After 6 years .. # Rabaa is still present in the memory of the Egyptians

Abdel Rahman Mohamed-Cairo

The number of the most popular social networking site Twitter in Egypt, and the widening circle of interaction with Facebook, confirms the presence of Rabaa Al-Adawiya and the renaissance that took place on August 14, 2013, in its sixth anniversary, and that it has not receded in the memory of Egyptians. .

Activists and reactants recorded their affirmation not to forget the "massacre" and the flagrant violations committed by the army and police, in the process of armed disbanding of peaceful protesters, and not to forget the names of participants of the leaders of the Egyptian regime at that stage.

Participants were also keen to republish photos and videos of the events of the disengagement, and others showing the bodies of the victims killed by the security forces during the disengagement process, documenting the names and numbers of these victims, and re-publishing the most prominent political and media symbols supporting and opposing the disengagement.

While some of the participants were keen to express their remorse for participating in the demonstrations of June 30, 2013, which resulted in the July 3 coup in the context of the fourth anniversary, others renewed their shock to accept a section of the Egyptian people for the massacre of the regime against the protesters, and considered it as evidence To the setback of the humanity of that sector.

The participants were keen to highlight the events of the disengagement of Ennahda Square, which was in front of Cairo University in Giza Governorate, and asserted that what happened in it did not say brutal than what happened in the disengagement of Rabaa, which captured the attention and follow-up, being the most numerous, which was monitored by video and audio.

In the context of criticism of the performance of opponents of the regime of those in charge of the sit-in, a number of activists recorded their presence in the process of breaking up with the protesters despite their expectation of the bloody events that took place where they did not find it necessary, and others recorded their criticism of the way the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood and their supporters in the commemoration of the anniversary, which was confined to crying without action Process.

In contrast to the widespread solidarity with the sit-in and its victims, others saw on this anniversary why not to forget the "crimes of the Muslim Brotherhood" with which the "Egyptian" was forced, according to their opinion, to break this sit-in, and others have the context of different justifications for the process of dissolution, which they believe was "necessary and necessary ".

On June 23, 2013, a few days before the military coup, supporters of the late President Mohamed Morsi began a sit-in in the fields of Rabaa and Ennahda in support of legitimacy, but the police and army began implementing the decision to forcibly remove the sit-ins, at 6 am on Wednesday, August 14, 2013. It left thousands dead and injured, as well as detainees, as well as forcibly disappeared.