Egypt, the ruling military council Chief Field Marshal Hussein said,
the country is facing unprecedented grave dangers but the military will
protect it. In a statement today, Tantawi called on Egyptians to foil
the schemes and conspiracies against Egypt. He said armed forces will
hand over the reins to an elected civilian administration. Experts say
the remarks are aimed at rallying public opinion against a series of
protests in the run up to completion of one year of overthrow of Mubarak
regime. The activists have planned a series of protests to mark next
week’s first anniversary of the start of the uprising. The Egyptian
Government has launched a media campaign warning of a plot to
destabilize the nation on the anniversary.
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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