Crackdown on Morsi loyalists kills 525
16 Aug 2013 5:54 AM IST
Egypt’s defiant Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday vowed to bring down the military-backed government as it called for a massive anti-regime rally, a day after over 525 people were killed in the deadliest crackdown by security forces on supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
The health ministry said the death toll from nationwide violence in Egypt has climbed to 525, making it the bloodiest day since the Arab Spring in 2011 toppled longtime President Hosni Mubarak in a popular uprising.
‘We will always be non-violent and peaceful. We remain strong, defiant and resolved,’ Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad wrote on his Twitter feed.
‘We will push (forward) until we bring down this military coup,’ he added.
Nationwide protests erupted yesterday after the crackdown by security forces on supporters of 62-year-old Morsi in Cairo and elsewhere killed hundreds of people. The protesters were demanding reinstatement of Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, who was deposed by the army on 3 July.
Meanwhile, Brotherhood has said it planned to march in the capital, Cairo, against the crackdown that, it claimed, left 2,000 people dead.
‘Marches are planned this afternoon from Al-Iman mosque to protest the deaths,’ the Islamist group said in a statement even as the country remained in a state of emergency.
The health ministry said the death toll from nationwide violence in Egypt has climbed to 525, making it the bloodiest day since the Arab Spring in 2011 toppled longtime President Hosni Mubarak in a popular uprising.
‘We will always be non-violent and peaceful. We remain strong, defiant and resolved,’ Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad wrote on his Twitter feed.
‘We will push (forward) until we bring down this military coup,’ he added.
Nationwide protests erupted yesterday after the crackdown by security forces on supporters of 62-year-old Morsi in Cairo and elsewhere killed hundreds of people. The protesters were demanding reinstatement of Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, who was deposed by the army on 3 July.
Meanwhile, Brotherhood has said it planned to march in the capital, Cairo, against the crackdown that, it claimed, left 2,000 people dead.
‘Marches are planned this afternoon from Al-Iman mosque to protest the deaths,’ the Islamist group said in a statement even as the country remained in a state of emergency.
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