Tahrir 22-23 November 2011

">why Tahrir now? expect yes.. but what happened.. does anyone know? many of us who went to Tahrir were asking that question.. how and why it all started? the response was.. many of us didn't go to Tahrir on kandahar's Friday.. not our call... nothing happened .. everyone I talked to confirmed that Friday night- satuday morning around 100-200 people decided to stay in the square.. some arre just regular demonstrators and some were the injured or the families of the martyrs of the 25th of January.. eveything in the square was normal.. traffic and all.. the all of a sudden they found themselves in a cordon by the security forces and they started to make phone calls to tell their friends, either come for rescue or don't come but I may perish in a while...
a bit by bit the number started to increase in the square to fight back the brutality of the security forces.. more and more people saw, heard or knew from friends what was going on and decided to go down.. that was the situation until Sunday night.. yet, we are still talking about few thousands... Sunday evening in my classes, I've found out one of my students got hurt, 3 others were in Tahrir on Saturday night.. we discussed what was going on and all of a sudden a student from a class next door told us that fighting erupts in Tahrir and there are news that the bridge has been closed.. I decided to stop lecturing and bring to the screen live coverage from Tahrir, we talked about what is going on and most of the students were on one side.. what is happening is inhumane.. nothing has changed since February and I told them this is the second wave of the revolution.. couldn't continue with lecturing and decided to let them go few minutes earlier than the class time.
on my way home, I talked to few cousins, old students about what was going on in Tahrir and wanted to get a live picture of what ESA going on on the ground.. they were between the square and Mohamed Mahmoud street. all confirmed, the square is ok.. the security forces try on and off to barge in but the youth in mohamed Mahmoud and falaky are banning them from reaching the square.. Tear gas, rubber bullet, khartoush and sometimes live ammunition were used.
I was so tired to go on Sunday night, but I managed to join in Monday and Tuesday evenings- nights.. experienced not only tear gas but this weird effect of burning face, eyes and running on and off when there are warnings of raids by the security forces towards the square.. tried to donnate blood at last el3einy hospital failed big time... the aftermath of the experience so far is as follows:
1. egyptians when they want to do good they can.
2. political elite together with the army are damaging the country.
3. inhumanity is engraved in the mentality of the security forces ( brutality in beating, snipers on top of buildings, shooting the small little spot used as hospital next to mohamed Mahmoud street around 3 times in one night to ensure more death toll only takes place in Israel! now in Cairo...and other forms of inhumane treatment that seems to be an asset to them)..members of state security tried to access the square armed from locations they know they might not be searched, but they got captured.
4. media effect in distortion is amazing, the fight is ongoing and continuing in mohamed Mahmoud to prevent the security forces from reaching Tahrir, yet.. media is talking about the reason in a different context.. they're fighting in that street because they want to barge in the ministry of interior headquarters which is located in the same street.. Monday night/ Tuesday morning at 2am.. all members of the ministry withdrew all of a sudden... so, protesters started to take over, created a cordon around the premises of the ministry to prevent anyone from attacking it or barging into it.
5. some people claiming to be the honest people of abdin joined the security forces in the fight, while capturing one of them.. the revolutionaries found out that he was a member of the security forces (amin shorta)
6. tear gas and the gas that have been used today have a grave effect, burning in the eyes, skin, feelings of suffocation and dire need of fresh air.
7. it is true that the gas that has been used for 2 or 3 days now aginst the protectors is use in Chemical warfare. some of my cousins are scientists and they took the canisters and the remaining of some ammunition to the labs and they foud out that they contained CRS ( that is the abbreivaition they used). this material is one enlisted on the dual items list that can be used in chemical weapons.
8. crimes against humanity not only humane rights violations are taking place on the hands of the security apparatus in Egypt. I'm not
specifying the police forces because they work in tendem and under directives of SCAF .. so I consider them one unit.
9. the US will keep losing further ground with the Egyptian people by supporting SCAF tonight, together with those elite in egypt, who ignored condemning what is going on in Tahrir and putting demonstrators with no weapons on the same footing with those using traditional and WMD against them!
god bless egypt with the Egyptians who are the real asset to this country when they appreciate that they belong to Egypt and Egypt belongs to them.