Despite the significant decline in the activities of the Egyptian opposition at home and abroad, this did not prevent others from commemorating the seventh anniversary of the Rabaa massacre, whether in some global capitals or on social media.

On August 14, 2013, the military coup authority, led by the then Minister of Defense and current President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, carried out a bloody dispersal of a sit-in held by supporters of the late President Mohamed Morsi, who upheld its legitimacy and rejected the coup, which led to the killing of hundreds of protesters and wounding hundreds of others.

Opponents who spoke to Al Jazeera Net believed that there are other paths that should be revived apart from the annual repetition of the same activities, and among these tracks is documentation and evaluation, as well as legal action, while others spoke about the bankruptcy of the Egyptian opposition, and some saw that the solution is in the total revolution.

And according to the Al-Jazeera Net correspondent's monitoring, opposition figures abroad organized about 15 events to commemorate the fourth massacre over a period of 4 days since last Wednesday.

In the Turkish city of Istanbul, the Hurriyat Center for Political Studies organized a hypothetical seminar entitled "The political backgrounds and objectives of the massacres ... internally, regionally and internationally", with the participation of politicians and jurists.

While the Muslim Brotherhood organized a protest in central Istanbul, the Egyptian Revolutionary Council organized a virtual conference with the participation of a number of Egyptian political figures.

In the American city of New York, the Egyptian-American Coalition for Human Rights organized a car rally that roamed around the city, followed by a protest stand with the participation of Egyptian leaders. Dozens also demonstrated in front of the Egyptian Consulate in Sydney, Australia.

Europe had the lion's share of activities this year, despite the measures imposed by the outbreak of the Corona epidemic.

In the Netherlands, the Solidarity Foundation organized a stand in Amsterdam, and a stand in front of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, while dozens of Egyptians participated in the stand called for by the Coalition for Defense of Democracy in Paris.

The Egyptian-German Coalition for Democracy Support organized a car rally in the heart of the German capital, and dozens of people gathered in a silent stand to commemorate the Rabaa Al-Adawiya massacre.

The Federation of Egyptians in Bosnia organized a car rally in the heart of the capital, Sarajevo, and the Coordination of the Egyptian Community in Austria called for a demonstration in one of the capital's squares, with their participation in the commemoration of the seventh anniversary of the massacre.

The Egyptian Democratic Union in Italy organized a stand in the Duomo Square in Milan, and the Egyptian Revolutionary Council concluded the activities with a demonstration in the British capital, London, with the participation of Egyptian and international political figures.

What then?

Events, stands, marches and seminars in which all the participants sought to emphasize that "the Rabaa Al-Adawiya massacre cannot pass without punishment and prosecution of its perpetrators." But does the Egyptian opposition have other options?

For her part, the head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council, Maha Azzam, affirms that the Rab'a massacre is not only a memory, but rather a cornerstone upon which the resistance to the rule of the military and to break the barrier of fear, and that these activities announce to the international community the Egyptian people's refusal to submit to the massacres and military rule, and reminds them of the regime's ongoing crimes From killing, torture and imprisonment of political opponents.

In her interview with Al-Jazeera Net, Maha stressed that the most important thing that the opposition must do at this stage is accurate documentation and collection of evidence for everyone who ordered, masterminded and carried out the crimes in Rab'a and others, saying, "A day will come and the regime will fall," setting the example by following the Nazis throughout the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties , And punished.

Alternative paths

On the other hand, the Coordinator of the Global Coalition of Egyptians Abroad, Mustafa Ibrahim, stressed that Rab'a is a massacre that does not expire by statute of limitations, and that the perpetrators must be pursued despite the absence of the international justice system.

In his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, Ibrahim pointed out that the impunity for the perpetrators of the Rabaa massacre and the silence that pervaded international circles were the pretext for the continuation of the violations committed by the regime in Egypt.

He believed that the prosecution should include different tracks, the first of which is the sound scientific documentation of all the violations that have taken place, and is considered as a first step on which to build, followed by an attempt to find supporters for the international prosecution of the perpetrators of the fourth massacre in international organizations.

Regarding the third track in which civil society organizations must move, Ibrahim spoke of "searching for every legal or human rights loophole to try to push this issue again, and to search for alternative paths."

He stressed that the Egyptian political opposition cannot do effective work before it finds a platform that enables it to invest all the capabilities it has, despite its scarcity in light of the challenges it faces, with no real international desire to change the Sisi regime.

Bankruptcy of the opposition

On the other hand, the spokeswoman for the Women Against the Coup Movement, Asmaa, asked the Egyptian opposition parties to evaluate themselves and what they had presented during the past seven years.

In her interview with Al-Jazeera Net, Shukr indicated that the opposition is paying the price for not completing the goals of the January 25, 2011 revolution, adding that "half-revolutions only come with disastrous results, and this is what we are already witnessing."

The opposition called for not being satisfied with the stances and media condemnation of the Rab'a massacre and all the military massacres, without moving further in the coming period to pursue the perpetrators.

She added, "The stances and participations to condemn abroad is an important and necessary thing, but the question remains: Did the opposition abroad become bankrupt, to be satisfied with these stances to confront this criminal regime?"

She added, "The revolutionaries, groups and entities seeking to solve the Egyptian crisis must bear in mind that the speed of their movement, intensification and unification of efforts is a national duty on them, and everyone should realize the danger of the time factor in the loss of rights and delaying justice."

The solution is in the revolution

For his part, Shukri Abdel-Wahab, head of the General Shura Council of the Muslim Brotherhood Group - Public Office Front, said, "We fully believe that there is no punishment for the martyrs of the revolution since January 2011 until now, except at the hands of pure Egyptian revolutionary trials."

Speaking to Al-Jazeera Net, Abdel-Wahab added, "We do not count on the international community that did not support the oppressed before, and certainly we do not count on justice under the tyrannical military rule, but we believe that the revolution is the only way to restore the freedom of the homeland and retribution for the martyrs."

He continued, "The memory is not for us, but rather to revive the conscience of the silent world on the massacre of his accounts," adding, "If it is the fourth field of freedom's battlefield, then the battle now has space and time, and the souls of free people who believe in the right to freedom, the era of oppression and vulnerability has passed, and if you ask what The kit we say the psychology of the pioneers and the thinking of the free, for slaves do not win. "