You are in the the 110th Child Diary of the Liveblog of the 2011 Egyptian Uprising and other uprisings spreading throughout the Mideast. We stand with our international friends and their courageous struggle for dignity and human rights.
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To Witness is not passive. A thought to consider:
In Transforming Our Terror he writes, 'The true witness is not passive, but tries to take an overview and maintains a sense of caring responsibility for the totality of the event, free from bias.' In some accounts such awareness can seem cool and detached, but Christopher emphasises sensitivity to experience and - that dangerous word again - 'intimacy' with it.
BAHRAIN:
Breaking: tweets reporting that police are attacking a hospital:
Jefferson252 George Jefferson
RT @NickKristof Police attacking protesters here at hospital in #Bahrain. Tear gas inside. Panic.
The Bahraini King
praised those who killed peaceful protesters:
He later addressed troops and praised them for their 'bravery and readiness to assume their national duties'.
In a statement issued from the military base, the king said the government has widened the scope for peaceful and legal freedom of expression, the report said.
Within hours of the king's departure from the base, around 60 to 70 tanks and armoured personnel carriers descended on Manama.
Yep, widening the scope of freedom of expression. For the military, I guess. Meanwhile, at least 60 people are missing:
More regional tidbits after the fold....
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LIBYA: Deadly "Day of Rage" in Libya:
"Today the Libyans broke the barrier or fear, it is a new dawn,'' Faiz Jibril, an opposition leader in exile, said.
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Abdullah, an eyewitness in the country's second largest city of Benghazi, who spoke to Al Jazeera, said that he saw six unarmed protesters shot dead by police on Thursday.
He also said that the government had released 30 people from jail, paying and arming them to fight people in the street.
Sound familiar?
I must include this recent video (actually just audio) begging for media coverage and international support:
The hardest part of witnessing is seeing people injured and killed and feeling helpless. Please take care of yourself as you take all of this in. Find ways to clear the pain of helplessness and hold onto the gift of witnessing you are offering. They need us and we each have to find our own ways to make it possible to be here for them.
YEMEN: More violence in Yemen on Thursday:
Yemeni police opened fire Thursday on a crowd of protesters shot and injured six people on Thursday evening trying to break up a demonstration in the southern port city of Aden and another 25 people were wounded in violent clashes between pro- and anti-regime demonstrators in the capital city of Sanaa.
A Yemeni demonstrator tries to protect himself from gunfire with a parasol and a cardboard box on his head:
ALGERIA: An worthy read today from Algerian journalists:
Agree to Disagree
The National Coordination for Change and Democracy, known as the CNCD, is an opposition movement born in the wake of other small-scale protests that occurred in December 2010- January 2011. It was created on January 21st as a result to the protests about the costs of life that took the lives of 5 protesters and injured over 800 others.
The leadership behind the CNCD come from different backgrounds: Unions, human rights associations, student associations, civil society, intellectuals and also political parties- all united to bring together all unions and associations working hard to establish a better order in the Algerian political system, and to lift the State of Emergency that has been in place since 1992.
Given how they are outnumbered, it is particularly notable that Algerians plan another demonstration on Saturday:
Last weekend, 30,000 police saturated the capital, Algiers, to prevent 2,000 people from demonstrating. Riot police blocked off roads, and harassed, beat and arrested hundreds of people who had gathered.
EGYPT: Egyptians are celebrating the "Friday of Victory" today:
I had wondered about the "committee of the wise". The Arabistpoints us to a Washington Post article:
* Nehad Abul Komsan - Egypt's youth and the faux reformers
A well-deserved attack on the self-appointed "committee of the wise" and other latecomers to the Egyptian revolution.
IRAN: The New York Times reports that Hir Hossein Moussavi and his wife are missing. As we know, parliament has been calling for his execution. Now is daughters are concerned that their parents have been detained.
Calls have intensified from Iran’s Parliament and judiciary for the prosecution of both men, who have been accused repeatedly of waging war against God, a crime that carries the death penalty. This week, as the opposition revived in solidarity with uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, law markers in Parliament called for them to be hanged.
An opposition group, the Green Path of Hope, issued a call through the opposition Web site Jaras for supporters to take to the streets on Sunday to remember the deaths of two protesters in this week, as well those of “other martyrs of the green movement.”
JORDAN: 8 injured in protest in Jordan where the government is employing the "pro-government protesters" tactic:
"They beat us with batons, pipes and hurled rocks at us," said Tareq Kmeil, a student at the protest. "We tried to defend ourselves, to beat them back."
He said at least eight people suffered fractures to the skull, arms or legs.
"Police didn't do anything to protect us," he said. "Police forces just stood on the side watching us getting beaten."
Police spokesmen were not immediately available for comment.