Dr. Khalid Al-Shafi
It was a day when blood and flowers mixed in a tragic manner. Shaimaa Sabri Al Sabbagh, a young Egyptian woman, went out to participate in a peaceful demonstration to express an idea that is considered legitimate all over the world, except in Egypt. As a result, Shaimaa returned as a lifeless body. Her voice was silenced forever. This is what happened in Egypt last week when it marked the fourth anniversary of the country’s revolution.
Shaimaa was walking with some of her friends carrying flowers to honour the martyrs of January revolution in Tahrir Square when she received bullets in her head and back, which lacerated her lungs, and she fell into the hands of her husband. She was taken to the nearest hospital but pronounced dead.
The killing of this girl coincided with the anniversary of the aborted revolution, after the military regained the power, after the General changed his military uniform, and after the acquittal of former president Hosni Mubarak and seven security leaders wo were charged with killing 800 peaceful protesters during the revolution, and all this under the pretext of ‘lack of evidences’. This also came after the acquittal of Mubarak’s sons (Gamal and Alaa) over corruption and misuse of public funds.
They were freed while an innocent woman was killed.
This is what happens when police officers charged with killing demonstrators are released and revolution leaders imprisoned. In addition, supporters of former president Mohamed Mursi were accused of terrorism. Around 15,000 of them were arrested in an open war of revenge.
Day after day, anger is rising in Egypt. The confidence of people about their country’s future is shrinking and there is no political will to deal with the current challenges. The media continues to remain suppressed. Al Jazeera’s Australian reporter Peter Greste was released but his two colleagues still remain in prison.Does all this indicate a third revolution is on the horizon?
The Peninsula
