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#Jan25 Sinai murders

Posted on 03/03/201118/02/2021 By 3arabawy

Via Sibilant Egypt:

This video was taken on the morning January 29 in the town of Sheikh Zowayed in North Sinai, the day after the Interior Ministry’s final showdown with protesters. It is in front of the police station there. According to sources in that area, police officers on January 28 were sniping passersby from the station all morning. The protests that day were happening to the right and left of the police station, in the main road that runs throughout the town. People who were passing through for any reason were shot at. At least six people were allegedly killed in this manner according to the source from Sheikh Zowayed who handed me this footage. By sunset the orders had apparently been given for police forces to withdraw, which they did in Sheikh Zowayed by night time. Residents were not sure they had left and checked the following morning, which is when they found the two bodies in the video. First there is a man inside his truck who has been shot in the chest. A little later there is the contorted body of a young man lying near the pavement.

Moreover:

There is also this audio recording, purported to be lifted from a mobile phone found inside the then empty police station when people went into it January 29. It seems to be of the policeman inside the police station sniping passersby outside. Plenty of gun shots are heard. Earlier on one voice is heard asking “Is someone shooting at him from up above?”. Some shots later one voice is heard saying “Allah Yenawar” which can be loosely translated as “Well Done”. Admittedly I’m no expert but the gunshots in the audio clip seem to be coming from where the recording is taking place, ie that it was just the police shooting but weren’t being shot at. If there was gunfire being returned there would be gunshots heard from a further distance, they wouldn’t be as loud but the shots all seem to be more or less at the same volume. The voices can be heard telling each other where the people to aim at are, saying for example one is behind a lamppost. Near the end of the recording one voice is talking about a “Dababa” passing by, which is Arabic for tank. However, in North Sinai “Dababa” is used to refer to a pickup truck and that’s probably what’s meant here.

Sinai Bedouins support the #Jan25 Revolution

Posted on 16/02/201122/01/2021 By 3arabawy

Statement by representatives of the majority of the tribes of North and South Sinai, regarding the Egyptian Revolution. They support the revolution and pledge to protect the eastern borders of Egypt, calling for prosecuting the police officials involved in murdering protesting, the immediate lifting of the emergency law and asserting their ownership of the Sinai lands. The Bedouin representatives consisted of around 350 mainly young Bedouin men from different tribes and met at Wadi Watir near the city of Nuweiba in South Sinai. They will be electing next week the delegation which will represent them in any negotiations with the government.

#Jan25 Sinai citizens storm Arish police station, liberate detainees

Posted on 12/02/201122/01/2021 By 3arabawy

Clashes broke out today in Sinai, as citizens stormed Arish’s 2nd Police Station, liberating the detainees.

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