Sundries political crisis in Egypt

Egyps military leader and Muhammad Mursi

Sundries political crisis in Egypt

Egypt's state news agency (MENA) said the exchange of fire between the two families in the Cairo market killed 15 people, including 13 people who died because of fire.
           
MENA said the gunbattle on Monday (07/29/2013) night local time started when a store owner opened fire with automatic weapons and killing two people before merchandise spread on the lawn outside his shop.
         
Over the incident, the two friends burn it behind the store. The shop owner and 12 employees were killed.

Shootings and revenge burning in the old Cairo, el-Moski, is the latest sign of lawlessness that spread in Egypt for two years of political turmoil. There are many weapons in circulation and the police could not handle the crime.



Concerned with the situation of protracted political turmoil in Egypt, high priest of Al-Azhar, the largest Islamic institution in the country, has now started calling the opposing parties to immediately end the political crisis.

Imam of the Al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyib, hoping to hold a meeting for national reconciliation.

Over the last three days, the number of victims continues to swell in two protest camps where people are demanding the return of ousted President Mohammed Mursi.

Military-backed interim government said police would disperse the protest arena in order to avoid further bloodshed.

More than 250 people, mostly supporters of Mursi, were killed in the clashes since the military toppled the first leader democratically elected in Egypt on July 3.

Last week, Interim President of Egypt, Mansour Adly, consider reconciliation efforts initiated negarak countries like the United States and the European Union have failed.

Mansour said the Muslim Brotherhood, who are supporters of Mursi, "really responsible for the failure," as well as "events related to violations of the law and endanger public safety."

Split

On Saturday, the official Al-Azhar has asked the political leaders in Egypt to meet the national reconciliation that will be supervised by their high priest.

They said members of the Freedom and Justice Party and the Muslim Brotherhood and related other Islamist leaders, including being invited to come.

Al-Azhar, as a highly respected institution, has several times successfully brings together a range of different political forces since the movement in 2011 that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak, BBC correspondent in Cairo, Yolande Knell. However, this time the task becomes very difficult, said Yolande.

The high priests openly supported military intervention to overthrow Mursi after mass protests in the street, which angered the supporters, and the country is now so divided in two, he added.

Before the four-day Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of holy month of Ramadan, Interim Prime Minister Hazem Beblawi announced that the decision to dismiss the action sat quietly outside the mosque supporters Mursi al-Rabaa Adawiya and mosque near Cairo University is final. "The government wants to give protesters, especially the healthy minded among them, the opportunity to make peace and stating the reason," said Beblawi on state television on Thursday (09/09) ago.

The supporters of the ousted Egyptian president, Muhammad Mursi, Thursday (01/08/2013), the Interior Ministry rejected calls for an end to the action on two grounds in Cairo.
Mursi support group spokesman, Alaa Mostafa, said these demonstrations will continue.
Saqr, Mursi supporters who staged a protest at al-Rabaa Adawiya camp in northeast Cairo, said he and other supporters continue to demonstrate Mursi Mursi back until appointed as president.

"We are ready, ready to die to fight for legitimacy (Mursi). Attacks (against us) can occur at any time," said Saqr told Reuters news agency.

Nearby is a pile of rocks that he said would be used if there is a dissolving action.
Morsi, president of Egypt's first democratically elected, the military ousted last month.

Security threats
Similar action some time ago tinged acts of violence that left more than 70 people died Mursi supporters.

Previously, the Egyptian Interior Ministry requested that the rallies end and offers a safe way out and promise not to be brought to justice.

On Wednesday (07/30/2013), the military-backed government to allow police broke up the Mursi supporters.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy said the government is trying to find a peaceful solution to the political crisis that occurred in the country.

"Beyond that, we can not accept threats to security. Besides, we are also bound by the road map, which is still open to the possibility of all the elements in Egypt to participate," Fahmy said after meeting with counterparts from Germany.
United States has urged Egypt to respect the people's right of expression, including the right to peaceful action action.

 Head of EU Foreign Policy Catherine Ashton, on Monday (29/07/2013) night, reportedly in talks with the ousted Egyptian president, Muhammad Mursi, for two hours in Cairo.

Ashton spokeswoman, Maja Kocijanjic, Ashton confirmed via his Twitter account and Mursi have a meeting. However, he did not explain its location.

Mursi, since ousted last July 3, the military detained at an undisclosed location. Mursi is now under investigation related to a variety of alleged crimes including murder.

In his second visit to Cairo for 12 days, Ashton was one of the few outsiders who spoke with the two rival groups in Egypt.

Ashton is scheduled to hold a press conference on Tuesday (07/30/2013) night in Cairo.

Earlier, on Monday (29/07/2013), Ashton met with Egyptian military chief Gen. Abdul Fattah al-Sisi.

In addition to the overthrow of the brain that Mursi, Ashton also spoke with members of the Egyptian cabinet and representatives of the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.

"I would emphasize that an inclusive transition process, embracing all political groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood," Ashton said before arriving in Cairo.

Egypt's political crisis caused by the impasse rated dialogue between the warring parties. Intellectual Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) Zuhairi Misrawi said other countries could help Egypt to break the deadlock, including Indonesia. According to him, there are three things you can do to help end the Indonesian Government horizontal conflict that occurred in Egypt.

"First I think Indonesia could play a role to encourage reconciliation between opposing parties, especially the Muslim Brotherhood and the military," he said on the sidelines of the Emergency Animal Discussion on Change.org Office, Jakarta, Monday (07/29/2013).

Second, further Zuhairi, Indonesia can transmit inspiration achieve the basic philosophy of Pancasila as the state and nation. He told me, around 1960, the first president of Indonesia, Sukarno, had made a speech at Al Azhar University in Egypt when she received a doctorate honoris causa. In his speech, Sukarno's Pancasila conveyed how a common platform of all citizens.

"It was Pancasila was much admired by scholars because it became a middle ground for deadlock secularism and Islamism," says Zuhairi.

However, unfortunately, when it does not happen sort of political consensus to ensure the spread of the ideology of Pancasila in Egypt. Now, further Zuhairi, Indonesia could provide inspiration about Pancasila in Egypt in the past the process of democratic transition.

Meanwhile, the third step can be done by pressing Indonesia is the country to join the UN force, so there is a force capable of ending the violence.

"Violence is happening in Egypt is the effect of political violence," said Zuhairi.

Head of EU foreign policy, Catherine Ashton. Monday (07/29/2013) in Cairo, Egypt, to attend a meeting aimed at reducing tensions in the country.
This talk was held after more than 70 supporters of ousted Mohammed Morsi was killed on Saturday last weekend.
Ashton said he met all relevant parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood, a group of military origin and depose Morsi Morsi, including with General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, military officials behind the overthrow of Morsi.
He urged the transition to civilian government as soon as possible and ask the new government to embrace all sides.
This is Ashton's second visit to Egypt since Morsi's removal.

Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mohamed ElBaradei, who is now vice president occupied temporary, told Ashton that the government's attempts to resolve the crisis peacefully.

ElBaradei said he did not want to shed the blood of the people of Egypt.

But some say the bargaining position of the EU is not the United States, which has pumped $ 1.3 billion in military aid annually to Egypt.

Of developments in the field, on Sunday night, tens of thousands of supporters of Morsi walk towards a military facility in Cairo, the military ignored warnings that they are not approaching the facility.

This action does not trigger clashes reported.
The Muslim Brotherhood called for continued protests against the military overthrow of President Morsi.
Sources: BBC Indonesia