Egypt with her population over 80.7 million is one of the largest countries in the Arab world/Africa/Asia having over 90% of the population being Muslim. Two other countries similar in size (population and religious composition) are Turkey (74 million) and Iran (76.5 million).
Yesterday, Iran’s president said something very boring. It was so unremarkable that I can’t even recall what it is exactly. However it made the headline around the world. Hassan Rohani, Iran’s president is getting way too much publicity …like some Hollywood celebrity. Since Rohani doesn’t have a clown-like personality similar to his predecessor, Mr Ahmadinejad (Iran’s ex-President) and is not prone to silly outbursts, you’d think we wouldn’t be forced to read insignificant news from Iran…
Real crazy stuff is going on in Egypt. Western media have not been paying enough attention to it. Today is one-year-anniversary of one of the most brutal day you could imagine.
It was the day Egypt's security forces used automatic weapons, armored personal carriers and military bulldozers to raid and crush a month long sit-in protest by thousands of supporters of former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsy.
According to a yearlong Human Rights Watch investigation released this week, at least 817 people were killed.
The rights group called it "one of the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history."
Remember Neda Soltan the Iranian girl who was shot to death in a protest which caused a massive outrage in the world?
This is equivalent to 800 Neda Soltans who died in a single day. Sadly not enough outrage was shown as much as when Neda Soltan was killed.
Let’s have a moment of silence to those who lost their life needlessly.
Reference
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/14/world/meast/egypt-sayah-rabaa-anniversary/
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