Former President Hosni Mubarak is set to head to trial alongside former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly, but the seeming reluctance to try other ministers, and the swearing in of other ministers who belonged to Mubarak's cabinet into the interim cabinet has created additional tensions amongst the Egyptian population.
Concerns over Mubarak's recent wellbeing have scuppered earlier attempts to bring him to trial, where he is accused of ordering the killing of protesters in February.
Egypt's transition continues to be marred by violence between protestors and security forces, most recently over the weekend in which hundreds of people were injured according to the Egyptian health ministry (Al Jazeera, 23 July 2011). According to the protestors these clashes were triggered by the slow pace of reform in the country, and their marching to the defence ministry is a signifier of the increasing frustration some of them feel towards the ruling military council, as the military remains greatly respected amongst much of the population and has not behaved as badly as the police and intelligence services.
Clashes have occurred between groups best characterised as nostalgists for the Mubarak regime, who fear the insubstantiality of the demonstrators and groups who succeeded in toppling Mubarak. On the other hand, many Egyptians are growing weary about what they feel are continual protests, or else fear that the power of mass action and protest is being diluted.
Yet a source of concern is that some political movements and groups, including youth ones, seek to delay the holding of elections, ostensibly so they are better prepared, although this strategy may turn out to be counterproductive, as such groups may lose support that they are likely to get from the momentum of the revolution. This is so because as time passes, that momentum wanes and claims that the revolution was the work of everyone and not just the youths will emerge, which has already begun. They may also lose support if they are perceived to be preventing the elections through naivety or incapacity, as this was clear during the 19 March referendum on partial constitutional amendments.
Groups that participated in the toppling of Mubarak arguably had a better chance of succeeding in elections if they were held early. They are also perceived to be weakening the chances of other, better-prepared groups through delaying tactics, which also possibly plays into the hands of the military and those who might prefer that the status quo persist.
This should also prove to be a serious test of the credentials and trustworthiness of the military in regards to their stated intention of returning the country to civilian rule, with the adherence to agreed deadlines on transition remaining the key indicator.
Compiled by Timothy Walker of the African Conflict Prevention Programme of the ISS.
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THE PEOPLE ARE WIZE THEY WANT TO SEE MORE SWIFTER JUSICE TO THOSE WHO BROKE THIER TRUST THOSE WHO BETRAYED THEIR GOVERNMENT THOSE WHO LIED AND CONTINUE TO LIE TO DEFEND WHAT COULD NEVER BE RIGHT. IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT THAT REVOLUTIONARIES WHO WERE ARRESTED IN THE FIGHT FOR FREETHINKING AND INDEPENDENCE SHOULD NOT BE TRIED OR EVENT IMPRISONED IT SOILS THE BEAUTY OF THE REVOLUTION AND IT SALUTES THE DOUBLE STANDARD OF THE PAST. THE ARMY SHOULD RELEASE ALL THE REVOLUTIONARIES WHO HAVE DONE NOTHING BUT GOOD FOR THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE. TO BE AN HONEST BROKER THE ARMY MUST COMPLY WITH THE TRIALS OF THE MANY FEW WHO WERE INDEED COLABERATORS OF INJUSTICE AND TREASON. THE FEW WHO PROFITED FROM THE PLUNDER THE THE VICTIMISATION OF THE MANY ANDTHE FEW WHO IN THE TIME OF THEIR COMEUPONCE DECIDED THAT MURDER WAS THEIR WAY OUT MRDER WAS THEIR SOLUTION TO ALL THEIR YEARS OF DECEPTION REPRESSION CORRUPTION AND TERASONUS INHUMANITY AT THE BEHEST OF THOSE WHO ARE WICKED HYPOCRITICAL LIARS PLUNDERERS RAPIST TORTURERERS KIDNAPPES RACIST AND TRULY BARBARIC AND INHUMANE. THOSE WHO SOUGHT THE FREINDSHIP OF THOSE DICTATORS WHO BENEFITTED FROM THE POVERTY ILLITERACY THE MANNOURISHMENT OF THE LITTLE CHILDREN. THOSE WHO WERE MARGINALISED AND SENT TO DESPAIR IN ABJECT DECAYING POVERTY THEY STOOD STRONG FOR THE REVOLUTION AND THEY WANT JUSTICE !!! THEIR LIVES WERE NONE TO BE PROUD AS EGYPTIANS YET THEY STOOD WITH THE MANY FROM THE BEGINNING THEY FOUGHT THRU GRACE AND STRENGTH OF MIND THEY STOOD IN PRAYER THAT WHAT THEY BELIEVED WAS THE RIGHT THING AND IN THAT BELIEF THEY ASKED THE "ONE AND ONLY GOD" TO GIVE US GRACE AND TO FREE US FROM THE BONDAGES OF THE CURSED.. THESE REVOLUTIONARIES OVERLOKKED SECT THEY SAW NOT THE PERSUASION THEY SAW ONLY THE TRUTH THE RIGHTS THE EQUALITY OF ALL EGYPTIANS. THEY ON THAT DAY DECIDED THAT THOUGH IN RIGHTEOUSNESS THEY WOULD ACCEPT THIS REVOLUTION BUT THEY THEM SLEVS WOULD NOT BE MASTER OR JUDGE OF ANY RELIGOUS OR POLTICAL PERSUASION THEY FEEL THAT THE RIGHT JUDGE OF THODE DISCRETIONS IS FOR "HE" THAT IS OUR CREATOR. THE PEOPLE ARE IMPARTIAL AND NOT HERE TO JUDGE WETHERYOU SHOUDL BE SLAFI OR SUNNI SHIITE OR CHRISTIAN COPTIC, WHAT THEY SAY EVERY MAN HAS THE RIGHT TO WORSHIP AS THEY SEE BUT WHAT THEY DO SAY IS THEIR GOVERNMENT OF FUTURE WILL BE GOVERNED UNDER THE LAWS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WHERE THE ACT OF CORRUPTION CAN NEVR BE ASSIMILATED SO EASILY TO CORROSIVELY UNDERMINE THE TRUE RULE OF LAW WHICH IS THE HUMAN AND UNIVERSAL RIGHTS OF AL HUMANITY. THE RIGHT OF FREE THINKING THE RIGHT OF EQUALITY FOR ALL THE RIGHT OF JUSTICE THE REVRENMCE OF TRUTH AS THE CORNERSTONE AND BACKBONE OF ALL PEOPLE" DISCRIMINATION IS A CRIME IT IS UNACCEPTABLE. THE SUPERIORITY OF ONE OVER ANOTHER IS ABOLISHED AND REJCTED AS PLAUSIBLE IN ANYWAY.. I SAY TO MY BROTHERS IN REVOLUTION RETURN TO PRAYER AS ONE DO NOT EVER FORGET THAT IT WAS THE ALLL THAT SOUGHT CHANGE NOT THE FEW BUT THE MANY. THE MANY WHO ARE TRUE BELIEVERS IN WHAT YOU ACCOMPLISHED WITH THE GRACE AND WILL OF "THE ALMIGHTY" IS FAR RAECHING AND THEIR HAS NEVER UNDER THE PRESSURE THAT WAS PUT UPON YOU BY MANY WICKED PEOPEL WHO HAD TREMENDOUS MILITARY MIGHT BUT THEY WERE UNSUCCESFUL AND THEY WILL NEVER BE ALLOWED TO GAIN SUCH POWER OVER YOU AGAIN SO ISAY TO ALL SEEK THE COUNCIL OF THE "KNOWER OF ALL FOR HE WAS YOUR TRULY YOUR DELIVERER" DO NOT BELEIVE THE CREDITATION OF MAN TO WHAT WAS AN SURMOUNTABLE TASK ONE THAT WAS FAR ABOVE YOUR REACH YET YOU TRIUMPHED SO TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED AND SHOW THE SAME LOVE AND INTEGRITY THAT IS A LESSON TO THE WORLD . KEEP IN MIND THATTHE POWER THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN YOU IS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE TO BE USED SPARINGLY AND GRACIOUSLY FOR ALL IS EQUAL . EQUALITY IS THE ACCEPTANCE THAT" HE" MADE BOTH HE AN SHE AND WITRHOUT ONE THE OTHER THERE IS NO LIFE.THE ONLY ACCEPTED PARTNERSHIP IS IN THE FAMILY THEY BOTH HAVE THE ESPONSIBLITY TO GUIDE THE HOUSE HOLD WITHOUT ONE THE OTHER THERE IS FAILURE. TIMES AND KNOWLEDGE INCREASETH DAILY THE EVOLUTION OF THOUGHT NEVR REMAINS STATIC SO THE WISENESS OF OUR "CREATOR" DEMONSTRATES WHAT THE THINKS IS RIGHT BY THE MANIFESTATIONS OF WHAT IS OCCIRRUING AROUND US THE TIME S ARE FRO US TO VISIONARY AND SEE ALL THE THINGS WE TAKE FOR GRANTED . WE ARE NEVER TO WISE TO LEARN AND THE POWER OF CHANGE IS BEYOND US , HOWEVER IT DOES NOT MEAN TO EMBRACE IDOLATRY OR SODOMY OR IMMORALITY OR CORUPTION WE ACN BE DEMONSTARTIVE OF ALL OUR HUMAN VALUES BY ALLOWING THE UNRESTRAINED FREE VALUSE OF ALL BAR THE ONES KNOWN TO BE AN ABOMINATION. ANYALCOHOL AND CHEMICAL DRUGS SHOULD NOT BE PERMITTED FOR THEY CONFUSE AND LEAD TO IMORAL BEHAVIOURS. A RIGHTEOUS PERSON ACCEPTS RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM ALL THE PARTICIPANTS FOR NONE OF US IS CAPABLE OF DETERMINING WHAT MANNER OF SECT OR DENOMINATION IS ACCEPTABLE FOR ON THAT DAY THE TRUMPET BLOWS WE WILL ALL HAVE TO ANSWER ONE AND ALL FOR HIS WORKS AND NO ONE CAN CLAIMDENOINATION OR SECT OR TO ASK FOR INTERCESSION ON YOUR BEHALF BECAUSE YOU CALLED SOMEONES NAME OR YOU KNOW SOMEONE THESE ARE FOR "HE" OUR CREATOR TO DECIDE DID WE KNOW HIM AND DID WE DO HIS WORKS" THE TRUE WILL OF MAN IS INCONSEQUENTIAL THE TRUTH IS IN ALL OUR HEARTS WHAT WE DO ON EARTH IS ALL OUR CHOICE TO DO. THE TRUTH IS AVAILABLE TO ALL NO ONE IS VOID OF THE TRUTH SO WE ALLOW MAN TO SEEK HIS ONW PATH FOR ONE THNG WE MUST CHERISH IS THAT" OUR TRUE SAVOIUR" IS "HONERABLE" AND ABOVE ALL" VERY COMPASIONATE" " ALLOW YOUSELVES THE DIGNITY OF BEING TRUE TO YOUR REVOLUTION THE REVOLUTION WAS THE REVOLUTION FOR THE TRUTH THE JUSTICE THE EQUALITY OF ALL GEYPT"
ALL THE PEOPEL SHOULD RETURN TO YOUR COMMUNITTES AND HOLD MEETINGS WITHIN YOUR COMMUNITTES AND SELCT A BODY FROM EACH COMMUNITY WITH AN AGENDA THAT WILL THEN BE DISCOVERED AMONGST THE GORUP LEADRS WHO THEN FOR THE EARLY YERAS OF THE REVOLUTION FORM COALLITIONS TO RUN UNDER YOUR REVOLUTINARY BANNERS THE PEOPLES REVOLUTIONARY PARTY" THE PARTY OF UNFIFIED CHANGE" THE REVOLUTIONARY YOUTH OF EGYPT"THE NEW EGPYTIAN REFORM MOVEMENT" WHAT YOU DECIDE AND HOW IS UP TO YOU BUT IF YOU CHOOSE NAMES FROM YOUR COMMUNITTIES AND COME TO THE SQUARE AND SHARE YOUR REPRESENTATION THERE AND YOU WONT MISS OU ON ANY THING . YOU MUST ORGANISE FROM WITHIN ALL YOUR CONSTITUENCES OR NEIGHBORHOODS THEN YOU FROM ALLAIANCES AND THEN YOUEXPAND. ALWAYS REMBER LITTLE BY LITTLTEYOU REACH THE DOOR" ONE MORE THING NEVER DESPAIR YOUR FATIH HAS BROUGHT YOU MUCH SUCCESS SO DO NOT BEOVERCOME WITH WHAT MAY SEEM INSURMOUNTABLE FOR THE MOUNTAIN IS YOURS SO IF YOU CHOOSE TO DO SO DO IT BUT NEVER LOS FAITH THIS IS THE KEY TO YOUR HAPPINES" " MAY THE ALMIGHTY GOD" BLEES YOU ALLL AS ONE GREAT NATION" "PEACE AN LOVE"
Egypts Islamist's certainly threaten democratic reform, justice and equality for the Egyptian People. The Military Council are corrupted by Salafi Extremists. All these on-going media claims of mubarak and ministers of the ex regime being sentenced by the military supreme council are all false. The chaos in egypt is due to the release of dangerous criminals from prisons all over the country, by mubaraks regime. Does the world know that there are thousands of criminals on the rampage throughout the county??? It's not the US or Israel's fault. Corruption and religious extremism by the regime is the main cause. Lawlessness is at its peak, since the revolution. Christian copts are targeted by armed gangs. Daily, coptic women and children are abducted, drugged and raped by armed gangs. The victims are sexually exploited & forced to denounce their christian belief and accept islam as their new religion. Saudi arabia is funding the islamization of coptic christians. In every attack on Copts, criminals are protected by the authorities and never punished by the law. Its the coptic victims that are arrested and imprisoned by the authorities. This is just injustice!!! Churches and Christian businesses and villages continue to be attacked by salafi extremists. When will this ever stop??? Egypt will not get better until law & order is restored, by imprisonment of criminals with a new democratic government, supported by the U.N. The world is asleep at the wheel, believing everything is honky dory in Egypt, since this years revolution. Egypt is drowning, day after day. Sadly, the country is in a mess .Everyone is now suffering in this atmosphere of corruption, inequality and injustice