Cairo carnage: Shock footage shows cop atrocities
Riot police are spreading tear gas and firing rubber bullets as the crowd of stone-throwing protesters at Egypt’s Tahrir Square begins to swell. RT’s Paula Slier reports from Cairo that the situation on the ground remains extremely tense.Some of the rubber bullets have gone astray, hitting residential buildings nearby and starting fires. Paula has encountered at least a dozen ambulances and a fire brigade quickly responding.
Tear gas was burning Paula’s eyes, and RT’s crew had to go inside one of the nearby buildings to take shelter so they could rinse their eyes with water..... MORE
Source: RT.com
URL: http://rt.com/news/egypt-protesters-disperse-bullets-813/
1 comment
"The sense Paula gets from the mood of the crowd is that there is going to be more violence, but much depends on how the police and security forces respond.
"However, independent online journalist James Corbett says that this demonstration is unlikely to turn into a new revolution. He says what is going on in Egypt is the predictable result of a revolution that failed to do what it set out to.
“I would not suppose that this is a new revolution so much as the continuation of the revolution. I think that the revolutionary fervor that was there in the earlier part of this… did not really accomplish what it set up for itself.”"
Post a Comment