Egypt: 33 dead in Tahrir protests, as "Arab Spring" mirrored in bloody Fall

[Video Link, warning: graphic content.] Reuters reports: "Cairo police fought protesters demanding an end to army rule for a third day on Monday and morgue officials said the death toll had risen to 33, with many victims shot in the worst violence since the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak."

Below: Gotta love the cotton candy vendors who are still out there, peddling their fluffy pink wares, even as tear gas and live ammo are deployed against protesters by the military police.

(photographer/source unknown, via @acarvin and @sarahcarr).

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Yikes.
flagler23

At least the police didn’t use pepper spray. Otherwise I’d be tempted to yell “police state!”.
- alconnolly
  
  Haha flagler you made a funny. Trying to show a difference between Egypt and the US , you actually highlighted the many similarities.
  - Guest
    
    I think he was trying for a 3rd level.
DeargDoom

Last February Planet Money had a pretty good podcast on the relationship between Egypts military and the protesters, http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/10/133501837/why-egypts-military-cares-about-home-appliances

The people in the street want a democratic election where they can pick whoever they want to run the country. But the military, they dont really want a civilian to take its power… The military will not allow them (civilians) any sort of command or control position over themselves.
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- If the protests continue, you imagine Mubarak will go but the system he has come to personify in the minds of the protesters, that’s not going anywhere?
- Absolutely.

Also mentioned is this cable which predicts the military’s inevitable fall from power, http://wikileaks.org/cable/2008/09/08CAIRO2091.html
http://meterandmath.wordpress.com Meter Andmath

Sick of f*cking A$$holes.
Mister44

What the hell was a mime doing out there?

Also – cotton candy is tasty.
mattatlaw

cut-me-own-throat dibbler! or rather, Al-Jiblah!
- Trent Hawkins
  
  that would be the Cut-Me-Own-Hand-Off Dyblah, verity I beliave.
Guest

The reports I heard, of APCs driving recklessly THROUGH the crowds… are chilling.
David Germanico

They have got cotton candy and popcorn. What do you have, UC? What do YOU have?
Radka

My god that’s shocking… I can’t imagine how a person can justify doing that to another person. Sad, sad.
Radka

By the way, the cotton candy image kinda doesn’t go with the whole police mercilessly dragging people by their hair and hitting non-responsive and/or dead people lying on the ground in the face. It’s a unicorn chaser that’s one post too close…
imag

I hope Occupiers stand in solidarity with the Egyptians, as they did for us. This is horrifying.