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Over a one hundred people (100) people had been killed in Cairo with over 1,500 injured during a protest supporting ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi according to doctors in the Egyptian capital. However official government figures had put the death toll at 38. The BBC's Jim Muir in Cairo reported "bullets were whizzing past my ears," when he arrived at the Pro Morsi protest camp at Nasr City mosque . According to him, "Today was just brutal - people were fired at, with live firearms."
The anti-Morsi camp which had occupied Cairo's Tahrir Square at the behest of the army chief, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who had urged people to demonstrate to provide a mandate for the military intervention were well protected by the military.
Point 1.
Isn't it curious that the supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi were dying in the hundreds whereas supporters of the military junta that ousted a democratically elected president are well protected and not recording even a single death from bullet?
Point 2.
Isn't it curious that the Western nations particularly the USA who had expounded the values democracy appear to be muted to the atrocities going on in Egypt? Or rather at the trumping or illegal overthrow of a democratically elected government?
Point 3.
Isn't it curious that the Western nations and particularly the USA which had berated Russia for supplying arms to the Asad regime to fuel the conflict in Syria are in effect doing exactly what they are accusing the Russians of doing in Syria by going ahead with the supply of military hardware to the Egyptian military at this sensitive time?
What do you think Africans?
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