Despite the announcement by the authorities of the curfew (from 18.00 to 7.00 am) throughout the country and putting the army special forces with tanks in Cairo, a popular uprising in Egypt is not terminated, but only gaining momentum. Center for Egyptian capital occupied the rebels, demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. Insurgent youth and workers are trying to storm the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, except that were attacked: the building of the ruling National Democratic Party, the residence of President Mubarak, also burned several police stations. The city of Suez and Alexandria came under the control of the insurgent population.
Today is called the "Friday the anger" or "Friday the martyrs."
Government forces have lost control over what's happening in the city center, uniformed policemen on the streets no more. In Cairo, documented numerous arson. In particular, the burning building of the ruling National Democratic Party. A few hours earlier in Cairo were put troops and spetststehnika.
Unrest continued in other cities of Egypt.According to unconfirmed reports, Suez and Alexandria totally out of control government. Posts on the total number of victims and survivors is not, however, from most major cities received anecdotal evidence of those killed in clashes with police. To break up demonstrations, continued from Tuesday, used tear gas, water cannons, rubber bullets, special machinery.
Demonstrators took the town of Suez, the police fled the city. In the town of Al-Mansour about 40 thousand people crushed the Department of the ruling party.Covered by a riot of Alexandria, Luxor, El-Arish, in the province of El Minya, Sharkia. The city in northern Egypt Dametta protesters tried to set fire to the local headquarters of the ruling PDP. Generally throughout the demonstrators use Molotov cocktails to attack the centers of state power.
About 50 thousand people demonstrated in the city of El Mahalla el-Kubra, which became the spring of 2008 the epicenter of mass social protests. In Ismailia rebels stormed and torched the headquarters of the ruling party.
Rioters demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak , the dissolution of the government and parliament, provedniya reforms, fight against unemployment and poverty affecting an country.
Going demonstrations have already been recognized as the greatest all-time presidency Mubarak.The total number of victims of riots to five people - according to the opposition, the police shot one protester Bedouins. Previously reported the deaths of three civilians and one Egyptian police.
Police seek to stop the unrest, using tear gas grenades and traumatic, and firearms. At least 870 protesters were affected by the turmoil in the 28 January, the agency Reuters citing medical sources. Several thousands have been detained by police.
Approximately half of the victims hospitalized, some of them are in serious condition. Killed by prefixnym data, eight people - five in Cairo and three in the Suez.
Also sobschaetsya: Friday was completely off the Internet, according to the media in the country almost simultaneously stopped working all providers.
Can not be opened including the site of the president and government.
Previously, work was halted social network Facebook and service Twitter , but this has not prevented the use of web protesters - they continued to use the microblogging through mobile applications, SMS-communications and networking "mirror".Meanwhile, as reported by Al-Jazeera , the transfer of SMS-messages as of Friday was blocked.
Protests in Egypt began immediately after in Tunisia, also located on the Mediterranean coast of Africa, was deposed regime of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who had been in power since 1987. Mubarak, who this year celebrate 83 years ruled Egypt for even longer - since 1981.
Analysts say that the reason for today's unrest began to unemployment and low living standards.About 40% to 80 million people in Egypt live on less than two dollars a day.
According to some analysts, the current protests - the result of visiting Egypt next generation of Internet activists of the opposition. For a long time to express their feelings, they used a "FaceBook" and blogs. And now for the first time attempted to convey their thoughts through a computer, and through street demonstrations.
This is a young ambitious people who want to improve the country.They have a lot of demands to the political regime, they want to conduct reforms in Egypt. During the demonstrations, the youth joined the traditional political groups - the Justice, National Institute for Change, the Muslim Brotherhood. But a new generation abandons their slogans and struggled to separate themselves from those groups.
Pronounced leaders in online activists unavailable. A natural way to identify those who are trying to monitor the demonstrations, comes up with slogans and demands to the regime. Their ideas are supported by the majority, but nobody likes that on demonstrations was shown cruelty. Further developments largely depend on the reaction of the authorities.
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