The Egyptian Revolutionary Council
The ERC is an organization that has brought together
Egyptian citizens and movements abroad, irrespective of their political or
ideological affiliations. We share in common, a belief in the principles of the
January 25th Revolution, and work towards achieving its aims. We oppose all
aspects of corruption and dictatorship in Egypt. We oppose the military coup
and all that ensued from it, and we refuse the interference of the military in
political life. We believe in constitutional legitimacy and work for the
establishment of a civil sate that reflects the will of the Egyptian people and
their freedom in choosing their government.
Background
The Egyptian Revolutionary Council was launched on August
8th 2014, one year after a military coup aborted Egypt’s nascent democracy, and
kidnapped its first freely and fairly elected President, Dr Mohammed Morsi.
We believe it is incumbent upon us, as Egyptians across the
world, to unite under a single umbrella in order to expose and stand up to the
crimes of Sisi’s military regime, as well as to work together to support the
resistance inside Egypt to achieve the goals of the January 25th Revolution for
Bread, Freedom, Social Justice and Human Dignity.
Aims
The ERC is a broad platform that represents different
political currents and invites all Egyptians, irrespective of their political
views, to work together to bring to an end the military regime, and to work to
establish a democratic and civil state that upholds the rule of law and
respects human rights.
We believe in working together for the political and
economic prosperity of the Egyptian people. A prosperity that cannot be
achieved under the kind of dictatorship, tyranny and corruption that manifests
itself through the current regime in Egypt.
The Current Situation
In its year in power, the coup regime has been responsible
for the murder of thousands of peaceful citizens and the imprisonment of over
40,000 dissidents. According to the HRW, the worst massacre in the modern
history of Egypt in Rab’a, was premeditated and the plans and orders came from
the highest levels of the state, from the current Head of State president Sisi, his Interior
minister, and other high level officials.
The military regime and its security services have committed
other massacres with impunity over the past year. As documented by western
human rights organisations, the Sisi regime systematically and intentionally
murders peaceful protestors, tortures prisoners and rapes women and children.
Our Position
The ERC rejects a regime that has divided the
Egyptian people, that seeks to justify the incarceration and murder of
political dissidents and encourages sectarianism.
We believe in an Egypt for all its citizens without
discrimination. We believe in an Egypt for all its citizens without
discrimination that has a reformed and independent judiciary, not one that is
the tool of the state, as evidenced by the sentencing of thousands of
dissidents to death in minutes, without due process. We believe in an Egypt
where the military serves its role as a defence force, and not as the de facto
ruler, as it has done since 1952, nor where it is major economic institution in
its own right, that controls over a quarter of the economy. We believe that
endemic corruption at every level has hindered the economic prosperity of Egypt
and resulted in an inequitable transfer of wealth from the state to a very
small elite that controls the country’s institutions. We therefore believe that
the corrupt state institutions need to be reformed root and branch. We believe
Egyptian citizens deserve a better health, education and social security system
that is not bled by the corrupt syphoning of resources to a klyptocratic elite We
believe all of Egypt’s citizens deserve democracy. We believe all of Egypt’s
citizens have the right to political participation and to demand accountability
from their government.
Our Operating Model
Through each office and member of the ERC we intend
to be the ambassadors and voice of free Egyptians and to echo the voice of the
resistance inside Egypt which refuses to accept dictatorship and tyranny.
The ECR will be working to combat the coup regime
through the following offices:
1. The Political and Diplomatic Bureau
2. The Human Rights Bureau
3. The Legal Bureau
4. The Media and Information Bureau
Each office will through its own expertise work to combat
and expose the military regime in Egypt. Each will work to build bridges with
governments, policy makers, parliamentarians, civil society and the public
across the world in order to create awareness of the extreme dangers of the
current coup regime to security and stability in Egypt and beyond; to demand a
change in policy towards a tyrannical regime and an end to political and
military aid to it.
In addition, the ECR will pursue all channels to
ensure that the perpetrators of crimes against civilians deemed to be crimes
against humanity are brought to justice through international law, as well as
document all crimes against civilians as a resource for a future prosecution of
the perpetrators in Egyptian courts, once democracy is restored.
The ECR will seek to galvanize support among
Egyptians living abroad (a broad base, among whom are educated professionals
who are well established in, and contributors to their host communities) and
seek to coordinate their activities and efforts in opposing the dictatorship in
Egypt.
Finally, the ECR will set out an alternative
political and economic vision for Egypt›s future built on consensus and
thorough studies with all political forces inside and outside Egypt who believe
in a civil state, democracy and the end of the military›s interference in
politics.
This will ensure that there is an orderly transfer to a
democratic society once the army’s hold on power is broken.
Conclusion
We will not give up our struggle for freedom and justice in
Egypt, and we call on all those who believe in the values of democracy and
justice to stand with us and take all necessary political, diplomatic and
economic action to condemn and isolate a dangerous dictatorship that kills its
own citizens and threatens regional stability and security.
Mohamed Sherif Kamel;
Spokesperson
Egyptian Revolutionary Council (ERC)
Democracy -Constitutionalism- Civil State
Could be reach at:
1-514-863-9202
