ERC: O’Obama.. Coup plants terrorism and extremism
The President of the United States
The White House
1600
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington DC
The United States of America
Mr.
President,
I am
writing on behalf of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council on the occasion of the
Countering Violent Extremism summit in the White House.
Our
contention is a simple one. The reason terrorism finds appeal among a minority
in the Middle East is in no small part due to the region’s autocratic regimes
that they themselves in oppressing their citizens effectively employ terrorist
tactics. The aborted Arab Spring was the first real blow against terrorism in
the region, and which regrettably has been reversed.
We
represent a coalition of pro democracy groups and individuals from Egypt who
like your founding fathers believe that all of us are endowed with certain
unalienable rights among which are the rights to life and liberty.
The
election of Pres
ident
Morsi in the first free and fair elections in the region was an attempt by
Egyptians to enact the dictum that “to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed”.
In
considering extremism, we therefore urge you to consider the extremism of a
despotic state such as that of General Sisi and the disastrous effect it has,
and will have on the region for decades to come. Both Human Rights Watch and
Amnesty International report that the regime has murdered thousands of innocent
unarmed protestors. Both accept that the regime has imprisoned thousands of
dissidents. There are well documented cases of torture and more horrifyingly of
rape of dissidents, including children. The freedom of the press and of association
has been abolished while the State controlled Media is openly inciting towards
sectarian and civil violence.
What
is more worrying, the utter failure of the regime to provide any semblance of
stability or development has pushed the general towards dangerous military
adventures in Libya.
Unless
democracy is restored and quickly, the legacy of General Sisi will be a deeply
divided society, governed by a corrupt elite and which rules its citizens with
an oppression that has more to do with totalitarian states than a 21st century
one. That on its own is a recipe for fostering extremism. However, General
Sisi’s adventurism in Libya is an additional danger.
We
therefore ask you to consider the following: General Sisi’s government is
purposely using terror as a method of government, and their actions which
include murder, imprisonment; torture and rape mark them as terrorists.
Moreover, in his attempt to hold on to power against popular will, he is sowing
seeds that might develop into extremism that may come to haunt us for years to
come, within Egypt and along its borders.
As such the Sisi government is dangerous, destabilising and is
quickly becoming itself a core source of extremism in the region and by its
actions an instigator of terrorism.
Yours
Sincerely,
Maha
Azzam
Head
of The Egyptian Revolutionary Council
For more information, please contact the spokes people
For them;
Mohamed S. Kamel
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