Karim Adel - Cairo

Independent and political rights sources revealed the reasons why no international investigation body has yet opened the file of the massacre of Rabaa al-Adawiya and Ennahdha in the summer of 2013, despite the lawsuits filed and legal moves announced six years ago.

The sources attributed the delay in the investigation to what it described as international collusion and haste in submitting the prosecution requests, without a real study of the jurisdiction of the applicant or the required conditions.

The Muslim Brotherhood, the Freedom and Justice Party, and former ministers and human rights lawmakers have filed several legal and judicial measures in recent years to prosecute those involved in the massacre, led by the current Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, but to no avail.

According to the National Council for Human Rights (Hukoomi), the process of breaking up the sit-ins resulted in 632 deaths, including eight policemen, but independent local and international human rights organizations put the death toll at over 1,000.

Human Rights Watch accuses Egyptian security forces of plotting what it described as systematic mass killings, but Egyptian authorities deny this and say they have used utmost restraint during the break-up.

International complicity

The former Egyptian parliamentarian Ezzedine El-Koumi, former head of the Human Rights Committee in the Shura Council, the delay of international investigation into the massacre of Rabaa Adawiya to what he called international complicity.

He told Al Jazeera Net that there is international complicity to prevent the initiation of criminal lawsuits because of common political interests, despite the existence of all documents and evidence and positive human rights and legal activity in this regard.

El Koumi explained that there were lawsuits in London, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, as well as the African Court of the African Union in 2014.

The former parliamentarian stressed that all the required documents had been submitted, but so far no verdict has been issued condemning those who carried out the massacre because of illegal dimensions related to the political assessments of governments.

He praised Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International's reports on the massacre, and called on the international community to act positively above human values ​​before political interests.

He expressed his belief in the legal accountability of the perpetrators no matter how long, saying that "crimes do not fall prescription and that the passage of time without a conviction sentence does not mean internationally to drop the crimes, but history talked about the trials that took place after decades and issued verdicts."

Human Rights Watch published a list of those accused of planning and carrying out a fourth massacre ( Al-Jazeera )

Unfinished efforts

In turn, the director of the international human rights organization Alaa Abdel Monsef said that a fourth case so far has not been opened in any way, and all attempts have been rejected formally and not objectively, as a result of improper procedures, and therefore the case is still pending international prosecution.

Abdel-Monsef explained that the urgency in submitting the prosecution requests without a real study of the jurisdiction of the entity or the conditions required to file the request, contributed to the rejection of applications formally.

However, the legal and legal expert believes that the option of international prosecution is still available through concerted efforts and to start properly, although the roads are difficult, slow and long.

He justified his optimism that the idea of ​​the international community (the competent international mechanisms) adopting the idea of ​​an international investigation is still available and available with all its difficulties.

He added that it is necessary to prepare an integrated file, starting with the inventory and accurate documentation of what was done on this day (the day of the massacre), and pressure in all images, to reach the idea of ​​international investigation.

As the sixth anniversary of the break-up of the Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Ennahdha sit-ins took place, Amnesty International called on the Egyptian authorities to stop human rights violations against those participating in the sit-in and to address the effects of this "black" day, the organization said.