Egyptian Justice
The trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is proceeding. As it must, for the people, those people in particular who thought of themselves as liberating their country from tyranny, demand it. Which pleases the Salafist groups and the Muslim Brotherhood immensely. For former President Hosni Mubarak did his utmost as the primary authority of his country to keep those forces tamped down.Egyptians thought of themselves as living under a dictatorship. They were indeed. Are there any countries of the Middle East not living under a dictatorship of one kind or another? Ah yes, one. With whom Egypt had a historic peace agreement; cool and removed but reliable enough to ensure that no further conflict would arise between Israel and Egypt.
Egyptians for the most part, chafed under that agreement, resenting it and preferring to regard Israel as an enemy. There has been a considerable back-tracking in those cool relations toward the frigid, something like frozen carbon dioxide. Not much good will likely come of that gradual disintegration of peace. But then, Egypt will be signing a military pact with Turkey.
Turkey does have an Islamist government; a complete change-over and turn-around from the secular Turkey that once existed and which would never have imagined itself once to having severed 'friendly' ties with Israel. President Erdogan, however, simmers with anger as a result of Israeli intransigence in refusing to humbly apologize for insulting Turkey by defending itself.
That's another story, however. The case against former President Hosni Mubarak proceeds, but not quite as planned, for it would appear that witnesses brought by the prosecution have not been amenable to perjuring themselves, even at the behest of the authorities who have it in their power to lighten their own sentences should they do so.
Since Mr. Mubarak is accused of murder in the deaths of protesters this does not auger well for their case.
For, in fact, police officers to whom it has been made clear they must implicate Mr. Mubarak have chosen instead to elucidate that they had been ordered to exercise "restraint" and not, as charged, having been ordered by security commanders conveying Mr. Mubarak's orders to compel the shooting of anti-regime protesters.
Labels: Egypt, Islamism, Israel, Justice, Political Realities
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, September 07, 2011
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