Editor in Chief: Moh. Reza Huwaida Sunday, April 28th, 2024

Random Violence in Egypt

Seemingly, the Egyptian society does not optimistically drawn democratic and prosperity path. Instead it seriously wiggles from one side to another that sometimes undermines hope and optimism for a functional democracy. What have seen through on televisions and heard reports during last few days can only be described as a complete shatter of law and order. Shopping malls were looted, government vehicles, offices and security infrastructure burned down in Suez Canal.

Obviously, moving police out and moving army in has not come off with any help. Ten people have been shot dead and tens wounded during last week. Everything the government has in its treasury of its diplomacy offer to ease the situation, but has yet bluntly failed to manage the crisis. Consecutively, President Mursi called on violent rioters for the so-called national peace talks, but, as it looks, demonstrators do not have close affiliation with any political group, thus, do not and cannot send their representative to talk with the government of Muslim Brotherhood.

However, for the past year protests in Egypt have been accompanied by a degree of this kind of violence, mainly by young guys venting their long held animosity with a police force that has abused and humiliated them. But increasingly the protests are losing their political steam and turning more chaotically violent. One indication of that is that the possibility of a political solution - through dialogue, ministerial reshuffles etc - has become irrelevant when it comes to stopping what's happening on the ground. Though government is calling over and over again for national dialogue, nothing happens to calm people down.

The inevitability of more violence and more people being killed is a depressing reality here. The poor foundation of the state laid down after the revolution means every few weeks there is a partial collapse, The rate and frequency of violent demonstrations somehow disturbs the promising prospective of democracy for the largest Arab country. Somehow, most of the issues causing riots are doomed. As issuance of capital punishment of for twenty people found guilty in last year’s tragedy of football, people are divided, there were people who were dancing on the streets and expecting capital punishments for other culprits, while people put a tragic scenario on the show. On such issues, it is hardly difficult for government to do ease both sides.