Dear All
The President of Egypt has failed the
people of his country.
As we are seeing, there is a new ‘Arab
Spring’ on the march because people are sick of living in poverty and being
denied a future.
President Mohammed Morsi is no longer in public
office; there has been a military coup after only one year of his reign.
The head of Egypt’s army General Abdul
Fattah Al-Sisi said the constitution had been suspended and the chief justice
of the constitutional court would take on Mr Morsi’s powers.
It’s a start, but we have been here before,
there must be leadership and there must be a vision to go forward!
People in Egypt need a democracy that is
inclusive and for all the people to live in harmony in a meaningful sense!
And people want freedom from the oppressive
measures that has been the hall mark of the Morsi regime, he and his advisors
didn’t listen to the views of the people, their narrow minded agenda was their
downfall.
The people have taken to the streets in
vast numbers, all with the same message; Moris must go for the good of the
country. When you see the footage of four days of mass street demonstrations
against Morsi, you see the writing on the wall for him and his supporters.
The Army has stepped in and hopefully,
there won’t be civil war.
Morsi was issued with an ultimatum issued
by the military which expired on Wednesday afternoon to change, the deadline
passed and we are where we are.
President Morsi’s current whereabouts are
unknown, but an unverified tweet claiming to be from him urged civilians and
members of the military to uphold the law and the constitution.
Rather than prolonging the agony, he should
just step away, in the Middle East, leaders who have had their day sometimes
end up with a bullet through their head.
It is never good when the Army is forced on
to the streets of its own country, however, the Army appears to be placing
themselves above the politics, they want stability, but are mindful of the
people’s real anger.
Several hundred soldiers with armoured
vehicles staged a parade on a main road near the presidential palace in Cairo as
a show of strength.
The security sources have issued a
statement that Morsi and the entire senior leadership of his Muslim Brotherhood
where banned from leaving the country.
If Morsi is interested in national unity,
he must know that he has to step down; Tahrir Square is filled with people who
have said that his illiberal policies aren’t what Egypt and its people are
about.
Maybe he will recognise that it is time to
go, if it ends up as civil war, then Morsi probably won’t get the option of a
Court trial unless the Army grab him first.
His options are narrowing, a bullet throw
the head, getting hung, or standing down.
I think option C is the best bet, there have
been a lot of inventions in the world, but there hasn’t been a man who can out
run a bullet.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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