Cairo clashes: military rulers hold emergency talks with Christian leaders

[oberliner]

Source: The Guardian

Egypt's military rulers have held emergency talks with Christian leaders after the worst violence since February's revolution left 26 people dead and 300 injured – and raised grave doubts about the country's democratic transition.

The Coptic church called on followers to fast and pray for three days from Tuesday to mourn Christians killed in clashes with Muslims and security forces on Sunday night, now the subject of an investigation ordered by the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf), led by Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi.

Issam Sharaf, the interim prime minister, warned of a "despicable conspiracy" against Egypt and called for unity.

Egypt's Copts, numbering between 10 million and 15 million, are the largest Christian minority in the Arab world. Hundreds of mourners gathered at the Coptic cathedral in the Cairo neighbourhood of Abbassia, chanting slogans against the military. "Tantawi you traitor, the blood of Copts is not cheap," shouted one. Christians threw stones at police outside the hospital where many of the casualties of Sunday's violence were taken, while scores of distressed Coptic women dressed in black and carrying wooden crosses wept over the death of their "martyrs".

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/10/egypt-cairo-clashes-military-talks-christians?newsfeed=true

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I really do hope people start paying more attention to what is going on in Egypt right now.

[rollin74]

1. K & R

these are disturbing developments
:-(

I hope all the violence stops

[rayofreason]

2. First they came for...

...the Saturday people. Now it is the Sunday people's turn.

[No Elephants]

3. K & R