EGYPTIAN REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL STATEMENT ON THE BLOODY EVENTS IN SINAI

Cairo, 4 Muharram 1436/28 October 2014 (MINA) – The Egyptian Revolutionary Council mourns the loss of innocent Egyptians killed in the Sinai by a regime that has turned Egypt into a sea of Egyptian blood. The atrocities against the Egyptian people continues unabated through its brutal attack against Omar Sharif and Mohammed Abdul Muhsin, both Engineering students at the Alexandria University, who were killed at the hands of the Ministry of Interior in the Ain Shams area in ​​Cairo.

According to Middle East Monitor (MEMO) quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA), in addition to mourning the death of countless Egyptians and offering their sincere condolences to their families, the Revolutionary Council emphasises the following:

1. The responsibility for the events in Sinai must be borne by the coup leader Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and the military council who adopted a confrontational and repressive policy against the people of Sinai. They have been treated harshly by the military regime for many decades. The state has also neglected in making significant development and investment in the entire Sinai area.
2. The bloody attack on the Egyptian army in Sinai is one of a number of daily massacres committed against the innocent people of Sinai under the pretext of fighting terrorism. The absence of real and fair trials has also left bitterness in the hearts of the people of Sinai and cannot be easily healed.
3. The Revolutionary Council strongly warns against the coup regime who is attempting to forcefully displace the people of Sinai under the pretext of fighting terrorism because this is another violation of international norms and laws. It is also a crime against our fellow Egyptians who we admire for their struggle and perseverance. At the same time, this exposes the coup regime’s complicity with the Israeli state who that is seeking to evacuate Sinai of its people in order to serve the Zionist project in the area.
4. Therefore, the Egyptian Revolutionary Council believes that the solution for the problem in Sinai must be in accordance with immediate and future development plans that include reconstructing of this piece of Egyptian land in a manner that ensures the population would flow into it, not flee from it. We would also like to note that the legitimate president of Egypt, Dr Mohamed Morsi had intended to implement real development projects worth £4 billion, but the regime behind the bloody coup seized the allocated funds and used it to kill the people of Sinai.
5. The Egyptian Revolutionary Council demands that the leaders of the Egyptian army are subject to immediate trial, beginning with Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi as he is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and Minister of Defence, as well as other officials who led the army into a losing battle with the Egyptian people in order to seize power.
6. The Revolutionary Council also considers these military leaders to be directly responsible for the gross negligence that led to the loss of such a large number of Egyptian people in light of their distraction from their main duties in order to involve themselves in political affairs
7. The Revolutionary Council stresses the importance of the Egyptian people continuing their great revolution in order to rescue the Egyptian army from the clutches of the gang that controls the army and uses it to serve its own purposes and aspirations. They have driven the army to the streets, squares and university campuses in order to silence the voice of the people demanding freedom and this is as far as can be from the army’s main duty of protecting the country from foreign attacks.

God bless the people of Egypt and may God save him from all harm and evil. (T/P3/P2)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)