Maroc – 10.000 manifestants à Rabat contre la répression de l’armée égyptienne.
L’Egypte : un pays à feu et à sang, des victoires à la Pyrrhus
via Premier site Economique du Maghreb – Energie – Finances – Economie –.
The Army Pulled The Trigger, But The West Loaded The Gun
How Western liberals provided the moral ammo for the massacres in Egypt
By Brendan O’Neill
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35875.htm
August 16, 2013 „Information Clearing House – There is ‘world outcry’ over the behaviour of the Egyptian security forces yesterday, when at least 525 supporters of the deposed Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi were massacred. The killings were ‘excessive’, says Amnesty, in a bid to bag the prize for understatement of the year; ‘brutal’, say various handwringing newspaper editorials; ‘too much’, complain Western politicians.
Such belated expressions of synthetic sorrow are not only too little, too late (hundreds of Egyptians have already been massacred by the military regime that swept Morsi from power); they are also extraordinarily blinkered. To focus on the actions of the security forces alone, on what they did with their trigger fingers yesterday, is to miss the bigger picture; it is to overlook the question of where the military regime got the moral authority to clamp down on its critics so violently in the name of preserving its undemocratic grip on power. It got it from the West, including from so-called Western liberals and human-rights activists. The moral ammunition for yesterday’s massacres was provided by the very politicians and campaigners now crying crocodile tears over the sight of hundreds of dead Egyptians.
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Die algerische Tageszeitung Le Quotidien d’Oran berichtet am 18.08.2013 über Geheimverhandlungen zwischen der tunesischen Regierung und der Oppositions-Koalition am 15.08.2013 in Paris:
Crise en Tunisie : Islamistes et opposants admettent être en pourparlers
par Antoine Lambroschini De L’afp
Les islamistes au pouvoir en Tunisie et leurs détracteurs ont reconnu, dimanche, pour la première fois, avoir eu des pourparlers directs et en secret, près d’un mois après le début d’une profonde crise politique déclenchée par l’assassinat d’un opposant.
Le parti de centre-droit, Nidaa Tounès, a reconnu la tenue de pourparlers cette semaine lors d’une tournée en Europe de son chef, un ex-Premier ministre post-révolutionnaire, Beji Caïd Essebsi, ennemi juré des islamistes pour avoir travaillé avec le président déchu en 2011, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali et sous Habib Bourguiba, père de l’indépendance tunisienne.
„[…] Dem gestürzten Präsidenten war es weder gelungen, die Generäle unter seine Kontrolle zu bringen, noch, deren Macht entscheidend zurückzudrängen. So gingen die Übergriffe der Polizei weiter, ebenso das gewaltsame Vorgehen gegen Proteste. Mursi bemühte sich, die Sicherheitskräfte nicht zu vergraulen. Zugleich versuchte er, das bestehende Regime unter die Kontrolle der Muslimbrüder zu bringen, statt es mit einem transparenten Vorgehen und unter Einbezug anderer politischer Gruppen zu reformieren. So besetzte er Schlüsselpositionen mit eigenen Leuten, statt Forderungen nach einer Wahl der Provinzgouverneure umzusetzen. Für Mursi oder vielmehr für die Führungsriege der Muslimbrüder, welche im Hintergrund das Sagen hatte, ging es um einen Wettstreit der Islamisten mit der alten Elite, der jedoch so nicht zu gewinnen war.
„[…] Since the military leads the ruling caste, and sets the agenda and talking points for their civilian subordinates, political conflict is now cast as military conflict. Look no further than the military ruler’s discourse portraying resistance to his putsch as a battle between patriots and enemies. Oppositional sit-ins are threats to national security. Participants in the sit-ins are duped simpletons or paid agents. Their leaders are terrorists and killers. And any opposition to the military’s road map is a threat to state standing.
The challenges confronting the revolutionary project couldn’t be more daunting. It not only faces a reconstituted, militarized anti-revolutionary order, but a wicked ideology that naturalizes that order as a matter of state standing. State standing boils down to the prestige of the state’s hard core, military and police. And the revolution’s great promise of endowing citizens with full political standing is in abeyance.“
via Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة: Fetishizing the State.
„[…] The partner of the Guardian journalist who has written a series of stories revealing mass surveillance programmes by the US National Security Agency was held for almost nine hours on Sunday by UK authorities as he passed through London’s Heathrow airport on his way home to Rio de Janeiro.
David Miranda, who lives with Glenn Greenwald, was returning from a trip to Berlin when he was stopped by officers at 8.05am and informed that he was to be questioned under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The controversial law, which applies only at airports, ports and border areas, allows officers to stop, search, question and detain individuals.
The 28-year-old was held for nine hours, the maximum the law allows before officers must release or formally arrest the individual. According to official figures, most examinations under schedule 7 – over 97% – last less than an hour, and only one in 2,000 people detained are kept for more than six hours.
Miranda was released, but officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles. […]“
via Glenn Greenwald’s partner detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours | World news | The Guardian.
A note on the imminent dispersal of the Pro-Morsy sit-ins
Posted on July 27, 2013 by Sarah Carr
http://inanities.org/
Every time I go to the Rab3a sit-in I think that it would be an almost impossible task to clear the people crammed into it; surely not even the Interior Ministry and armed forces would want to take on that task, not because they are concerned about loss of life but because of the logistical difficulty, and the political fallout internationally (the July 26 protests demonstrated that the anti-terrorism crowd seem to care about what the international community thinks).
With or against us
Sunday, August 18, 2013 – 21:51
It’s trite but worth remembering that an excellent barometer of political freedom is how a regime treats the media. Deposed President Mohamed Morsi attempted to shut critics up through clumsy litigation – charges of insulting him, or the judiciary and so on. It was a classic Hosni Mubarak technique but Morsi used it far more frequently. Another technique was tacitly approving or at least not doing anything when Salafi preacher Hazem Salah Abou Ismail and friends set up shop outside the Media Production City in October 6 City, in order to intimidate Lamis al-Hadidi and other vocally anti-Brotherhood presenters beyond state control.
Monday, August 19, 2013 – 07:37 Authors: Mada Masr
A security statement confirmed the death of 36 Muslim Brotherhood supporters in custody on Sunday as they reportedly tried to escape from a truck transferring them to a prison facility. In its statement, the Ministry of Interior explained that the deaths occurred of suffocation as police fired tear gas to prevent them from fleeing and to liberate an officer who was taken hostage by them inside the truck. The prisoners were being transferred to the Abu Zaabal facility. The state-run Middle East News Agency reported that the escape attempt involved 612 inmates who were in the convoy as they were being handed to the Abu Zaabal prison facility in Qalyubia. The truck was reportedly attacked by an armed group. In its narrative of the event, the Muslim Brotherhood said that the number of those killed exceeds 200 and that there was no attempt by the prisoners to escape. Citing an anonymous lawyer, the Freedom and Justice Portal, affiliated with the Brotherhood, reported that there was no prisoners‘ transfer at that time and that prison sources told them that a group of Muslim Brotherhood detainees was abruptly transferred from their shared cell on Sunday afternoon, and taken to another cell, suggesting that they were assassinated. Over 1000 people died in clashes between Muslim Brotherhood supporters from one side, police, army and civilians from the other, since August 14, when the security started dispersing two main sit-ins calling for the reinstatement of deposed President Mohamed Morsi, a Brotherhood leader.