Are the ideas of the two coming to death different? Is there a difference between what wanders in the mind of the dying person in his bed and drenched in the blood of a massacre? .. There is no certain truth about that, but those who have lived through states of quiet ends and others of the bitterness of free mass death are well aware that there is a difference in the memories of the last look and in the submissiveness of the heart in the event of retribution.

Seven years ago, free mass death drained hundreds of Egyptians opposing the military coup; All their fault was that they supported the legitimacy of the then-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, so their punishment was the killing during the dispersal of their sit-ins in Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda squares, located in the east and west of Cairo on August 14, 2013.

Even now, despite the events that the country went through during the lean years, no one knows the exact number of the massacre's dead, and the dead were not subject to any accountability, but the situation was reversed!

Various figures were issued by official and human rights authorities regarding the number of victims of the massacre. While the National Council for Human Rights - an official human rights organization - confirmed that the number reached 632, local and international human rights organizations believe that the number exceeded a thousand, while the Muslim Brotherhood said that the number of victims exceeded two thousand A victim alongside thousands of injured.

What is more surprising than the lack of knowledge of the number of victims or the accountability of the killer is the punishment of the victim. In July 2018, an Egyptian court sentenced 75 opponents to the authority in the case known in the media as the "dispersal of the Rab'a sit-in", along with seven other cases that the judiciary is looking into concerning Charges of premeditated murder, destruction of public property, and resistance to the authorities.

Despite the blurry information and the absence of justice, a clear fact remains regarding the massacre, as it is one of the largest mass killings in Egypt's modern history, and one of the largest incidents of killing protesters in the world in one day, according to international human rights reports.

7 years have passed ... a day filled with blood with the largest massacre in the history of modern # Egypt in the fields of Rabaa Al-Adawiya and # Al-Nahda pic.twitter.com/vtp07T7W01

- Al Jazeera Egypt (@AJA_Egypt) August 14, 2020

Is the memory dying?

In a way, the memory itself appears to be on the road to death, given the separation of time and the multiplicity of misfortunes, so the tragedies mixed together and became a heavy burden without distinguishing each one separately.

However, what the crime of dispersing the Rabaa al-Adawiya and al-Nahda sit-ins formed in the Egyptian collective consciousness is difficult to forget or rotate to benefit the military coup’s authority. According to what observers confirm the political scene.

This appears with the days of the commemoration, as witnesses and families of the victims recall the bloody events through social media platforms, as well as renewed demands for retribution from the killers.

With the seventh anniversary of the massacre, several hashtags appeared to bring back the ugliness of the crime to the minds of Egyptians, including “Days of the Murder,” “Thinking Fourth,” and “Fourth Anniversary.” The “Rab'a” hashtag was published on social media sites with thousands of posts and tweeters.

A massacre will not be forgotten .. #Rabaa hashtag top Twitter on the anniversary of the dispersal of my sit-in # Rabaa_Adawiya and #Annahda on this day 7 years ago pic.twitter.com/b4dB1rdAMD

- Al Jazeera Egypt (@AJA_Egypt) August 14, 2020

An international investigation

Local and international human rights organizations also issued statements condemning the massacre that took place against the opponents of the military coup in Egypt seven years ago, and demanded an international investigation into the crime committed by the Authority.

Human Rights Watch considered the fourth massacre the worst mass killing in Egypt.

"The Rab'a massacre, in which Sisi's authority was not investigated even after seven years, was the worst mass killing of protesters in Egypt's modern history," it stated in a statement.

The organization called for an independent international investigation into the Rab'a massacre, explaining that no government official or security personnel were subject to investigation or prosecution in Egypt for committing violations in Rab'a, while many of the survivors were sentenced to death and long prison terms in trials it described as unfair.

A day with the smell of blood passed by heavy on # Egypt, leaving a wound that will not heal in the hearts and hearts of all who witnessed the massacre of # Rabaa, the most terrible in modern Egyptian history pic.twitter.com/ZdIycU2QjL

- Al Jazeera Egypt (@AJA_Egypt) August 14, 2020

On this day, August 14, 2013, the worst massacre of civilians in its modern history took place in Egypt, which did not happen during the era of any occupation force, in which more than 1,000 civilians were killed, and those who survived were arrested, and some of them were sentenced to death.
These crimes are not subject to statute of limitations, and the balance of justice will reach them one day. # Fourth Massacre pic.twitter.com/94ZG7gXCLo

- Jamal Sultan (@ GamalSultan1) August 14, 2020

Many calamities

There is a state of forgetfulness that struck the memory of Egyptians towards Rab'a, this is how the director of the Victims Center for Human Rights, Haitham Abu Khalil, saw, "while those who witnessed her and were harmed by her and those who were subjected to abuse by the regime remember her," he said.

In his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, Abu Khalil attributed the state of forgetfulness to the many calamities that occurred in Egypt after the Rabaa massacre, "so I forgot each other," according to him, stressing the role of the media and the opposition in reviving the popular memory and not being limited to days commemorating the crime only.

With regard to the human rights and legal action after the occurrence of the crime by the opposition, Abu Khalil said that there is severe negligence on both levels, referring to a single attempt by the Freedom and Justice Party to file a case before the Criminal Court in The Hague against the perpetrators of the fourth massacre.

He added that the party spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on that case, but unfortunately the court did not complete its consideration due to the lack of documents, and considering freedom and justice as a non-entity to file the case.

"This case was followed by individual legal attempts, then a state of surprising silence and lethargy," he added, referring at the same time to the support that the Egyptian regime obtained from the countries of Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Israel in order to stabilize conditions for army generals and not to internationalize the issue.

# Fourth of traitors, they received billions of betrayals.
Retribution is coming, no matter how long it takes,
that they see it far away and we see it soon pic.twitter.com/Oecd31Q87e

- Dr. Mohamed (@ Mohemara4) August 14, 2020

Foundational crime

As for the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Ahmed Rami Al-Hofi, he saw that the articulated events in history such as "Rab'a Al-Adawiya", whether the epic part of it or the crime, are not erased from memory, even if the talk about it is faded. It remains in everyone's consciousness, including murderers.

Speaking to Al-Jazeera Net, Al-Hofi considered that the Rabaa massacre was the founding crime on which the military coup built his regime, and continued, "Therefore, the authority, despite the passage of seven years, always needs to deny itself the crime of murder."

He indicated his speech with Sisi's latest statements, in which he said, "If our Lord is not satisfied with what we did in 2013, it would not have succeeded us."

The Brotherhood leader touched on the issue of the lack of an international investigation into the crimes of the Egyptian regime in the massacre, explaining that the international investigations are subject to the will of the influential forces internationally and regionally, so they were covered up so that the army generals remained in power.

Here they knelt here and prostrated
here the days testify that they have persisted.
They killed them at the break of dawn and thought that people would forget them, but they discovered that they are alive, not in hospitals, but in our hearts and consciences,
may God have mercy on them, the fourth martyrs # Fourth pic.twitter.com/MpnyzaMq6Y

- Younis (@ 1998_younis) August 14, 2020

A model of freedom and dignity

In the same context, former academic and parliamentarian Gamal Heshmat spoke about attending the anniversary of a fourth sit-in, "because it embodied the model of the state that the free Egyptian people aspire to, represented by a fourth sample, and the massacre that took place against the protesters will remain a model of freedom and dignity despite all the blood and wounds it contains."

During a symposium organized by the Hurriyat Center for Political and Strategic Studies - based in Istanbul - on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of the Rabaa massacre in Egypt, Heshmat added that "the conflict in Rabaa is a struggle between right and wrong, and a fourth round in a recurring cycle, and it will not be the end."

He stressed that the Egyptian regime will not be part of the solution, considering it an obstacle to any position to restore rights and restore freedoms in the country.

# Fourth is not my memory, # The fourth is a defining moment between man and a prehistoric beast, Sisi and his gang are prehistoric monsters, and crushing monsters not content with killing, but they burned the bodies and hid what was left of them, so when did this happen in Egypt before?

- Aly Abu Dahab (@ AlyAbuDahab1) August 14, 2020

There is no comfort in life, nor in death their
stable, the families of the missing since #Rabaa_Fifd_Rabaa until now they live with hearts suspended between hope and delivery #Rabaa pic.twitter.com/YOy0YzaedI

- Monitoring Network (@RassdNewsN) August 14, 2020

7 years have passed since the fourth ..
Do not forget them .. They were worthy of life! pic.twitter.com/nKaVUUZnb3

- Sami Al-Masha (@ sami31763321) August 14, 2020

And I knew that day that nothing will ever return to what it was..and that what is to come is a cloud, desolation, and darkness ...
May God’s peace be upon innocent souls and pure blood .. We have never, and will never forget # Fourth pic.twitter.com/CVZyQEbgYZ

- Omar Mokhtar (@ OmarMok31577850) August 14, 2020

We will not forget, we will not forgive, and we will not forgive the right of a rabaa massacre against the Egyptians. We will not be guided by a fair punishment for all our martyrs. Al-Sisi knows that his fourth is always fighting in his soul and his mind, and you cannot hear a fourth word pic.twitter.com/nmSPKYh88Y

- Elolaelsb3 (@ Alaa27667267) August 14, 2020