HRW accuses Egypt of plotting killing of Islamist

The NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW), based in the United States specializing in the defense of human rights, has made public on Tuesday a very critical report on the Egyptian authorities for the brutal eviction of the protest camp Islamist al-Rabba Audawia on August 14 last year. Died that day in Cairo hundreds of supporters of Mohamed Morsi, first democratically elected president in Egypt and deposed a month earlier in a coup. According to the document, the slaughter of protesters was premeditated, placing responsibility in several senior government officials, including the current president Abdelfattah Sisi, which holds that probably constitutes a crime against humanity.

The report, 188 pages, entitled “All according to plan: the slaughter of Rabbah and the mass killing of protesters in Egypt “, identified 817 fatalities, but estimated that the actual death toll could exceed 1,150 people. To make it, the NGO investigators interviewed more than 200 witnesses, reviewed dozens of video recordings and analyzed the statements of Egyptian leaders. The Egyptian government has reacted by calling the document ” biased ” and decrying the fact that the evidence referred to are anonymous.

“In the square of Rabbah, Egyptian security forces committed in one day one of the most mass killings of protesters in recent history,” said HRW ‘s executive director, Kenneth Roth, in the report, which compares the slaughter with which took place in Beijing’s Tiananmen square in 1989 a Roth and director of HRW’s Middle East, Sarah Leah Whitson were refused entry to Egypt on Sunday after spending twelve hours held at the airport of El Cairo.

The text recognizes that some protesters were armed She found 15 firearms in camp- the main argument of the authorities to explain the violence used by the police. However, HRW believes that the use of force was completely disproportionate as armed civilians were a small minority. ” The evidence shows that security forces opened fire on the crowd from the first minutes of the dispersion,” said Roth. It was not until hours after initiation of eviction authorities opened the safe departure of the police cordon protesters runners.

Given that the Egyptian judiciary has opened proceedings against those responsible for the killing, the NGO urges the Human Rights Council of the UN to open an international commission of inquiry. It also urges the international community to stop the sale and shipment of any type of weapons to Egypt and to monitor the events in national courts under the principle of universal jurisdiction for crimes against humanity. Egypt signed the treaty that created the International Criminal Court, but has not ratified it yet. This court based Hague dismissed last May a complaint from the Muslim Brotherhood, the movement to which it belongs Morsi.

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