Di sebalik penghadang: Masjid Kaherah di bawah kepungan, bertukar menjadi mayat-mayat . . .

MADAyuMadyan - Di sebalik penghadang: Masjid Kaherah di bawah kepungan, bertukar menjadi mayat. Di Mesir, berdiri-terus antara penunjuk perasaan yang bersembunyi di sebuah masjid dan pasukan keselamatan berterusan. 

Beratus-ratus telah mengurung diri mereka di dalam bangunan dan enggan untuk keluar banyak yang takut ditangkap. Puluhan telah dilihat meninggalkan masjid bagaimanapun dan terdapat laporan tembakan juga. Bel Trew laporan.

Behind Barricades: Cairo mosque under siege, turned into morgue. In Egypt, the standoff between protesters who are holed up in a mosque and security forces continues. Hundreds have barricaded themselves in the building and are refusing to come out over fear of arrest. Dozens were seen leaving the mosque however and there have been reports of gunfire too. Bel Trew reports.

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Ahli-ahli Ikhwan Muslimin dan penyokong bekas Presiden Mesir, Mohamed Mursi berarak dalam bantahan terhadap Ramses Square di Kaherah 16 Ogos 2013. (Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi march in protest towards Ramses Square in Cairo August 16, 2013. (Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommuity)

Janji Persaudaraan Minggu Protes, tentera Mesir bertujuan 

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MADAyuMadyan - (RT. Published Ogos 17, 2013) Penyokong Presiden Mohamed Morsi yang digulingkan memanggil selama seminggu bantahan selepas 3 hari pertempuran dengan pasukan keselamatan meninggalkan ratusan mati. Keganasan di Mesir telah dikutuk oleh Barat, tetapi kuasa-kuasa serantau berpecah disebabkan krisis.

Morsi Ikhwan Muslimin membawa berpuluh-puluh ribu orang ke jalan-raya di seluruh negara berikutan tradisional solat Islam dalam apa yang dipanggil "Friday Of Rage." Di Kaherah dan bandar-bandar lain pertempuran meletus.

Secara keseluruhannya, lebih daripada 100 orang terbunuh Jumaat di Mesir, termasuk beberapa polis dan anggota pasukan keselamatan, menjadikan jumlah kematian rasmi daripada keganasan kepada lebih daripada 700 sejak Rabu lepas, apabila pasukan keselamatan mengusir 2yang  besar pro-Morsi kem-kem ‘Sit-in di Kaherah. Tindakan keras itu adalah episod yang paling teruk keganasan di negara ini dalam beberapa dekad, mencetuskan kecaman dari beberapa organisasi antarabangsa dan kerajaan asing.

Ikhwan telah dipanggil untuk demonstrasi bantahan untuk meneruskan setiap hari untuk minggu depan.

“Penolakan kami rejim rampasan kuasa telah menjadi satu kewajipan Islam, negara dan etika yang kita tidak boleh meninggalkan,” Ikhwan itu dalam satu kenyataan.

Beratus-ratus penyokong pro-Morsi mengurung diri di dalam masjid El Fath di pusat Ramses Square Kaherah, di mana konfrontasi besar dengan polis itu berlaku hari Jumaat. Polis sekitar masjid, mengatakan bahawa mereka akan membiarkan wanita dan kanak-kanak meninggalkan, tetapi mahu mengambil penunjuk perasaan lelaki ke dalam jagaan untuk soal siasat. Penunjuk perasaan enggan syarat-syarat ini dan kekal di dalamnya pada pagi Sabtu.

Polis dan penunjuk perasaan di dalam masjid yang masih meneruskan rundingan untuk resolusi yang mungkin tetap-pendirian. Tetapi kebimbangan kekal tinggi bahawa pasukan keselamatan akhirnya boleh menyerbu bangunan, yang berkemungkinan akan menyebabkan lebih banyak kecederaan.

Brotherhood pledges week of protest, Egypt’s military seeks regional support. Supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi are calling for a week of protests after three days of clashes with security forces left hundreds dead. The violence in Egypt has been condemned by the West, but regional powers are split over the crisis.

Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood brought tens of thousands of people to the streets across the country following traditional Muslim prayers in what it called a “Friday of Rage.” In Cairo and other cities violent clashes erupted.

Overall, more than 100 people were killed Friday across Egypt, including some police and members of the security forces, bringing the official death toll from the violence to more than 700 since Wednesday, when security forces evicted two large pro-Morsi sit-in camps in Cairo. The crackdown was the worst episode of violence in the country in decades, triggering condemnation from a number of international organizations and foreign governments.

The Brotherhood has called for protest demonstrations to continue every day for the next week.

"Our rejection of the coup regime has become an Islamic, national and ethical obligation that we can never abandon," the Brotherhood said in a statement.

Hundreds of pro-Morsi supporters barricaded themselves in the El Fath mosque in central Cairo’s Ramses Square, where a major confrontation with the police took place Friday. Police are surrounding the mosque, saying that they would let women and children leave, but want to take male protesters into custody for questioning. The protesters refused these conditions and remained inside as of Saturday morning.

Police and protesters in the mosque are continuing negotiations for a possible resolution of the stand-off. But fears remain high that security forces may eventually storm the building, which would likely cause more casualties.

Seorang penyokong Ikhwan Muslimin Presiden Mohamed Morsi yang digulingkan berjalan lalu kenderaan yang terbakar semasa pertempuran dengan pegawai keselamatan berdekatan dengan Ramses Square di Kaherah, pada 16 Ogos, 2013. (A supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and of ousted president Mohamed Morsi runs past a burning vehicle during clashes with security officers close to Cairo's Ramses Square, on August 16, 2013. (AFP Photo/Virgnie Nguyen Hoang – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommuity)

Keselamatan Mesir memaksa menahan lebih daripada 1,000 orang semasa protes Jumaat, banyak daripada mereka bersenjata, kata polis. Lebih daripada separuh daripada tangkapan dibuat di ibu negara. Jalan-raya di Kaherah adalah tenang dalam sekelip mata, seperti polis, interim militia pro-kerajaan dan permahati kejiranan (neighborhood watche) berusaha untuk menguatkuasakan perintah berkurung senja ke subuh.

Sebagai berdiri- terus, kedua-dua pihak sedang mencari untuk perhimpunan penyokong kepada perjuangan mereka. TV negeri Mesir telah menggambarkan pemimpin protes sebagai pengganas berbahaya berkomplot terhadap negara ini, dan rakaman daripada pertempuran di Kaherah menunjukkan orang menembak senjata api pada polis.

Laporan lain berkata penyokong Morsi roket digunakan dalam serangan ke atas sebuah bangunan kerajaan di El Arish, sebuah bandar di Semenanjung Sinai yang bergelora, dan cuba untuk menembak jatuh sebuah helikopter tentera terbang di atas Kaherah.

Coptic Christian Church Mesir mengeluarkan kenyataan pada hari Jumaat, berkata ia menyokong tindakan keras pada Ikhwan Muslimin. Kenyataan itu datang selepas banyak laporan serangan ke atas gereja-gereja Kristian di seluruh negara.

Ikhwan Muslimin telah menuduh tentera menggunakan kuasa maut sembarangan terhadap demonstrasi secara aman, dan telah menuduh polis menghantar ‘provocateurs’ bersenjata ke dalam barisan penunjuk perasaan.

Blogger anti-tentera di rangkaian sosial mendakwa bahawa unit tentera telah berpaling tadah ke tepi penunjuk perasaan Jumaat mengambil kenderaan berperisai dengan mereka. Tentera menafikan laporan itu sebagai satu khabar angin yang tidak berasas yang datang dari penunjuk perasaan “imaginasi yang sakit.”

Pembunuhan di Mesir telah dikutuk oleh ramai di Barat, termasuk Kesatuan Eropah dan kerajaan Amerika Syarikat. Washington membatalkan latihan ketenteraan utama bersama dengan Mesir bagi menunjukkan rasa tidak puas hati dengan tindakan keras tentera, tetapi berhenti pendek memotong bantuan ketenteraan tahunan sebanyak $ 1.3 bilion pada Negara itu. Britain dan Perancis dipanggil mesyuarat tergempar EU menteri luar pada hari Jumaat untuk membincangkan “langkah-langkah yang sesuai” sebagai reaksi kepada keganasan. Beberapa negara-negara Amerika Latin balik duta mereka ke Mesir.

Reaksi di DUNIA Arab telah berpecah ke arah krisis Mesir. Turki, yang sederhana kerajaan Islam adalah mesra ke arah Ikhwan Muslimin, mengkritik tindakan keras dan dipanggil dari latihan ketenteraan bersama dengan Mesir. Kritikan juga datang dari Qatar dan Tunisia, manakala Iran menyuarakan kebimbangan bahawa keganasan akan merebak.

Perkataan Sokongan-kuat untuk tindakan keras keselamatan pada pembangkang Mesir datang Jumaat dari Arab Saudi, sebuah negara yang diperintah oleh seorang raja Islam. Raja Abdullah meminta orang-orang Arab untuk berdiri bersama-sama menentang “Cubaan untuk menjejaskan kestabilan” Mesir dan menyokong penggunaan istilah “pengganas” untuk menggambarkan penunjuk perasaan Ikhwan.

Sokongan Arab telah dicerminkan oleh Emiriyah Arab Bersatu, satu lagi raja teluk. UAE Raja Abdullah berkata dalam satu kenyataan dia berdiri terhadap “Orang-orang yang berminat sehingga api kebencian dan (berfikir bahawa) huru-hara akan menggalakkan kemenangan Mesir, Islam dan Arabisme,” kata Bersatu agensi berita WAP.

Kenyataan yang serupa kelulusan datang dari Bahrain dan Jordan.

Di bandar Tebing Barat Hebron, satu demonstrasi pro-Morsi dianjurkan oleh pergerakan Hamas yang radikal telah tersebar oleh pasukan keselamatan tempatan dikawal oleh pergerakan Fatah sederhana, yang berlangsung Pihak Berkuasa Palestin di Tebing Barat.

Penyokong bekas Presiden Mohamed Morsi melontar batu kerana mereka bertembung dengan pegawai keselamatan di Ramses Square di Kaherah, pada 16 Ogos, 2013. (Supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi throw stones as they clash with security officers in Cairo's Ramses Square, on August 16, 2013. (AFP Photo/Virgnie Nguyen Hoang – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommuity)

Egyptian security forces detained more than 1,000 people during Friday’s protests, many of them armed, police said. More than half of the arrests were made in the capital. The streets of Cairo were quiet overnight, as police, pro-interim government militias and neighborhood watches sought to enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew.

As the stand-off continues, both sides are seeking to rally supporters to their cause. Egyptian state TV has depicted the protest leaders as dangerous terrorists plotting against the country, and its footage of the clashes in Cairo showed people shooting firearms at police.

Other reports said Morsi supporters used rockets in an attack on a governmental building in El Arish, a city in the turbulent Sinai Peninsula, and tried to shoot down a military helicopter flying over Cairo.

Egypt’s Coptic Christian Church issued a statement on Friday, saying it supported the crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. The statement comes after numerous reports of attacks on Christian churches across the country.

The Muslim Brotherhood has accuses the military of using indiscriminate lethal force against peaceful demonstrations, and have accused the police of sending armed provocateurs into the ranks of the protesters.

Anti-military bloggers on social networks claimed that an army unit had defected to the side of the protesters Friday, taking an armored vehicle with them. The military denied the report as an unfounded rumor coming from the “ill imagination” of the protesters.

The killings in Egypt were condemned by many in the West, including the EU and the US government. Washington called off key joint military exercise with Egypt in a show of disaffection with the military’s violent crackdown, but stopped short of cutting off annual military aid of $1.3 billion to the country. Britain and France called an emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers on Friday to discuss "appropriate measures" in reaction to the violence. Several Latin American countries recalled their ambassadors to Egypt.

Reaction in the Arab world was split toward the Egyptian crisis. Turkey, whose moderate Islamist government is friendly toward the Muslim Brotherhood, strongly criticized the crackdown and called off a joint military drill with Egypt. Criticism also came from Qatar and Tunisia, while Iran voiced concerns that the violence would spread.

Strongly-worded support for the security crackdown on the Egyptian opposition came Friday from Saudi Arabia, a country ruled by an Islamist monarchy. King Abdullah called on Arabs to stand together against "attempts to destabilize" Egypt and endorsed the use of term “terrorists” to describe the Brotherhood protesters.

Saudi’s support was mirrored by the United Arab Emirates, another gulf monarchy. UAE’s King Abdullah said in a statement he stood against “those who fan up flames of hatred and (think that) chaos will promote the victory of Egypt, Islam and Arabism,” Emirates news agency WAP said.

Similar statements of approval came from Bahrain and Jordan.

In the West Bank city of Hebron, a pro-Morsi demonstration organized by the radical Hamas movement was dispersed by local security forces controlled by the moderate Fatah movement, which runs the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.