"I can't understand how the world can just watch."
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Feb 2, 2011 at 7:08am
Claire,
twitter is not perfectly working here.
I have only peaceful photos from yesterday.
Here you can see live http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ what's going on now.
Thousands of people trapped, many children and women. Many of my friends. Many journalists. A massacre is happening!!!!!!!!
I can't understand how the world can just watch. Mubarak needs to call his thugs back!
Claudia
Claudia Wiens Photography
Turkey/Egypt
(Claudia is a friend and colleague with whom I've worked here in Istanbul.)
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Jun '10
Re: "I can't understand how the world can just watch."
The Tiananmen crackdown worked. The Iran crackdown worked. Mubarak is letting history be his guide.
Sep '10
Re: "I can't understand how the world can just watch."
I can hear it now on Al Jazeera. Horrible.
Nov '10
Re: "I can't understand how the world can just watch."
I wouldn't put it past the Muslim Brotherhood to stage this kind of thing to fan the flames. Just saying.
Jul '10
Re: "I can't understand how the world can just watch."
Pro-Mubarak forces charged the crowd on camels.
Now that's something you don't see much of anymore.
Sep '10
Re: "I can't understand how the world can just watch."
I wouldn't either. I was reacting to the violence itself, though, and regardless of who is the ultimate perpetrator its still horrible to watch.
Nov '10
Re: "I can't understand how the world can just watch."
How can the world NOT "just watch"? Which of the former "colonialist" powers could intervene?
Our President already has, in my opinion, said too much (if, as reported, he spoke of having religious forces included in any new government). And, we do not have the spare infantry division and armored brigade required to act effectively.
I am not saying that I don't wish for intervention; I simply do not know how a foreign power(s) can do so and not wind up as an enemy of the people and state of Egypt.
The UN as a keeper of the peace? Utterly ineffective, I'll warrant and, besides, nobody has the ready force and the lift capacity to do anything without our taking the lead.
And, in any event, would the Egyptian Army stay in barracks if a foreign force intervened? I somehow doubt it.
Any ideas, Ricochevians?
Jul '10
Re: "I can't understand how the world can just watch."
My thought, exactly. I mean, I understand, the woman is there, witnessing violence, but what would she have us do? Drop in the 101st Airborne?
Dec '10
Re: "I can't understand how the world can just watch."
Just picked up some news on a blog from Israel monitoring short wave radio that the Egyptian Army is moving agressively to wrest control of the situation from Cairo to Gaza cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood and any other opposition. Rumors also that Jordan is doing the same. Impossible to know what is really happening. It looks like the Egyptian people may be about to lose another round in a brutal power struggle.