Citizens in Assiut protest over bread, chanting against the governor.

“If the prices in the country weren’t that high, the boys wouldn’t have stolen the bread in that way.. May be they stole it because they don’t have enough food,” says a woman whose husband was beaten to death, while carrying loafs of bread in the street, by a group of boys.

Mubarak responds by sending in his army to control the situation, and boost the bread production and distribution. Ten mega-bakeries in Cairo are directly run now by the military, who opened 500 Kisoks to distribute bread to the citizens.

Sending in the army to distribute bread? This is a clear sign of a failed state, of an inefficient regime, of incompetent fucks who have been good at nothing but torturing, abusing, looting, and exploiting our poor.. and they can’t even make the bread available! Why can’t the Egyptians have bread?!

Meanwhile, the West-backed neoliberal gangsters who run the economy continue giving rosy statements about the future. Do I hear the 1977 bells ringing? Your days are numbered Mubarak!

UPDATE: Those who have died in the bread queues amount to 15 citizens. It even reached the extent that:

In Dokki, police found Molotov cocktails. While it was initially believed that the material belonged to a group of terrorists, police investigations later revealed that these explosive devices were prepared to aid citizens in buying subsidized bread.

That’s Mubarak’s Egypt. People are literally starving!

UPDATE: Another report by the Daily News Egypt.

The Lawyers’ Syndicate’s freedoms committee announced yesterday that it was launching legal action in the case of a man who died while queuing for state-subsidized bread, as part of its efforts in combating corruption.
The committee organized a protest Wednesday against corruption and political detention outside the Syndicate’s headquarters in Cairo. Holding up placards reading “No to the political detention of lawyers” and “No to a government of businessmen,” protesters chanted “The people want freedom” and “No to corruption, no to political detention” during the two-hour protest.