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Academic Research Journal of History and Culture Vol. 1(2), pp. 27-32, July, 2015. ISSN: 2437-2196 DOI: 10.14662/ARJHC2015.013 Research Paper Rabba massacre and the military coup of Egypt
Ali Adel Ali Ali Ibrahim
Student of Bachelor of Building and Construction engineering, Mansoura University
Accepted 15 July 2015
It was the day Egypt's security forces used automatic weapons, armored
personal carriers and military bulldozers to raid and crush a month-long
sit-in protest by thousands of supporters of former Egyptian President
Mohammed Morsy. According to a yearlong Human Rights Watch investigation
released this week, at least 817 people were killed. Six weeks earlier,
Morsy had been removed from power in a popular military coup led by his
then-defense secretary, Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Morsy's supporters
immediately took to the streets, protesting the removal of Egypt's first
democratically elected president. The heart of the demonstrations was
Rabaa Al-Adawiya, a mosque in eastern Cairo where tens of thousands of
demonstrators gathered, occupying the building and an adjacent square.
For weeks, Egyptian authorities ordered demonstrators to leave, then
threatened to raid the massive sit-in that had mushroomed into a small
town; it included a makeshift barbershop and a kitchen that prepared
thousands of ready-to-eat meals. But Morsy supporters wouldn't budge.
Many had brought their families, even their children. This was their
Tahrir Square. Cite This Article As: Ibrahim AAAA (2015). Rabba massacre and the military coup of Egypt. Acad. Res. J. Hist. Cult. 1(2): 27-32
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