By: Mohamed S. Kamel*
@mskamel
September 2nd,
2014
“In July and August 2013, many of Egypt’s public
squares and streets were awash in blood. On July 3rd, 2013, the
military deposed Mohamed Morsy, Egypt’s first elected civilian president…who
had come to power through democratic elections one year earlier…” this is what Human
Right Watch reported[1]
on what happened in Egypt on August 14th, 2013, before and after when
the special forces moved on to disperse the peaceful sit-in in protest against
the Military Coup.
This report and other reports spoke clearly with
evidence about facts that could not be denied.
Protests were completely peaceful and police and army Special Forces
used excessive forces to kill the most they can, then arrested and tortured the
remaining, be them women or children didn’t make different. Labelling Muslim
Brotherhood (MB) terrorist group without evidence, and all pro-democracy became
MBs and terrorists by association.
Human Right Watch and other human right groups
called this massacre, the worst mass killing by the own people’s army. The 195 pages
Human Rights Watch report concluded that the Rab’a massacre was a
premeditated assault equal to, or worse, than China's Tiananmen Square massacre
in 1989. "This wasn't a case of security forces pinpointing
particular armed elements within the demonstration, and having collateral
damage as a result," says Omar Shakir, the HRW lawyer and
researcher who wrote most of the report. "This was a plan that
envisioned opening fire on crowds – tens of thousands of largely peaceful
protesters – for hours on end without safe exit."[2]
Are we to remain silent and stand against people’s
ambitions and support military coups?
Examples are several, as 1953’s removal of the democratically elected
Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran, and 1973’s removal of the democratically elected
Salvador Allende in Chil.
While this new tyrant infanticides the new born
democracy in Egypt, ISIS is being born in Iraq and Syria, as if we are not
concerned at all with the environment that is creating these types of
movements. Without justification, are these groups a reaction to a sort of
injustice or are they being created to execute a hidden agenda?[3]
The Report recommended to the UN Members states:
·
Establish through the UN
Human Rights Council an international commission of inquiry to investigate all
human rights violations resulting from the mass killings of protesters since
June 30th, 2013. The inquiry should be mandated to establish the
facts, identify those responsible with a view to ensuring that the perpetrators
of violations are held accountable, as well as collect and conserve information
related to abuses for future use by credible judicial institutions. Ensure that
the mandate is sufficiently broad to cover past and future acts and other human
rights abuses committed by Egyptian security forces, as well as violence by
protesters.
·
Suspend all sales and
provision of security-related items and assistance to Egypt until the
government adopts measures to end serious human rights violations, such as
those related to suppression of largely peaceful demonstrations, and to holding
rights violators accountable.
·
Under the principle of
universal jurisdiction and in accordance with national laws, investigate and
prosecute those implicated in serious crimes under international law committed
in Egypt in July-August 2013.
This report identifies the most
senior security officials and key leaders in the chain of command who should be
investigated and, where there is evidence of responsibility, held individually
accountable for the planning and execution or failing to prevent the widespread
and systematic killings of protesters during July-August 2013, among them,
then-Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
This same Sisi who became the de facto president of
Egypt a year later. The Rab’a story is still
an everyday story in every city and village in Egypt. So who will stand for rights? And, who will
indicate Sisi?
* Mohamed S. Kamel: is a Freelance writer, the editor of http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/, he is a professional
engineer, a LEED Green Associate and a recognized project manager professional,
he is Member of several civil society organizations, a co-founder, member of
the executive committee and a spokesperson of The Egyptian Revolutionary
Counsel (ERC), a co-founder of
the
Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy (ECCD-CECD(,
Egyptian Worldwide for Democracy and
Justice (EW4DJ), Canadian Egyptian for Democracy (CEFD), National Association for
Change in Egypt (Taghyeer – Canada), Association of the Egyptians of Montreal
(AEM), Alternative Perspective Media (APM-RAM), , Quebec Antiwar movement “Échec
à la Guerre”, Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine “CJPP”, ex-president
and co-founder of the Canadian Muslim Forum (CMF), member of the board of
trustee in the Canadian Muslim for Palestine (CMP) and Community Center for
Montreal Muslims (CCMM). He could be reached at public@mohamedkamel.com and followed at @mskamel
My articles that related to the situation in Egypt, in English and
Arabic:
23 يوليو 2014
وسقطت مصر
July 06, 2014
Alastair Campbell from the Iraqi Lie To the
Destruction of Egypt
Introduction by: Mohamed Kamel
June
30, 2014
My Ramadan Message to all Human Beings
رسالة رمضان لكل الانسانية
June 21, 2014
Whose road is ISIL (ISIS)?
14 يونيو 2014
حلم الجيش
العربي
25 مايو 2014
المسرحية الهزلية
20 ابريل 2014
29
يناير 2014
السيسي ليس ناصر (مجدته أو رفضته)
10 يناير 2014
وثيقة الانقلاب الغير شرعية: لا
نقاطعها وحسب، بل نرفضها كليا
31 ديسمبر 2013
فرعون موسى
A joined op-ed with Dena
Kamel to the Globe and Mail
December 30, 2013
What
constitution you are speaking about…!
1 ديسمبر 2013
رسالة لمصري مونتريال(2)
29
نوفمبر 2013
رسالة لمصري مونتريال
سؤال وجواب بين ناصر والاخوان
27 أكتوبر 2013
14 سبتمبر 2013
أمن المنطق أن نؤيد الانقلاب...!
26
يوليو 2013
هل شاء يونيو أن يكون شهر الانتكاسات؟
30
يونيو 2013
عفواً مصر...فهذه هي الثورة المضادة
25 يونيو 2013
استحضار عمر سليمان رجل المخابرات
الأمريكية الأول في المنطقة
3 يونيو 2013
خواطر في حب مصر!
9
إبريل 2013
بمن تستقوون على من؟
1 إبريل
2013
مرسي
والمعارضة
1 فبراير
2013
هم
مجموعه من المخربين...!
27 يناير 2013
من هم القتلة؟
26 يناير 2013
ما بين الوطنية والانتهازية
January 25, 2013
Thought and Reflection, 2 years after
Egyptian Revolution
“When leftists support
The Muslim Brotherhood”
14 ديسمبر 2012
مغالطات وأكاذيب تشاع عن الدستور
2 ديسمبر 2012
لنقرأ الدستور ثم نقرر
23 نوفمبر 2012
كلما أصاب غضبوا..... أهم أبناء مبارك؟
23 يوليو 2012
لقد رحل رجل المخابرات الأمريكية الأول في المنطقة
30 يونيو 2012
بداية رؤية الضوء
17 يونيو 2012
مبروك لمصر، ولكن المعركة طويلة
15 يونيو 2012
معا ننتخب منقذ مصر، صديق أمريكا وإسرائيل
14 يونيو 2012
نداء أخير إلى كل شرفاء مصر
4 يونيو 2012
الحكم على مبارك والجولة الثانية للانتخابات
25 مايو 2012
قراءه في نتيجة الانتخاب، من ينتصر؟.. الثورة أم عبيد مبارك؟
23 مايو 2012
اليوم.......... مصر تنتخب
26 ابريل 2012
لماذا سأنتخب أبو الفتوح؟
11 ابريل 2012
من يصلح رئيسا لمصر؟
9 ابريل 2012
رسالة مفتوحه لرئيس مصر: كرامة الإنسان المصري
2 ابريل 2012
رئيسا لمصر
24 يناير
2012
كل
عام
ومصر
بخير
January 20th, 2012
A year of a great revolution
22 نوفمبر 2011
المراهقة السياسية
November 19th, 2011
In the name of the revolution they are killing it
October 22nd, 2011
Revolution to build, not to revenge
23 يوليو 2011
لا تجهضوا الثورة
June 12th, 2011
The Arab Spring- a real people revolution
2 يونيو 2011
الثورة المصرية بن الحلم و الواقع
April 3rd, 2011
Palestine and the Egyptian Revolution
March 4, 2011
الشعب يريد تطهير البلاد... كل البلاد
February 13th, 2011
It is a Revolution that is changing the face of the Middle East
23 يناير 2011
الخوف..والوهن..ولقمه العيش في عيد الشرطة
January 15, 2011
و... لتكن تونس والسودان عظة لمصر
January 8th, 2011
(Witten on December 10, 2010)
Is this Egypt that we knew?
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