CEJ #2-WORLD

Orion

2/5/2013

New York Times
David Kirkpatrick

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/06/world/middleeast/many-egyptians-fight-on-streets-to-restore-revolutions-goals.html?ref=world&_r=0

CEJ #2-world

'CAIRO ACTIVISTS FIGHTING TEAR GAS WITH TEAR GAS.'

Summary

People like Mohammad Makbel, 30 years old,pushed forward when many others fled from the advancing cars of the 

armored riot police. In Cairo, after the removal of former president Hosni Mubarak, violent street protests 

have destroyed tourism,cut foreign investments, increased poverty and ruined the hope of returning stability.

Makbel, a two year veteran of street protests said that "whenever people lose hope, the clashes grow worse, but the people in power still act as if there is no crisis, still firing more gas", "so I am going back in". More than 50 people have died in the last two weeks of these clashes. "the street kids are the ones who have suffered the most at the hands of the police".

Response

I think this is really terrible for a couple of reasons. One, all this fighting is bringing nothing but destruction in their country, and its giving them a bad reputation, and its destroying many innocent lives, many who are children. I think that what the government is doing is wrong and that they should see how its affecting their country and her people before they had set all this fighting in motion.