We enter into the second week of pretexts in Cairo,the capital city of Egypt. The resolve of the people has not dampened one bit. They agree to reforms,they agree to orderly transition of power, but they are sticking to their guns. Mr Hosni Mubarak must leave office. He has resigned his leadership of the ruling party believing that to be enough of a concession to his people to allow him to stay in office until the next elections in September.
Listening to him speak on national television,you begin to wonder wether he is inhabiting the same planet as the people he is suppose to be ruling. Reports claim that at least 300 people have died in the last fortnight. And several hundred have been injured in the ensuing protests. The underlying issue that makes this all so sad is that nothing seems to make sense in Egypt anymore. Since the Army have said that they will not fire on their citizens their role has been reduced to peacekeeping between the factions of pro an anti-Mubarak protester who last weekend turned the Tahir Square into a war zone.
Civil normalcy seemingly returned to the capital today with banks opening and businesses trying to get back to the everyday routine of trading,but the restlessness is still there in the air as the protesters refuse to quit from the Square. They were photographed sleeping between the tracks of tanks occupying the Square just to ascertain that they were not corralled into specific places at the behest of the authorities.
It seems no one has the answers, The international community are asking Mr Mubarak to do the right thing(as if he understands the meaning of the sentence even if it was spelled out to him clearly in egyptian) meeting between the government and the coalition of the opposition have not brought forth anything tangible,yet America is praising Mr Mubarak for the concessions he has made so far(Mrs Clinton I think you need to choose your words a little more carefully). Short of Mr Mubarak leaving the government completely which he says will amount to the whole system collapsing in chaos,I do not see any way forward out of the confusion that has engulfed this ancient citadel of knowledge,so sad.
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