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Why we are here at Tahrir Square
Duration:
4 minutes and 59 seconds
Year: 2011
Country:
Egypt
Language:
English
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CC - Public Domain
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Documentary
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www.zerosilence.org
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www.zerosilence.org
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2,627
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Posted by:
youknowit on Feb 2, 2011
An Egyptian protester clearly answers the questions which many of us outside Egypt want to pose. Video clip provided by www.zerosilence.org
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- Just to have your thoughts on the situation today:
- The situation is very obvious.
- The Ministry of Interior unleashed all the thugs to destroy the cities
- so that people would say that they still need the regime. We don't want the regime.
- We want either a constitutional amendment
- or something that says that the next President of Egypt will be chosen by the people
- When we say we don't want the regime, it doesn't mean we don't want Hosni Mubarak as a person
- and be stuck with someone else who is imposed upon us.
- We want to choose our president because we want to take this country into the future.
- Tomorrow, there is a talk of a Million Men March?
- Oh, yeah, everybody is coming. I am coming for sure and
- everybody I know is coming. We are going to keep demonstrating peacefully
- Even if we get attacked by police forces, we are peaceful and we're going to keep on protesting peacefully
- until our demands are met.
- There is a talk that the road is closed to Cairo
- The Egyptian youths are protecting their own homes.
- They are coming together and they are uniting.
- And everybody is coming together to protect their areas and homes.
- We don't need the thugs of the police force to protect our own homes.
- We have proven that we can keep this country safe
- from the harm that they cause for us.
- We have proven that we can take this country forward.
- People are cleaning the streets. The scouts are cleaning the streets.
- We want to keep this country safe; they want to destroy it.
- So we're not going anywhere until our demands are met
- So you think whatever they do tomorrow will not stop people from coming to Cairo?
- We are really hoping that what we hear about the police forces not interacting with the peaceful protesters - we hope that is true.
- We will be peaceful all the way. And they need to respect that.
- And let us protest peacefully.
- What is the effect of shutting down the Internet? Do you think it has slowed down?
- Apparently, the effect it had, it had an opposite effect.
- Because people really did depend on Internet. It was an unprovoked thing from the government to do.
- Even though they shut down the Internet, this is not just a Facebook revolution or Internet revolution.
- As you have seen many hundreds of thousands of people in the streets. Even though the phone lines were shut on Friday
- people still came out and demonstrated because this is not about the Internet. This is about the needs and demands of the Egyptian people.
- Are you afraid that they might do something to stop this?
- They tried and they couldn't.
- It's either they let us protest peacefully or
- else people are going to stick by their words and stick by their demands and not be broken up because we have had it.
- It's either they answer our demands or we are not leaving this Square no matter what.
- Is there a compromise that people would accept?
- The only compromise people would accept is that if there is a guarantee
- that the next president of Egypt will be chosen by the people.
- You would accept something like a transition period?
- It needs a transition period. There is no way that this would happen without a transition period.
- Down with the dictatorial regime!
- Almost there!
- Step down so that the victims can rest in peace!
- Go home and hang it on your door "We don't want you" Mubarak!


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