As lately everyone has been doing nothing but pointing at incidents and insulting whoever did a mistake from his point of view, I found a lot of similarities between two incidents that happened consecutively on the same day Friday the 26th of February 2011. For those who didn’t hear about what happened at that day in Egypt I’ll give you the highlights so you can follow on.
On Friday the 27th of February 2011 in the afternoon in a city in southern Cairo called Maadi a policeman shot a microbus driver with his gun in a fight at Algeria Square then the people who were watching kicked the crap out of the policeman till he nearly died, and then they hit his little brother as well according to their mother’s testimony. On the same day at the famous Tahrir square in Cairo’s downtown after midnight for some reason the military police used sticks and electric shocks to disperse all the protesters from the square.
On the 28th of February at 3 pm the military broadcasted an apology for what happened saying that they never gave orders regarding what happened and all what happened was because of some “infiltrators” who provoked the military police.
So, coming to my conclusion from both incidents we can see clearly that definitely someone did something wrong as people got hurt. But when the people who are supposed to keep us safe harm us then it becomes a huge mistake not just a small naïve one. From my humble point of view if the microbus driver provoked the policeman to an extent that he can do nothing about, if he actually did start hitting him or insulting him – which witnesses say it didn’t happen – the policeman is supposed to be an educated person who received 4 years of education on how to communicate and deal with human beings whether they are criminals or normal civilians. Whatever happened a policeman should never take out a gun or shoot.
For the second incident, even if there were some “infiltrators” who did provoke the military they should have detained them. But what happened was they did scare all the people torturing them with sticks and electric shocks, removed their tents etc.. and finally running after them till they evacuated the square totally in less than 20 minutes !!
Every little action from a man of power either a military soldier or a policeman – although the military soldiers are away better of course – is counted and taken into consideration. We are at a time where each word from an official counts whether if he is with the corruption and the old regime or if he is with the revolution and the change to a better Egypt. And so far the statements from Mr.Shafik the prime minister and Mr.Wagdy the interior minister shows us nothing but their total believe in the old ways of dealing with civilians with lies and false information.
I write as an Egyptian who suffered in the streets from the 25th till the 3rd of February in downtown to get my rights to write what I want, to say and think as I want. I did participate for social justice and to get rid of the emergency law. For human rights, humanity and finally to get rid of an era with a regime that made 95% of the population suffering each day in every single possible way and then lie to the whole world about it with their unethical false media. I did write that to say ENOUGH !! enough of treating us like illiterate civilians who do not understand what is happening around them.
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