unbelievable!! this is shocking!!!! It was just 4:00pm when all the basement and first floor became completely covered with bodies of dead and injured. I also learnt that the situation in the floors above was similar. There were ambulances trying to move patients out through the backdoor of the hospital. I think they managed to transfer only 5% of those who needed surgical procedures. Soon, the situation became a real tragedy, with us failing to deal with all the wounded protesters coming in. We focused on the cases that had any chance of surviving, however small. All the hospital floors were now packed with injured protesters sitting in pools of thick shiny blood as new patients made their way carefully through the crowded space. I worked like non-stop. All the while, I just could not believe I lived to see this happening in my country. I volunteered at Tahrir Square field-hospital back in January 2011. But that was nothing like this massacre of Rabaa. I had no time to take photographs of the patients as I tried to save whatever lives I could. Soon the smell of death was everywhere. My clothes were completely covered in blood. At 5:00pm, a sniper’s bullets targeted the hospital’s door once again, destroying it completely. Then, the sound of gunfire became very intense and close. Half an hour later, bullets were shot inside the emergency reception room which was filled with medical teams and injured patients. Terror swept the hospital and everybody became trapped inside. Ten minutes later, police officers broke into the hospital. They looked huge with black special-unit uniforms, and wielded huge guns that I had never seen before. They ordered everybody to evacuate the hospital. We wondered what we had to do with hundreds of injured inside who were still alive and whether we could trust those officers. However, soon we were rushed right out of the hospital building. As I left the hospital, I told one of the officers that there were many injured people inside. He shouted in my face “let them die, let them die”! He then walked towards me with his huge gun with ferocity and intent, trying to attack me. Fortunately, I managed to escape through the hospital’s smashed glass door and the vicious officer got busy with others going outside the opposite section. Outside the hospital, there was a very horrible scene – corpses littered the streets and fire burnt wildly everywhere. I walked close to walls, with colleagues following behind me. Security forces fired their guns at us. But I was not sure whether anybody was killed. ....
Posted on: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:10:40 +0000
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