Death Toll in Egypt: Edited to reflect newest numbers: official # now 638

Last edited Thu Aug 15, 2013, 05:16 PM - Edit history (1)

The death toll from Egypt’s bloody crackdown on supporters of the deposed president, Mohamed Morsi, soared beyond 500 across the land on Thursday with more than 3,700 people injured, the Health Ministry said, in a further sign of the extent and the ferocity of Wednesday’s scorched-earth assault by security forces to raze two pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo.

Despite the growing tally of dead, however, Muslim Brotherhood supporters of Mr. Morsi urged followers to take to the streets on Thursday, a day after the assault on the camps set off a violent backlash across Egypt and underscored the new government’s determination to crush the Islamists who dominated the free elections over the past two years.

Mohamad Fathallah, the Health Ministry spokesman, told the official Al Ahram Web site that the toll so far stood at 525 with 3,717 injured. He said the biggest concentration of killings, numbering 202, had been in the larger of the two protest camps in Nasr City suburb, with 87 recorded in the smaller Nahda Square camp near Cairo University. A further 29 deaths were reported from the Helwan area on the outskirts of Cairo with 207 from other areas around the country.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/world/middleeast/egypt.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

The only reasonable conclusion is that Al-Sisi wanted exactly this order of mayhem and murder in order to to install the draconian state of emergency that existed under Mubarak and that is what he did. He knew that the reaction from some of the MB and their supporters would be violent retaliation. There was never any intent on his part to transition to democracy. He's a strong man of the worst kind.

And a vile murdering fuck.

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/08/14/bloodshed-in-egypt-95-dead-as-military-govt-clears-pro-morsi-camps/