Your letters: The political crisis in Egypt | Readers Forum | Thu, August 15 2013, 10:49 AM Readers Forum Egypt’s gang of usurpers, popularly known by its supporters, local and foreign, as “interim government”, has declared that foreign mediation has failed. These efforts were bound to fail because the real aim of these foreign “dignitaries” was not to redress the grave injustice: Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah El-Sessi’s illegal power-grab by deposing and arresting the legally elected president, Mohamed Mursi, and his government officials and replacing the legitimate government with opportunists and puppets who are prepared to dance to the tunes set by El-Sessi. Nearly 300 Egyptians, most of them Mursi supporters, have been killed in the process already, with 80 of them shot dead by security forces on July 27, and by the look of it, even worse massacres of Mursi supporters could follow, landing the country in a civil war because the criminals passing for Egyptian “government” have announced, through their 77-year-old puppet Hazem el-Biblawi, known as interim prime minister but actually a mouth-piece of Gen. El-sessi, that the diplomacy phase has ended and that the government’s decision to dismantle the protest camps was final and its patience had nearly expired. Announcing the demise of the mediation efforts, US Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, said, “This remains a very fragile situation, which holds not only the risk of more bloodshed and polarization in Egypt, but also impedes the economic recovery, which is so essential for Egypt’s successful transition.” The biased view of the foreign delegates can be gauged by the fact that very many of them are not prepared to call Gen. El-Sessi’s overthrow of a legally elected government a military coup, which is what it was. Meanwhile, some more ardent supporters of military rule in Egypt have called the move a course-correction for the revolution that will strengthen democracy. Just imagine the lengths to which these self-professed lovers of democracy can go to justify their immoral stand. It is also surprising as to how the brave Egyptian people — who took a united stand against a military dictator of 32 years and managed to throw him out, establishing a democratic government — have so easily fallen into the trap laid by another military dictator. As for the professed democracy-loving Western governments and their leaders, they would love it since they are much happier and far more comfortable with dictatorships because in such a set up, they have to deal with, and perhaps buy, only one person. Instead of allowing another dictator to get deeply entrenched and then making all those sacrifices once again to get rid of him, would it not be better for El-Sessi supporters to join hands with Mursi, and together try to improve things for all of them? I think supporters and opponents of Mursi would do well to join hands and sort out their problems through negotiations, send the puppet government packing, and the army back to the barracks, with Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sessi given an early discharge at least Democracy won after huge sacrifices should not be thrown away in such a casual and thoughtless manner. S.R.H. Hashmi Karachi
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 04:37:07 +0000
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