹூ அக்பர் ஆகியிருக்கிறார்கள்.
இப்போது எகிப்திலும் முஸ்லீம் அரசாங்கமே முஸ்லீம்களை கொல்ல ஆரம்பித்திருக்கிறது.
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இப்போது எகிப்திலும் முஸ்லீம் அரசாங்கமே முஸ்லீம்களை கொல்ல ஆரம்பித்திருக்கிறது.
Death toll in Egypt hits 525 as government declares state of emergency after bloody clashes
The Obama administration issued a statement that it 'strongly condemns' the crackdown. Egyptian expats in New York fretted over the tragedy unfolding in their homeland — and cursed the Muslim Brotherhood.
Comments (88)BY NICHOLAS WELLS AND CORKY SIEMASZKO / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
PUBLISHED: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2013, 9:23 AM
UPDATED: THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2013, 7:08 AM
ALY HAZZAA/AP
A police vehicle, which fell 50 feet to the ground, is pushed off a bridge by protesters Wednesday.
Egypt’s military-backed leader declared a state of emergency Wednesday after at least 525 people were killed in bloody clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
The worst of the chaos was in Cairo, where fierce street battles raged and Muslim Brotherhood members, determined to restore Morsi to power, at one point occupied the Finance Ministry and took hostages.
SABRY KHALED/AP
The officers in the vehicle were scattered like rag dolls as it hit the pavement.
In one of the most savage incidents, Morsi backers pushed an armored police van off a bridge, sending it plunging 50 feet and scattering the cops like rag dolls when it hit the ground.
The U.S. ordered its Cairo embassy temporarily closed and the Obama administration issued a statement saying it “strongly condemns” the crackdown.
AHMED GOMAA/AP
A protester comforts a wounded colleague after Egyptian security forces began to clear a sit-in by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in the eastern Nasr City district of Cairo Wednesday.
Among the dead were veteran British TV cameraman Mick Deane, 61, Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz, a 26-year-old reporter for the Dubai newspaper Xpress, and the 17-year-old daughter of a top Muslim Brotherhood leader.
ENGY IMAD/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
The death toll in Cairo is rising, with more than 3,572 others injured, as government troops attempted to clear our two camps of protesters.
At least 3,717 people were wounded.
Interim President Adly Mansour also clamped a curfew on his country, saying it was necessary because security was threatened by “deliberate acts of sabotage, attacks on public and private installations, and the killing of citizens by elements of the extremist groups.”
HASSAN AMMAR/AP
Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans against Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi during clashes with Egyptian security forces in Cairo that have left more than 50 dead, including a Sky News cameraman.
His government claimed 43 police officers were killed by protesters.
SKY NEWS/AP
British TV cameraman Mick Deane was shot dead.
But Mansour’s move cost him a key ally when Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei — a Nobel Peace Prize laureate — resigned in protest.
On a section of Steinway St. in Astoria in Queens, known as “Little Egypt,” worried expats fretted over the tragedy unfolding in their homeland — and cursed the Muslim Brotherhood.
SABRY KHALED/AP
The U.S. has closed its Cairo embassy.
“Hopefully, this is done as fast as it can,” said 30-year-old Hany Malak, who was smoking a hookah and watching the TV coverage at Arab Community Center.
Malak is a Coptic Christian — an oppressed minority in mostly Muslim Egypt.
MAHMOUD KHALED/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Egyptian security forces carry an injured comrade after a police crackdown on a protest camp.
“This is the only way to deal with people like the Muslim Brotherhood,” he said.
AMR ABDALLAH DALSH/REUTERS
Dead bodies of members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi lie in a room in a field hospital at the Rabaa Adawiya mosque.
Gamal Dewidar, 54, owner of the El Khayan hookah bar, had even less use for the Islamists — and he’s a Muslim.
“The army is doing their job to correct the country and to save the country from what’s going on in the streets,” he said. “If I was in charge in Egypt, I would do exactly the same.”
STRINGER/REUTERS
A member of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporter of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shouts slogans as riot police clear Rabaa Adawiya square.
The crackdown began at dawn. Within hours, the skies over Cairo were black with smoke and echoed with the sounds of gunfire, as armored military vehicles and bulldozers cleared protesters from the encampment near the pro-Morsi Rabbah al-Adawiya Mosque.
SABRY KHALED/AP
Roughly 3,572 people have been wounded in the clashes.
With military helicopters hovering overhead, Morsi backers ran for cover — their screams drowned out by the whoop-whoop of the propellers.
“Helicopters from the top and bulldozers from below,” Saleh Abdulaziz, a 39-year-old teacher who was bleeding from a head wound, told Reuters. “They smashed through our walls. Police and soldiers, they fired tear gas at children. They continued to fire at protesters even when we begged them to stop.”
KHALED ELFIQI/EPA
Interim President Adly Mansour declared a monthlong state of emergency and imposed a curfew while he dispatched the Army to help police restore order and protect government buildings.
Soldiers also fired from the rooftops on the terrified people below, many of them women and children desperate to escape. But there was nowhere to run — the soldiers had sealed off all the streets surrounding the camp.
“Tear gas [canisters] were falling from the sky like rain,” protester Khaled Ahmed, 20, told the news service. “There are no ambulances inside. They closed every entrance.”
KHALED ELFIQI/EPA
The government said 43 police officers were killed by protesters.
With tears streaming down his face, Ahmed said, “There are women and children in there. God help them. This is a siege, a military attack on a civilian protest camp.”
Egyptian officials insisted security forces showed the “utmost degree of self-restraint,” especially given “the volume of weapons and violence directed against the security forces.”
Video footage on Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya showed black-clad police officers seizing ammunition and weapons from the encampment.
But witnesses said it appeared to be a one-sided fight and that soldiers shot at least 20 people in the legs who had rushed there to help.
At least a dozen journalists covering the crisis reported that police detained, beat and threatened to shoot them.
Bloody street battles were also waged in other Egyptian cities like Minya, Assiut, Marsa Matruh and Suez, where military snipers were videotaped firing on demonstrators from rooftops.
Morsi, who was Egypt’s first freely elected president, was ousted July 3 and is in the army’s hands. Since then, Egypt has been engulfed in chaos.
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