Iman Chairman condemns Egyptian bomb attacks
Domingo, 29 Diciembre 2013
Fresh bomb attack provokes further unrest in Egypt
Euronews
29 DECEMBER, 2013
There is further unrest in Egypt after a bomb targeted a military intelligence building in Anshas, a village around 100 kilometres north of Cairo.
Four soldiers were wounded and the building’s back wall was partially destroyed in an attack the army is labelling an act of “terrorism.”
Security sources have described Sunday’s bomb as an explosive device, while a state-run news station in Egypt said it was a car bomb.
It is the second bomb strike on military forces in the space of a week.
Around 350 police and soldiers have been killed in bombings and shootings since President Mursi was deposed.
His party, the Muslim Brotherhood, was recently declared a terrorist organisation.
One university student said he couldn’t sit his exams at Cairo’s al-Azhar University because Muslim Brotherhood supporters had blocked the building.
“The current situation is that we came here to sit the exam but students (who belong to the Muslim Brotherhood) closed the doors of the university,” said student Ahmed Ibrahim. “They have even burned the building therefore we do not know where the exam will take place.”
Police fired tear gas into the university to disperse a demonstration staged in support of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
Another student, Islam Ali, expressed his fears about the situation.
“We are all scared of the police,” he said. “We are unable to enter the building because of the Muslim Brotherhood students. And the police were unable to reach an agreement with them.”
In spite of the violence, Egypt’s army-backed government has said their political transition plan will go ahead as planned, with a referendum on a new constitution expected in mid-January.
Condemning the attack, Iman Chairman, Ribal Al-Assad said:
"I am very concerned to hear of the current situation in Egypt, the recent spate of terrorist attacks by the Muslim Brotherhood should ring alarm bells.
Islamists are committing atrocities in Egypt every day now; the only way to establish a free and fair democracy in the country is for this to stop - how can democracy flourish when the security situation is so critical?
The more Islamists that attack, the greater the support for the security services - for the Islamists, whose sole objective is to turn Egypt into a caliphate state under Sharia law, resorting to violence is the only thing that they know.
The international community must come together to confront and fight extremism in all its forms, there is no place for it in today's world and there can be no place for it to hide.
In the mean time, those who commit such cowardly acts must be fully held to account for their actions, we cannot allowed extremism to derail Egypt's democratic progress."
