A documentation of crimes and human rights violations of the Massacre of Rabaa Square in Egypt
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توثيق للجرائم وانتهاكات حقوق الانسان التي تم ارتكابها من قبل الجنود في مجزرة ميدان رابعة التي ارتكبت في ميدان رابعة بمصر بتاريخ 14/ اغسطس / 2013 وتم كتابة التوثيق بواسطة مجموعة من شهود عيان من الاخوة والاخوات في مصر وفي هذا التوثيق سرد لمجريات الاحداث وتسجيل لجميع جرائم الحرب وانتهاكات حقوق الانسان التي تم ارتكابها من قبل الجنود في ميدان رابعة
Full Documentation of crimes and human rights violations in the Massacre of Rabaa Square in Egypt committed on 14th Aug 2013 , the documentation is written by a group of Egyptian eyewitnesses .The documentation includes a list of the names of victims of the massacre .
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The
massacre of rabaa between narration & documentation
- 1.
The Massacre of Rabaa Between Narration & Documentation Prepared by:
Yaser Selim Amany AboZaid Nour Saad Menna Al-Hadary Asmaa Shehata Reviwed
by: Translated by: Dr. Gehan Deeb Gehad Gaber Mohamed Reda Selim Sara
Eldesoky Mohamed Kamal Designed by: Marwa Ads Rawand Abdull
- 2. Dedicated To the
nymphs of the earth and the Knights of the heaven, To the soil irrigated
with blood, To the eyes and the shreds leading up to Eden, To the veins
riddled with shrapnels, To the prison walls captivating the purest in the
homelands, To the hearts grasping hot coals despite tribulations …
- 3. The first flow
of blood .. a paper A poor printing and bad drafting paper spread throughout
Egypt in the hands of youth who knew nothing about it except its contents.
They went to the markets and public places asking for signatures. That
shedding blood sheet was called ‹Rebel›; signatures were provided in
ignorance covered in the name of rebellion. The Egyptian media fed this
practice. The June 30 was like the Festival Day of the Pharaoh›s
magicians. Their goals were scattered, as their hearts were: some of them
called for earlier presidential elections, others called for the unseating
of the ‹Islamic› President, and others did not know what they wanted, or
rather what was wanted to them. Meaningless alliances, fronts and
coalitions arouse preparing for the witnessed day. The Islamists and many
patriots realized the plot being hatched against the country and dignity.
They decided to gather and demonstrate in Rabi›a Al-Adaweya Square. The
June 30 came with a plot that was unfolded on July 3. It was that day when
the Egyptian army cooperated with the Egyptian media that played a
misleading role - as usual - in marginalizing those protestors who were in
Rabi›a from the scene. On the other hand, they videoed the demonstrators
against Pres. Mohamed Morsi at AlTahrir Square and Al-Itihadeya using the
military helicopters whose shots exaggerated their actual numbers. Crowds
scrambled to Rabia Square after President Morsi had been deposed and
kidnapped to emphasize their stand supporting legitimacy and right and
rejecting any negotiations with the military coup and its government. The
game of transmitting rumors and false news began to defame the sit-in
figures with the intent of dispersing the people around them. On the other
hand, many of the leaders of the Muslim
- 4. Brotherhood and
other Islamist parties have been detained. As a result, there was a strong
reaction represented in the stability of the protesters and the increase
of their numbers; so that the sit-in sites expanded to include Rabi›a
Adaweya Square, AlNahda and Al-HarasAl-Gomhori. New sit-in sites emerged,
such as Mustafa Mahmoud Square and Al-Alf Maskan Square, as well as the
main squares in the governorates. This stability scared the coup forces,
so they decided to try the first stage of the counter-violence against the
peaceful protestors . Al-Haras Al-Gomhori Massacre: A Massacre of
Worshippers (Dawn of July 8, 2013) Security forces opened fire on
protesters during the dawn prayer till the early hours of the morning.
Women and children were besieged in Al-Mustafa Mosque and were showered
with gas bombs. This resulted in more than 111 martyrs, 1000 wounded and
huge numbers of detainees. Having unveiled the face of brutal bloody coup,
disseminating lies began. It was alleged that the demonstrators did
initiate to open fire on the Republican Guard forces. There were other
falsehoods which are destroyed by the true testimonies of the eyewitnesses
and videos of the massacre. In fact, all the dead and wounded were
protesters, and none of the officers or soldiers were injured except for
an officer. It was said that he refused to murder people, so he was shot
immediately by his leader. Al-Menassa Massacre (July, 27, 2013) The
demonstrators withdrew from Al-Haras Al-Gomhori site to join those who
were at Rabi›a Square. Throughout the period of the sit-in, their numbers
increased that the sit-in expanded in Al-Nasr Road from Tiba Mall
direction to reach a place called Al-Menassa (The Platform / The Monument).
As the armies of occupation do, the Pro-Morsi demonstrators were surprised
by the * Rabia Square was selected for two reasons: not to engage in
side-clashes with the protestors of Al-Tahrir Square and Al-Itihadeya
Palace, and because Islamists gathered there before.
- 5. snipers› bullets
from all sides, especially after the soldiers came to Al-Azhar University
buildings and showered them with live bullets with no humanity. The place
was filled with pure blood and sheds; the martyrs were more than 136 and
4500 wounded. Arrests of the figures of the Islamic movement were made.
They were prominently accused of inciting to kill demonstrators. The
demonstrators restored power quickly after the massacre. They assured they
would continue till the return of the legitimate president Mohamed Morsi
to his legal position. They received threats that the army would put an
end, very soon, to their sit-in by dispersion. Helicopters continued
throwing threatening papers on them in Rabi›a and Al-Nahda. The coup media
did not stop misleading the society; they pictured the demonstrators at
Rabi›a signal as a handful of armed traitors to the homeland aiming to
destroy the State institutes. Ramadan (an Islamic month) finished, and Eid
al-Fitr passed; however, the demonstrators over time were filled with
faith and confirmation, and so continued their sit-in. They tried to
secure their square - as much as possible - with sand borders and light
stones. They guarded the square gates turn by turn expecting a near
attack. In the early morning hours of August 14, 2013, a disaster struck.
The army and the police killed more than 2000 martyrs. The names of 825
are mentioned here at the end of this document. There were, according to
the narrations, more than 10,000 wounded, missing and detained. It was the
most horrendous massacre in the Egyptian modern history. From the first
moments of the army convoys breaking into the square, we begin our
documentation and listening to eye-witnesses on this heinous crime; a
crime that will remain a black stain on the pages of the coupists and
their supporters either from thugs or delegators. But first we ask Allah
for righteousness and stability.
- 6. * Steadfastness
in the Dispersion Massacre: Rabi›a Square was crowded with thousands of
people sitting-in: youth, elderly, men, women, and children. Daylight was
accompanied by inhuman men, or beasts, whose only job was to snipe and
kill. In such a scene, people only think of escaping from death and
bullets. No one expects that the weaponless sits in, who have nothing but
their faith, could face the nowadays Mongols. Notwithstanding, to be
truthful with God is beyond any expectation and exceeds the limits of
human imagination; this was their lethal weapon. It was this sincerity to
what they say or do that made them heroes for generations to come, even
after a long period. Their faith was heart-rooted to bring them closer to
the Prophet Mohammad’s kith and martyrs. Testimonies are documented to be
words of glory and dignity.
- 7. A night at
Rabi›a Square›s Sit-in
- 8. * The first
moments: The attack on Rabi›a Al-Adawiya Square began at six o›clock in
the morning from a place called ‹Tiba Mall› on Wednesday, August 14, 2013.
Dr. Mohammad Esam Mansoor: We slept an hour and half after dawn till 6:00
a.m. We woke up when everybody was shouting: “Emergency! Emergency!”
Everyone went to his spot preparing the first aids. Niveen Khalil: I
prayed the dawn prayer by the Platform. At 6:00 a.m., Dr. Beltagy asked
everyone in tents to go there. Camera: Niveen Khalil Doaa Eweida: At 6:00
a.m., I woke up upon hearing one of us asking everybody in tents to get
out, since the shooting started by Tiba Mall. I woke my sister up quietly
to go together to the Platform where we found Dr. Salah and Dr. Safwat
also calling people to get out of their tents
- 9. Camera: Sohaib
Shabana Hamdi Ahmed Khalil: The incidents began at 6 o'clock a.m. I was
there. The attack started from a place called Tiba Mall overlooking Nasr
Road and from all the main and sub-streets. Clouds of tear gas covered the
place. Snipers were on the around buildings; and helicopters were hovering
above our heads as if we're in a battlefield. Camera: Othman Ads. Abdullah
ELSharkawy: I woke up at nearly 6:30 a.m. to hear the news that the
killers had begun their attack from Tiba Mall direction. We began to move
our martyrs and wounded. A helicopter was flying at a low height. Strong
tear gas bombs fell heavily, penetrating the eyes, the respiratory system,
and the nervous system.
- 10. Camera: Othman
Ads Amr Albeheery: I was in the mosque when I heard a sudden sound
outside. I got out and found attack and retreat, gas bombs, and the police
with seven armored vehicles. Rokaya Mohammad Alkhodary: Dr. Beltagy told
us that the armored vehicles of the police and army are on their way to
the square. So, everybody kept shouting “Stand and protect your square!”
At 6:55 o'clock a.m, we saw a black thick smoke coming from Tiba Mall
side. We heard sounds of firing shots onto all the square sectors.
- 11. The first two
martyrs in the Dispersion Massacre - Camera: Bahaa Arrazy Aalaa
Abdarraheem: I woke up terrified on hearing the sound of the shooting so
close to us at Tiba Mall street. It was the first attack on this area. It
always happened at the Monument Street and Attayaran Street. The shooting
was continuous and loud. There were different sounds of various weapons.
Nearly every minute, a specific sound, louder and clearer than the others,
was heard out of a bullet shot. Later on, I knew that it was the snipers’
Camera: Othman Ads
- 12. Mahmood Alameer:
When we first heard the shooting sound, there were neither microphones to
warn nor fire engines to disperse us with water inside the square. As for
the outside, the inhabitants said that microphones and fire engines were
used, but this is not certain because, unfortunately, no one of those who
were outside is still alive. Esmaeel Arafa: I woke up almost at 6:30 a.m.
to hear the demonstrators' calling “Allah is Great” along with the sound
of shooting. I ran out of the tent to check the situation. Everybody was
ready and the first gas bomb came from Tiba Mall’s direction. I ran back
to the tent to put the mask and wear my shoes. We thought the shooting was
coming from one direction, but we saw smoke emitting from the direction of
Kentucky Restaurant at Attayaran Street. We knew they became insane and
began the dispersion. The worst we imagined was that they would disperse
us in three streets and leave the fourth for us to escape. However, after
fifteen minutes, we realized that we had been under attack from all ways
in and Al-Sisy started a complete genocide. Camera: Mosaab Ashamy Doaa
Emad: I woke up at 6:30 a.m. and everyone was yelling: “Wake up! The army
is getting ready to shoot.” I got up scared and ran out of the tent.
- 13. Dr. Omama
Al-Husseiny: It was 6:30 a.m. when one of my sisters entered the tent I
was sleeping in. She woke me up saying: “Omama! Wake up; the tanks are
heading to the square, coming from Tiba Mall’s direction.” Ahmad Alkooly:
The break-in began with direct strikes using live bullets that I myself
saw a wounded man whose hand was torn to pieces by bullets. They did not
stop our sit-in with water or gradual steps as they claimed. Otherwise,
the first step they meant was firing the live bullets; what followed was even
worse.
- 14. * أThe break-in weapons: Dr. Mohammad
Esam Mansour: An apache helicopter flied over us and killed anyone holding
a camera or videoing with a mobile. It was the first time for me to see an
apache firing and killing doctors, engineers, women and children! I knew
it killed all cameramen. There were spies among us communicating with this
helicopter to kill some of the platform characters: a poet, a folk singer
or a cheerer. Naglaa Salih: I saw helicopters throwing tear gas bombs and
shooting youth. Camera: Mosaab Ashamy Ahmad Al-Kholy: The police weapons
varied between heavy machine guns, gas and sonic bombs, or cartridges.
Snipers were everywhere. There was also a helicopter that was hovering at
a low altitude. Esmaiel Arafa: Bullets of all kinds: grenof, machine guns,
pistols and cartridges. There were snipers on the buildings and
helicopters.
- 15. Emad Eddin
Al-Sayed: There were many hunting lines. A sniper took a line crossing the
square. Anyone crossed the line would be murdered at once so that people
could not gather and be in scattered groups. A sniper's task was to cut
the aids' lines. We saw many murdered before us on those lines. I was able
to video with Mohammad Maher on a front line behind Rabi'a mosque.
Unfortunately, I was caught and hit, and my camera was confiscated. * Victims
of the break-in: Dr. Mohammad Esam Mansour: There were too many wounded
people, tens of corpses, a burst head, a cut leg with an unknown shot, or
a person with half face. The bullets we know were rare. Those people were
shot with something strange. What kind of a bullet that separates half of
a head, cuts a thigh, or penetrates the belly or chest leaving 10 cm hole?
I tried to help people preventing their bleeding, providing medical
solutions, and making splints. While we were helping them, we could not
feel our bodies as they were numb. No one ever imagined such a dawn. In an
hour and a half, there were about 300 wounded and dead.
- 16. Fatima Khalid: I
saw a martyr whose intestines were put over his body in a plastic bottle.
Ismael Arafa: I saw someone with a bullet in his head. He could be cured;
however, there was no place. I saw a woman carrying her dead baby and did
not know what to do. I saw a martyr with a half skull. I saw fingers and legs
cut, and eyes out of their heads. Camera: Sara Alaa Dr. Omama Al-Husseini:
I saw strange injuries. Other than the normal cartridge, there was another
kind of cartridges that exploded inside the body. Bullets like gears with
pointed edges were pulled out of bodies. There were body-penetrating
bullets, cartridge bullets shot in the eye and head, and gas bombs
exploding over people’s heads causing immediate death. I saw heads
separated from their bodies and saw cut hands and arms. We relieved
whoever we could and referred the critical cases to Rabi'a Medical Center.
- 17. Dr. Fatma
Bayyad: All the dead were as if killed by a canon; heads were burst and
wounds reached 20cm. Camera: Othman Ads
- 18. Dr. Lamya Mayar:
I have little experience in forensic medicine, war wounds and surgery. But
awkward questions raised here: Which shot having power to destroy the
thoracic cage and cause a 10 x5 cm diameter hole?! Which shot having power
to fragment the arm and turn it into a big paste?! Which shot having power
to fragment the head as if it was run over by a car?! Which shot having
power to cut flesh and bones into pieces and cut the face into two?! Which
INNOCENT shot having power to fragment the jaw to make a mass of flesh,
bone, skin and blood?! Camera: Sara Alaa Dr. Ahmad Fahmy: The first
wounded got in the hospital dying; he was shot in the chest. The second
was shot in the head and part of his brain was out. The third's whole
brain was in the hands of someone carrying the body.
- 19. Mohammad Khalid
Al-Dib: A man over 60 was carried into Rabi'a martyrs morgue, Media Center
previously. I was shocked and yelled at people not to look at him, but
this attracted them to look and ask for a physician. I went to check him,
but found his skull was crashed and his brain was out. What is horrible is
that despite this, he was still alive. I kneeled and didn't know what a
book of medicine might state how to treat such a case. The man was
uttering something, but all I could do is to put his skull together and
put his brain back, then I left. Everybody, among them was his son, yelled
at me: “Do something! Tell us what to do!” I explained the case to them
that any attempt to save his life would torture him and we should let him
rest in peace. I left him. My heart was filled with utter helplessness, a
feeling that overwhelmed the place. Even senior and clever physicians did
not know what to do with such a case. For half an hour, the man was dying.
I passed by every ten minutes; his soul was coming out more and more,
taking my own soul in weakness and pain. How the coupists want us to go on
our lives as normal and sane in a society that hailed what happened to us?
Only one word can describe how I felt: impotence. Allah will suffice us
against those who killed us and those who were content with it.
- 20. * Scenes from
Rabi›a Al-Adaweya Square: Sagida Abd El-Naser Haggag: I saw a Mongolian
child sitting calmly beside his old grandmother who takes care of him. He
was crying silently and innocently in fear and panic. I also saw a mother
of three children; the third is an infant whom she escaped with in order
to hide him, and left the other two in crowd with a women. Food and water
were distributed and given to us while we were besieged from all
directions by the Army, Police and aircrafts. I saw someone who carried my
sister after she fell on the floor due to toxic gas asphyxiation; she was
screaming out of severe pain. Someone else suddenly helped us and carried
her on his shoulders. I saw the Heaven between my eyes and felt that it
really deserves suffering and sacrifice. I saw someone entrusted himself
and decided to put his head on the floor sleeping until a bullet would
target him from any direction. I saw our tent and others' burning and
falling to ashes. I noticed a sheikh who was carried on his son's
shoulders. “Daaaaaaad!” screamed the son whose father fell down near me
and the insides of his head were all coming out. Fatima Khalid: I saw a
woman who sat with her two children crying beside a martyr. «I want you to
be like these martyrs in order to go to Heaven», she said to her children.
Naglaa Salih: I saw someone whose brain was coming out of his head to be
caught by some youth and be buried with him. Moreover, I saw children who
died out of gas asphyxiation. *Alshahada in Islam is an Islamic creed
which declares belief in the oneness of God and acceptance of Muhammad as
God›s prophet. The declaration in its shortest form reads: There is no god
but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.
- 21. Then, he died
as a martyr with a smile on his face. I saw a person who was severely
injured by a cartridge; however, he bandaged his injury so fast and went
back to the confrontation, standing in front of a huge army with a stone
in his hand. I remember a fasting woman who refused to have Iftar
(breaking one›s fast) as she loves to meet Allah in the Heaven while
fasting. Ramy Foad Hafez: There was a woman weeping as her son was
bleeding heavily. There was a child who was trying to awake his dead
father. A fountain of blood was pouring from the injured and drowning the
coat of the doctor who was trying to prevent bleeding. A nurse fell on the
floor and said while weeping «Why is that? Why is that?» A man was crying
while carrying his brother with part of his brain visible out of the
broken skull. Anonymous corpse was thrown there. There was also a man
whose heart has stopped and at least 15 doctors rallied around him trying
to revive him. Another man was carrying a corpse while insulting and crying.
I saw a doctor who lost his nerve and began yelling here and there. I saw
a young excellent doctor who was trying to stitch an injured, but his hand
was shivering, so the needle fell 10 times at least. A slightly injured
man was shocked by the horror of what he saw. He prayed for us, left the
reception room, pressed his injury with gauze, and said «Thanks be to
Allah that I'm alive and able to breathe.» A worker was pushing with a
venous device in his hand, but his foot slipped in a pool of blood. Another
old man slipped in it when he was pulling my shirt; he cried and said, «I
know that you are so busy, but my son is almost dead and I want to be sure
of his death by any doctor before burying him. Maybe he's still alive; so
I wouldn't be unjust to him.» I went to check his son and found that half
of his head was not there. I looked into the grieved father's eyes.
Speechless! He then understood and said to me, «Thanks son.» He carried
his dead son and left!*I saw a young
man as soon as I moved beside, a bullet shot him in the neck raising his
index finger and saying, «There is no God but Allah.»
- 22. Hager Khalid: I
saw bulldozers running over the martyrs and their belongings with no
sanctity or shame. Moreover, I saw police and army officers sharing the
properties of the dead, what is left or fit for use. Camera: Mosaab Al
Shamy Ahmed Alkholy: Unforgettable women: I remember a woman wearing two
gowns, breaking bricks and putting the pieces in her outer gown
transferring them to the front lines for defence. Another woman did not
stop motivating men and reminding them of Du'a (prayer). She was moving
among us infecting us with a strange positive energy. I am not
exaggerating if I say that the woman kept doing so for not less than seven
hours.
- 23. Unforgettable
Men: A supermarket owner closed his shop but left all the fridges of Pepsi
and juice available. Demonstrators took the goods and put the money in the
fridge drawer. No one ever stole or took something for free, but rather
sometimes they put more money when they did not find change. I remember a
man, all along the month of Ramadan*, telling the people when Dawn was
about to come, «Have your Suhoor* first, then give me money.» If I hadn't
witnessed those scenes myself, I would have said that they are mere
stories and tales. Camera: Othman Adss * Ramadan is the ninth month of the
year in the Islamic calendar on which Muslims fast from dawn until sunset.
Muslims all over the world abstain from food, drink, and other physical
needs during the daylight hours. As a time to purify the soul, refocus
attention on God, and practise self-sacrifice, Ramadan is much more than
just not eating and drinking. * Suhoor is an Islamic term referring to the
meal before the dawn during the Islamic month of Ramadan.
- 24. * The Field
Hospital: Nahla El-Haddad: On that day of dispersing Rabi'a sit-in,
clinics were stormed and evacuated by the police. We were forced to exit
from the back street. We kept stand waiting for what would happen while
some people were carrying their dead and wounded sons on their hands and
searching for transport. At that time, I saw a fire coming up from the
clinic building and I ran towards the building until an officer, who was
blocking the street, stopped me. I yelled and asked him:»Did you set fire
on the floor from which this flame is coming?!!». He said: «Yes.» I said: «But
there are injured persons at a room inside. I took photos of them myself.»
He said: «No. We made sure that they all were dead.» I said: «No. I am
sure there were injured people.». He said: «OK! We did not see them!»
Later on, I made sure that some injured died after fighting fire; their
corpses and arms were crooked or extended beside the martyrs' charred
corpses in a sleeping state. Camera: Nahla Al Hadad Doaa Oweida: When I
reached the field hospital gate, I was astounded and dismayed by what I
witnessed. The street which was full of vibrant tents changed; ashes and
bullets everywhere; a mixture of heavy blood and ashes covered the ground.
The state of the ground nauseated me; ashes mingled with water in attempts
to extinguish the
- 25. fire. This all
was covered with heavy blood while the dead and injured ones were crammed
into the hospital to the extent that the by-stander was afraid of
disturbing their continuous passing. Camera: Sara Alaa Naglaa Salih: The
field hospital was completely filled with corpses; what you have seen in
the videos is nothing! Corpses were on the four floors. We began to treat
the injured at the Media Center and Rabi'a Al-Adaweya Masjid as the field
hospital was full. The hospital began shrouding the bodies of martyrs
without washing and wrote down their names as seen in order to facilitate
recognizing them by their families. Camera: Othman Ads
- 26. Mahmoud Al-Amir:
I entered Rabi'a Medical Center to search for the corpse of a close
friend, but I found that most of the storeys were filled with martyrs
lined beside each other. Later on, I knew that at the end of dispersing
Rabi'a sit-in, all floors were full of martyrs. The center was showered
with bullets piercing the walls. A young woman called Asmaa Sakr was
standing while a bullet penetrated the wall and killed her in the head. A
relative of mine narrated that he was standing in a room of the floor where
the bullet penetrated the wall and many others before it. Ahmed Elkholy:
After 45 minutes of dispersing the square, a doctor at the main field
hospital located on AlNasr road between the traffic and Rabi'a Al-Adawiya
Masjid told me that about 40 persons roughly lost their lives; i.e., every
minute a person died, mostly by live ammunitions. I myself saw such
strange kind of ammunition which cut the flesh of the injured.
Unbelievable! I will not talk about the number of children and infants
whom I found suffering from severe gas asphyxiation. I was discharged from
the hospital to leave a place for any of the injured in need.. ه
Camera: Sara Alaa
- 27. Dr. Ahmed
Elsroi: Aircrafts monitored the protection of some demonstrators at the
field hospital, which was consequently shot many times. We all lied down
due to the heavy tear gas bombs and bullets. Eventually, the forces
stormed the hospital and fired tear gas five meters distance at the
hospital which was crowded with the wounded. All doctors, pharmacists and
volunteers, including students at the Faculty of Medicine, and all
suffocated patients were arrested. No one knows the fate of the wounded by
live bullets, including four serious cases. Then, the hospital was
entirely burned, including the drugs, devices and supplies. I don't know
if there were wounded persons left inside or not! Abdullah Mustafa: I
photograhed the dead and wounded in the field hospital until a central
security armored vehicle entered the hospital and threw a gas bomb. Then,
it fired multilive bullets even though the hospital contained only the
corpses, wounded, doctors, journalists or those who assisted at
transferring the corpses and injured. When the hospital was shot, its
glass was broken and six people were killed, including a person who was
beside me and was shot in the head, and many were wounded. Shooting lasted
for 7 to 10 minutes. Meanwhile, all people lied on the ground, and the
wall bricks were flying and hitting our heads. They kept firing tear gas.
After shooting stopped, I searched for «Omar», but I didn't find him. I
called his name, but there was no answer. I went downstairs to escape the
gas and then went upstairs from another way. When I looked at the other
door from the other way of the hospital, I observed that they set fire on
it, and the people advised us not to exit from this way because it was not
safe anymore. At that moment, the soldiers came in and threatened to kill
anyone they would see. Dr. Ahmed Fahmy: We heard that the policemen were
evacuating the hospital. Consequently, I went upstairs to ask for the
administrative hospital team who was approximately on the fifth floor. The
smell of tear gas was fatal. Does criminality reach that extent of
shooting a hospital with live bullets and tear gas? I went downstairs with
some doctors in attempt to vacate it from the dead and wounded. It was
disastrous not to find someone who could carry the wounded. We had to
leave many of the wounded people in their last throes dying as we could
not carry them. The soldiers shot some of them dead while we were watching
and could do nothing.
- 28. Rokaya Mohamed
Elkhodary We entered the center, but it was completely full of dead and
wounded people. Blood was everywhere, and so was the congestion of those
alive! We went upstairs, but we found all the floors even more crowded! On
the second floor, we saw the martyrs set beside one another and their
faces were like a shining moon. Camera: Sara Alaa Dr. Omama Al-Husseiny:
Rabi'a Mosque and the meeting hall No. 2 were turned into two field
hospitals that began to receive the dead and wounded people. The space was
not enough for the massive number of the dead and wounded. Those whose
wounds could be healed even temporarily were transferred to the
demonstrators' tents in front of Rabi'a AlAdaweya Masjid and Medical Center.
Nevertheless, the Masjid as well as the hall was congested with bodies of
martyrs and the wounded that were thrown on the floor, heavily bleeding
from every part of their bodies. The corpses of martyrs were moved to
another hall inside the Masjid and tents free spaces in the hospital for
the injured. Before Al-Zuhr prayer (A Muslims' prayer after midday), the
new wounded were transferred to Rabi'a Al-Adaweya Medical Center since the
field hospitals could not receive new cases anymore. I entered the hospital
to find it on fire. I looked for my relatives who were sitting there, but
none was there. The place was utterly burning. There remains some of the
wounded people not moved from the hospital yet. I went out from the
hospital
- 29. door (the
meeting hall no.2) and found my friends going out from the Masjid door as
well. At Rabi›a Center, the doctors were forced to leave the place and the
wounded even if they were at the process of doing an operation. Dr. Fatma
Bayad: Suddenly, the burst sound became closer. The hospital and the hall
were targeted by helicopters that launched tear gas bombs. Our emergency
plan was to get rid of our medical ID and to get on civil wear instead of
the operation scrub of doctors. We were informed that we could transfer
the injured to Rabi'a Medical Center. However, as soon as we began to
transfer them, we heard the sound of bursts along with tear gas bombs
thrown at anyone who just came close to the front door of the medical
center. We had to use the tail-door while we were bowing our heads in
order not to be shot with a bullet. The volunteer doctors from the field
hospital entered and got ready; the center had been informed of the
possibility of dispersing the sit-in, so there was only one doctor and one
male nurse. Once the people knew that we had moved Rabi'a Medical Center,
the wounded automatically were referred to us. Most of injuries were fatal
as usual; however, the existence of an operation room gave a glimpse of
hope to those who were in bad need of a surgery. The matter got worse as
we put two operation beds inside one room. When I went upstairs, I found a
wounded person on a bed and at least three others on the floor of the same
room waiting for their turn of surgery. Of course, the numbers of surgeons
were not enough, nor were the room capacity and potentialities. I left the
operation room to find a corridor before the operation rooms crowded with
the lined wounded whose wounds varied from light to middle and severe, but
according to the medical and surgical standards, they could be healed.
Unexpectedly, the hospital walls were badly shaken by a bomb burst I
didn't know its kind. Tear gas bombs were being thrown inside the hospital
entrance. We were certain of the fatality. I looked out from the back
window, but all I found were the wounded and their relatives. I told them
about the hospital attack and that they would be arrested. Then, I went
back to the hospital yard and saw a Special Forces officer dressed in
black and was holding a weapon demanding not to ask him about the type of
the gun, whether automatic or not, in order not to disclose his ignorance
- 30. of weapons.
Afterwards, he shouted at us to go out immediately. We said aloud: «We are
doctors and those are wounded, so we can›t leave them behind.» He sternly
said: «Either you leave or stay with them.» One of the wounded had
fractions due to live bullets, so a doctor wanted to take him, but the
officer threatened him to break his legs or force him to stay with him if
he did so. The situation was hard and depressing! I waited to see what
would happen. I saw that officer forcing the medical staff to go out from
the front door of the center overlooking the Anwar Elmofti Street. I
evaded them and went back again to the hospital garden from the rear door
of the center to be with the injured who were in the garden to the last
second. There was a very horrible scene; everything was being burned, the
Masjid, the field hospital and the media center!!! Dr. Lamia' Mayer: At
09:00 a.m., a march came while I was hiding. I went with them to
El-Tayaran Street then to the Masjid and the field hospital again, but I
was amazed by what I saw; I left the hospital only for one hour, but when
I returned to the external corridor where I was working, I found it
topsy-turvy. The beds were upturned, plaster and cast sacks and the
contents of lockers were thrown on the floor and so were the plants and
everything. I asked people about what happened, but no one knew anything,
and those who knew were dead or escaped. Some people told me that the
soldiers threw a bomb on the corridor; others said that it was a tear gas
bomb thrown at the heart of the corridor. Until now I don't know what
happened! I entered the hall no. 1. Dozens of the wounded and the dead
were still there, but the aids were hardly there. My colleagues were
struggling; I helped them as I could, for I was semi-comatose moving as a
machine. Later on, a new order was issued to move all the injured, wounded
and medicines to Rabi'a Medical Center behind the Masjid to vacate the
field hospital. All that was done and I was broken-down on the ground. I
found the hall No. 2 full of dead; and the hall No.3 full of the dead and
wounded. I left the beloved field hospital that became empty except for
some women who overslept due to exhaustion, two doctors and some workers.
I took some supplies from the pharmacy and went to Rabi'a center, but I
was astonished; five floors of the dead and the wounded. Nonstop whistles
were calling to «make a space», and bullets
- 31. were showered
heavily. I was besieged inside Rabi›a Hospital where the shooting was
before its main glass gate and its small rear gate. The soldiers directly
targeted both gates and they were thoroughly smashed. They began to fire
inside the hospital with gas bombs and we got suffocated. I descended to
the ground floor where someone splashed Pepsi at my face and gave me water
to drink. I went upstairs again with a man; the first floor was like a
pool of blood. In front of us there was an armored vehicle calling for a
safe leave. He pulled my hand and we left the place with others raising
our hands. However, bullets were showered heavily, so we ran to the
hospital and told him that they would arrest everyone getting out of here.
However, we took the risk and changed our way to the field hospital and
Masjid. I was dismayed by what I saw: the field hospital was so cruelly
burning and thick black smoke rushed everywhere. I saw men, women and
children crowded between the halls on fire and the Masjid on a mini
Resurrection Day. I saw men's defeat, killing the Egyptians in the
streets, setting the mosques and hospitals on fire, as well as burning
women and children! I witnessed genocide! Trees, masjids, hospitals and
tents were all burned. Did they use napalm?!! Maybe! Fire was unnatural.
It was not logical to cause such burning with a match and gas! The number
of burned organs I saw was unbelievable. Did they kill people alive? Yes,
they killed them directly with bullets or by burning them alive to avoid
their testimonies on what happened!
- 32. Dr. Hassan
Al-Prince: The mother of all crimes was setting a massive fire to the
hospital including the injured and corpses of martyrs in order to hide a
part of crime! * Dr. Hassan Elbrens speaking about the lies on the corpses
hidden under the rostrum: Some of corpses which were dried after burning
were taken and wrapped in shrouds under the rostrum to claim that these
corpses were victims of demonstrators and were buried under it. This lie
can be rebutted as follows: 1- The new shrouds had no dust or blood. 2-
Hundreds of Egyptians and foreigners who visited Rabi›a Square inspected
under the rostrum. 3- We did not learn about any reports of missed people
all the period of the sit-in long. 4- How were those corpses burned by
demonstrators with no smell or smoke while the rostrum was on air and
surrounded with thousands of people all the period of the sit-in? 5- The
rostrum base was wooden and flammable, and under it there were cables and
computer wires that controlled the broadcast and montage that published
songs and parts of the legitimate president›s speeches. 6- We did not see
any digging by pro-coup under the rostrum immediately after breaking it
down. If this had been done, they would not be hesitated to broadcast it
live by pro-coup media. 7- Neither the police nor the army did take
sniffer dogs in order to detect the places of the buried corpses in all TV
shots that were broadcasted.
- 33. * The Manayfa
block: A symbol of heroism : Mohammad Al-Sanhawy: One of the tremendous
massacres at Rabi'a was what happened at «Al-Manayfa Block», an under
construction building at Al-Tayaran street, beside «Cook Door» Restaurant
and in front of the Mobil Gas Station. According to various testimonies,
that building was a stumbling block for the dispersing forces to have
access to the square. At the end of the day and before storming the square
completely, the building was attacked heavily by helicopters, snipers and
grenof guns. The building was inspected and stormed by the Special Forces
from downstairs to upstairs and vice versa. Murder was their only choice.
At that building, hundreds of men, women and children were murdered
without mercy. A handful of persons who survived told me that the Special
Forces soldiers entered the building after killing the youths who were
protecting it. The Special Forces soldiers kicked the wounded so hard in
the stomach. If a wounded person moaned or made any move telling them he
was still alive, they shot him dead in the head. That man who survived
narrated that he decided to bear all kicks with no sign of groan or move in
order to save his life. He said, «An officer kicked me with his leg in my
stomach, but I did not moan. He jumped high and kicked me again throwing
all his weight on my stomach, but I did not moan. When he made sure of my
death, he left the floor along with the forces after killing all people
there and ascended to the next floor. I waited until they went away and
attempted to escape by jumping from the building to the ground.» I saw
genocide: massive killings, burning the corpses and the wounded, killing the
injured with bullets, ethnic genocide, targeting the paramedics and the
captives in the queue of detainees, using heavy weapons against weaponless
people, setting the mosques and hospitals on fire; all horrible incidents
were there. What happened at Rabi'a was the extreme of disbelief. We shall
not forget or forgive. We shall not neglect the punishment as well.
- 34. The building
named by the demonstrators as «Al-Manayfa Block»
- 35. * Out of Rabi›a
Square : If memories about all what happened fade as we age, the scene of
being forced to leave the square will never fade; memories then are very
stable. This scene will provoke the fuse of return chanting and cheering
'Allah Akbar', rejoicing in God 's victory, praying for Martyrs hoping to
catch up with them. Camera: Mosaab El-Shamy Belal Wahb We weren't defeated
and didn't withdraw. The ground which is beneath us testifies. We were
burned as standing trees until their ripest fruits were fallen down; i.e.,
martyrs… «O Square! If your ground lasted longer before that incineration,
we would stand still in the face of death another day! Doaa Eweida: We
went out but couldn't stop our tears being forced to leave the square in
that way. As soon as we went out, we heard, from a short distance, a
strong sound and saw thick black smoke over the square from the place
which we went out. Then we knew that the criminals have forced the doctors
to get out so that they could set fire to the field hospital housing the
martyrs and wounded remained inside. We went out of the square with
bleeding hearts just saying 'Allah is sufficient for us and He is our best
Guardian.'
- 36. Camera: Mosaab
El-Shamy Naglaa Salih When I went to an exit through Rabi'a hospital, I
found the officers shooting people. The ground was full of blood. Suddenly
an officer said, «Come here and get out...» There were a lot of injured
persons behind me. I passed through the door then to the street
unbelieving that he didn't kill us. A friend told me that a fire engine
sprayed Rabi'a Mosque and its field hospital with petrol. Rabi'a then was
burned. I also knew from Bisan Essam, a friend of mine who's a doctor,
that the policemen ordered the doctors to leave without any wounded
people; otherwise they will be burned as well. All Rabi'a and whoever
there were burned.! Roqia Mohammed Al-Khodary I went down, with Khadiga
and Marwa and was shocked to see the policemen on the ground floor dressed
in black uniforms, clutching their rifles, and looking at us with a
gloating smile saying, «To stay at home is better, isn't it? Come, come
and don't worry, we won’t harm you.» We came out of the hospital through
the back door, overlooking Anwar Al-Mofty St. behind Rabi'a's Mosque.
People left exactly like war captives.!
- 37. Hager Dawood We
exited surrounded by the Special Police forces and armored vehicles. They
hurled their insults at us, and in return we said, «Allah is Sufficient
for us and He is our best Guardian.» Most of us were either the hospital›s
doctors or women. Fatima Khalid : This scene of our exit from the mosque
was unforgettable. We went out as prisoners of war. There were armed
people on the two sides pointing their weapons to our faces and wearing
black uniform. Their bodies are wrapped by weapons called «special band».
We were forced to pass between them and knew that this was a “safe exit»!!
How? When we were going out, there were guns shooting at us. Martyrs were
being carried by people walking. Our great army and honorable policeman
were laughing and standing upon the armored military vehicle sticking out
their tongues! ! - Aisha Emad: It was more comfortable to die as a martyr
than to exit like that. I stopped and looked at the martyrs saying,
«You're fortunate!» However, I saw the armored military vehicle running
behind us; it was inevitable to walk. Those infidels went out from their
burrows gloating over us but we were trustful in God's victory “Allah is
our Guardian.» We walked in the streets and we didn't know where we were
going. An armored military vehicle and a police's vehicle came by us
shooting to frighten us. We passed by some thugs who were dancing,
cheering and using fireworks. Then we went to AlZahraa Masjid with Port
Said Brothers (Ikhwan). - Doaa Emad: All of us left the Monument Street
«Alnosb Eltezkary». Men were forced to raise their hands during exit as
war captives. They were hit and insulted. If anyone uttered a word, the
officers would shoot beside or above him, or even in the leg. They fired
their weapons while they were ordering us. For example, one was ordered by
the officer to show the identity card with a fire shot, a mean and coward
act.
- 38. Mohammed Basuony
We were ordered by an officer to a certain direction; however, there was
an ambush. We found more officers who dealt with us as detained Jews. They
rudely insulted us and forced us to sleep on our stomach and put our hands
behind our backs. They hit our heads with a machine gun to obey their
orders quickly. They took our mobiles and identity cards. Then, another
officer came and set us to an army ambush. The army abusively treated us
more than the police did. I saw a cross on the hand of the military
officer who ordered the soldiers to abuse us. Then a military senior came
and ordered the officer to release us; consequently, we left the square.
Amr Omran We left raising our hands and looking sharply at them feeling
unsafe. The question raised then: 'How our God did create such creatures
without any humanity?' They were looking on, gloating and insulting us:
“Syrians and terrorists you are!” People were looking at us and
photographing us; we then were certain that they lost their morals and
humanity. We saw bared and trodden dead bodies of children and girls on
the ground. We were frightened to put them a side or even to cover them
up. Dr. Lamia Mayer: It was about six o' clock when I and my friends
decided to exit from a safe way. I went out with a group of people, with a
final look at the officers in black military suits and masks holding very
enormous weapons. Their skin was also swarthy; their bodies were so huge.
They deployed on the ground floor where we were besieged. The armored
vehicle was standing directly in front of the main door; there was a
monster inside it yelling, “The person who is going to exit now will be
safe.” We said, “Allah is sufficient for us.”. Hager Khalid During
vacating the square, they allowed the people to exit as prisoners of war
putting their hands on their heads or behind their backs. Anyone who put
on a mask was beaten nearly to death and then thrown at us.
- 39. Gehad Khalid
Hefzy When we were going out of the square, we were photographed as
prisoners of war. We were sorted at the barriers to take men and let women
go. We were insulted, menaced and threatened by the scoundrels. If they
say that here are the photos of surrendering citizens and they sympathized
with them, and so let them leave peacefully, they will be liars. We went
out after we were slaughtered and choked to get our children back home and
then exit to complete. If they say that they did not harm anyone after
dispersing, they will be liars. After we had been photographed and during
our exit, we were chased in the street by their bombs and shotguns. They
even shot the mosque during the Maghreb prayer, and the Imam asked them on
the microphone to stop shooting till completing the prayer. Romysaa
Ramadan Whenever I listen to someone who witnessed the dispersion of
Rabia's sit-in, I find implications I didn't hear before. Hardly one finds
a story similar to the other, as if there were one hundred thousand
squares equivalent to the number of the people there. On that day,
everyone was running, observing, recording with his eyes and narrating his
own story. I try to follow up everyone who witnessed that day and search
for testimonies of all people. I try to stick puzzle pieces beside each
other to complete the image, but it doesn't become idiomorphic. The more I
hear and follow up, the more the image area expands. So I'm not able to know
its dimensions. Rabia's dispersion is a historical incident; I think that
many years will pass for one to be oriented of what has happened. Stories
will not end throughout the years. We will hear a new thing we have never
heard. Many years will pass to see the image clearly idiomorphic. .
- 40. * When and how
were the dead enshrouded at Rabi›a? - Yaser Selim: Shooting Rabi'a for
dispersing the sit-in started at about 6.30 a.m. and lasted for more than
10 hours until the whole square was completely evacuated. During that
period of time, we built more than a field hospital and prepared more than
a place to receive the wounded and dead. A number of doctors were there to
treat the wounded people and save other cases as much as possible..
- 41. They received
persons who had already died.
- 42. Some people were
there to shroud the dead.
- 43. The names of the
dead were written on the burial shrouds All that was happening during the
shooting and dispersion
- 44. * Al-Iman
Mosque: Given the location of the mosque, located near the end of Makram
Ebeid Street from Nasr Road direction and due to its proximity to Rabi'a
Al-Adaweya sit-in, sitters were able to move many of the dead and wounded
to the mosque to protect them from the savagery of bulldozers and inhuman
fires launched during the break-in. A lot of volunteers moved to the
mosque to treat the wounded and to shroud the dead. They wrote the data of
each martyr on the shroud to facilitate the access of their bereaved
families, and to resolve the difficulties these families would face while
obtaining the burial permits issued in coordination between the Ministry
of Health, the Public Prosecution and the Forensic Medical Authority. On
the other hand, the people of the district transferred the corpses
surrounding the Mosque by their private cars to the Zeinhom Mortuary until
Thursday morning, August 15, 2013. Local and foreign newspaper
correspondents came to Al-Iman Mosque to take photos and make an interview
with the relatives of the victims. Some correspondents who supported the
coup were disguised in fear of the reaction of the people. The news said that
the number of corpses was more than 228. It was difficult to determine the
accurate number as the corpses were transferred outside the Mosque after
the relatives had identified them. Workers inside the mosque assured that
these numbers did not include the reports of the Ministry of Health, which
proves that the number of victims was more than the formal statistics.
- 45. The efforts of
the workers and voluntary doctors inside the mosque continuously exerted,
not only for one or two days, but also for three days. They were willing
persons whose trends and visions are different, or persons who disagreed
with the Ikhwan Group threatening the comeuppance for those martyrs. The
voluntary doctor Mustafa Abd El-Ghany assured that there were a lot of
unknown corpses charred as a result of burning the tents and the Field
Hospital of Rabi'a Al-Adaweya which made it difficult for their relatives
to recognize them. Sound amplifiers were used from inside the mosque
urging the victims’ relatives to exit because of the hot atmosphere and
suffocation caused by the intense crowd; the airconditioners and fans were
not enough. The field hospital inside the mosque asked the volunteers to
bring odor and cleansing materials because the smell of some of the dead
began to be strong as time passed. The victims’ families and relatives
started to transfer the corpses outside and Al-Iman Mosque to move them to
Zeinhom Mortuary. A huge crowd was there; their yelling against the police
was extremely strong accusing them of killing the victims during
dispersing the sit-in. Since the Zeinhom Mortuary was asking the relatives
to sign a report confirming that the deceased was committed suicide to
obtain a burial permit, they declared their intension to start an open
sit-in in the Mosque's area till they would receive and bury the dead.
Many of them did the funeral prayer on the victims in El-Iman Mosque on
Thursday morning, August 15, 2013. It is worth mentioned that the General Abd
El-Fattah Othman announced a statement that the security forces detected a
number of cars which carried corpses from different governorates, and the
corpses were brought by Ikhwan and put in the mosque to be displayed as
Rabi’a's victims. The corpses which were inside Al-Iman Mosque were
exposed to attempts of stealing by the security forces to be buried in
Rabi'a Al-Adaweya. They intended to accuse the peaceful demonstrators of
murder and broadcast this on the TV channels supporting the military coup.
As a result, the crimes of the coup regime increased. This tyrant regime
is undoubtedly responsible for the killing and burning of the
demonstrators in Rabi'a Al-Adaweya, and hence effacing the features of the
crime.
- 46. Camera: Sara Alaa
- 47. * Zeinhom
Mortuary: To kill citizens by their armies of treachery and intrigue means
nothing in comparison to the bargains made on the dead and to the salt
poured on the wounds of the wounded. So did the «great» Army of Egypt, and
did the families of the martyrs who tasted death many times. No longer in
our country are reasons alone prone to become numerous versus a single
death, but death varied too. There are people who were shot dead and
others who died out of the atrocity of the horror scenes, etc. The
violations of the Army were not limited to the bloodshed and killing, but
they exceeded to include the sanctity of death. The army would nearly
catch the processions of martyrs to their graves. Under the human laws,
everything is respectable and sanctified when death comes. Even in the
laws of the jungle, death becomes a red line not exceeded by beasts or
cattle. Notwithstanding, a new barbarism embarked in our country and the
meaning of sanctity vanished from all things. The families of the martyrs
tried to heal their inner wounds and went to Zeinhom Mortuary to issue
reports by the Forensic Authority, and consequently obtain the burial
permits to coffin their martyrs and move them to their graves. They wished
they knew the adversity which would await them. Not only were the tyrants
burning, shooting and distorting, but they also forced the families of the
martyrs – who could identify the bodies of their loved ones– to sign
papers confirming that the deceased committed suicide. Martyrs are honored
everywhere, but in Egypt, they are regarded as 'committed suicide'. Some
people who wanted to honor their dead were forced to sign that paper.
Others refused and protested in front of the mortuary until they could
find a solution for their issue. The alternate solution was to have a
report with «scribbles» written beside the cause of death!
- 48. A burial permit
for a Rabi'a Massacre's victim A disastrous scene: a mother sitting beside
her son's corpse thrown before the Mortuary where the blood prevailed. She
waited for a change in the death cause for obtaining a burial permit.
Marwa, a daughter of a murdered man, Ahmed Abd Elsamad, 48 years, said
that Zeinhoum Mortuary asked her family to sign a report declaring that
her father committed suicide in order to get a burial permit, though her
father was shot dead with two bullets in his shoulder and back. Pierces by
bullets in hearts and chests were not enough! Indeed, it is humanity that
was pierced, ruptured and dispersed! Regarding her brother's murder, the
actress Leqa'a Sweidan witnessed, on lots of TV channels, that a huge
numbers of corpses were at Elkasr Eleiny Hospital and their relatives
could not receive them. The hospital administration and the Ministry of
Health evaded their responsibility of these corpses and the only way to
accelerate the process of obtaining a Death Certificate was to sign a
paper confirming that the deceased committed suicide. That was only if one
was lucky and could identify the body as many dead were charred and could
only be identified with the DNA test. There were mutilated bodies that no
longer a mouth or a nose was identified. There were whole brains cast outside
the skulls.
- 49. Amid all that
misery, due to the crowd, blood and hot temperature of mid-August, corpses
were thrown on the corridors of the Mortuary, even exceeding it to the
surrounding streets and the side piles of garbage. The huge number of
martyrs made it even harder for the families' dogged search process. Each
family divided their members into groups whose tasks were to find out the
dead not the living ones. In order that a girl could find her dead father,
she had to unveil shrouds on hundreds of corpses in a horrible scene not
knowing if she could at the end find him or would he be among those who
were lost. The first night ended, but most of people did not find their
dead relatives. The dead smell was extremely strong. Some people
volunteered with refrigerator cars to accumulate corpses on them. When
cars were full of corpses, people brought ice sacks to be put on the
blooded shrouds. Outside Zeinhoum Mortuary on the day following Rabi'a
Massacre
- 50. In an interview
with Al-Mesryoon Newspaper, Mohamed Abdel Aal, 42, resident at AlKobba
Gardens in Cairo, said: I've come to Zeinhom Mortuary searching for my
brother Ahmed Abdel Aal, 47, a driver, who was absent from home till now.
I searched for him at the police stations as well as government and
private hospitals; however, all these trials were in vain. Eventually, I
came here to search for him among available and unknown corpses at the
Mortuary but in vain. When the dead were displayed on TV, I couldn't
identify my brother's body as most bodies were totally charred. Doctors
there told me to leave my DNA sample in order to be conformed to the
bodies in the Mortuary. The test result would be known in ten days.
Mohamed Hasanein, 26, working for a private company in Cairo, is a witness
inside Zeinhom Mortuary who spent 48 hours at the service of the bodies
that were rotten due to the lack of enough refrigerators. He also assisted
the doctors at necropsy operations without making the security men notice
him. He said that he went to Zeinhom Mortuary on the day of dispersing
Raba'a and Al-Nahda sit-ins as one of his friends' relatives was killed.
His friend is called Haitham Al-Shawaf, a coordinator of the Revolutionary
Force Coalition and a member of June 30 Ftont; he was killed at AlNahda
Square incidents. When I went there, I found so many corpses around the
Mortuary. Its capacity was not enough for such a massive number of dead bodies.
On the next day, I wanted to go to the Mortuary to search for the corpse
of my friend Waleed to bury it. When I was objected by the security men, I
told them the reason why I wanted to enter it, and they allowed me only
see a human disaster of violating the dead sanctity. All corpses were
thrown on the ground. There was no human treatment in necropsy; there was
no stitching of cut parts due to the lack of required materials. I tried
to help the doctors and workers there. I moved the corpses thrown on the
ground to the rooms designated for that. Also, I divided rooms into
certain categories to enable necropsy of more corpses since many were
thrown on the street surrounding the Mortuary for its incapacity to handle
the huge number of corpses. Hasaneen added that because of the lack of
refrigerators, people of Al-Saida Zeinab district covered corpses with
lots of ice not to be rotten due to their stay on the streets for two
days. They also gave shrouds to the relatives of the dead. It was a
disaster that seemed not to end. Indeed, it will not end in the hearts of
those who lived and witnessed it unless perpetrators are punished.
- 51. * The Lies of
Military Operations Commanders about Rabi›a Massacre : General Medhat
Al-Menshawy “The forces did not shoot a single bullet. Officers and
soldiers found bad-smelling shrouded bodies prepared to be filmed for the
Western media.” General Medhat Al-Menshawy, Commander of Special Forces,
stated in an interview published by Alyoom Assabea newspaper.. Major Bahaa
Ashareef
- 52. Ashorook
newspaper published an interposition in Hona Al-'Asima show with Hasan
Moosa, the Head of the Central Security Forces: “The sits in set fire to
the cars in area and threw fire over the police men. They disregarded the
warning to evacuate the square and cooperate with the police. When they
blew up the gas station and fire engines, we had to use gas bombs heavily
and surround them.” Major Ashareef added: “The Minister of Interior and
the Commander of Special Forces recommended the forces to have
self-control and secure the sits in, especially women and children.” Major
Bahaa Ashareef In another interview with Al-Wafd newspaper, Major Bahaa
Ashareef, Commander of Rabaa Operation, said: “Gas and water were the only
weapons used. We started with a warning by microphones and the help of
inhabitants. Then we used sonic vibration vehicles followed by tear gas
and water, heavily and occasionally, to secure a way out for them. The
numbers did gradually decrease. We kept using gas for a long time to avoid
bloodshed.”
- 53. * Rabi›a
Massacre Martyrs: It was harsh to look into the details of the most
austere massacre in modern history. It was terrible to see the burnt or
distorted features of the bodies. I spent many days searching for names,
addresses, photos, and social networking accounts. Sorrow was bleeding
among the letters of obituary and words of elegy. I became a relative to
all martyrs. I have known much about them, their children, spouses,
relatives, study, and their good courses of life. I realize this was the
cruelest task ever to do. However, I found the meaning of cruelty in the
stories told by the relatives about their exhausting journeys in search of
the bodies. A woman sees a photo of a martyr and realizes it is her
father’s. A man tells how his brother’s body was burned. A young lady
cannot believe her groom has passed away. Others could not even find the
bodies; they just saw a photo on Facebook. In addition, many others were
missed. I tried as I could to publish the photos of the dead when they
were alive. We consider them alive as Allah says in His Quran: “But do not
think of those that have been slain in God's cause as dead. Nay, they are
alive! With their Sustainer have they their sustenance.” They went out
there to advocate Allah’s words and stood against the killing machine as
they believed in the Prophet Mohammad’s saying: «The best of all martyrs
is Hamza Ibn Abdul-Mottaleb, and a man who stood up in the face of an
oppressive ruler to enjoin and forbid him and was killed by him.» (Revised
by AlAlbany) We regard them living martyrs stood against the tyrant,
Al-Sisy, who killed and burned them with no mercy even towards a senile or
a young man, a man or a woman. I tried hard to count all martyrs, but it
could be mistaken or incomplete. I apologize for all the martyrs’
relatives for any unintended negligence. I could find 210 photos out of
For any additions or modifications in the second edition to the martyrs’
list (name, photo or address), please don't hesitate to contact us
(twthek@hotmail.com). Yaser Selim
- 54. Some of the
victims of Rabaa massacre.. A photo collage of some of the victims of
Rabaa massacre
- 55. Abdulaal
Al-DaidamonySharkeia Abdulazeem Hussein Shaltoot- Gharbeia Abdulfattah
AlbarbaryQalubeia Abdulghafour Eid Abdulhalim Abo GendiGharbeia Abdullah
Ahmed AlSayed Ibrahim Abdullah Bakry- Fayoum Abdullah Hassan Albanna-
Cairo Abdullah Mohamed Abdulhafeez- Sharkeia Abdullah Rageh- Cairo
Abdullah Sultan Abdullah Yasser Kharouba- Damietta
- 56. Abdullateef
Tawfeek Ahmed- Alexandria Abdulnasser AggagDakahleia ABdulrahman
Aldaidamony- Sharkeia Abdulrahman Al-Sayed Abdeen- Menofeia Abdulrahman
Al-Sayed Al-Sayed- Menofeia Abdulrahman FaragCairo Abdulrahman Hamdy
Mohamed- Cairo Abdulrahman Khaled Al-Deeb- Dakahleia Abdulrahman
MetwallyIsmaelleia Abdulrahman NaderCairo Abdulrahman Nasser Hassan-
Sharkeia Abdulrahman Oweis
- 57. Abdulrahman
Saeed gouda- Cairo Abdulrahman Samy Hamza- Cairo Abdulrahman TahaDakahleia
Abdulreheem YoussefMenoufeia Abo Obaida Kamal AlDeen- Al-Fayoum Aby
Mahmoud ElmasryCairo Adam Hatem AdamCairo Adel AbdulgawadQaliubeia Adel
Sobhy Ali Adel Farghaly Adham Mohamed EzzatGharbeia Ahmed Mahmoud
Alsebaei- Swais
- 58. Ahmed Abdulaal
Alhaddad Ahmed AbdulfattahCairo Ahmed Abdulgawad Ahmed Abdulhamid Bayomi-
Cairo Ahmed Ali Sonbol- Cairo Ahmed Alsarawy Ahmed Amin AlbalkaDakahleia
Ahmed AshrafDamietta Ahmed Diaa FarahatCairo Ahmed Elsayed Hussein Hassan-
Sharkeya Ahmed Essat Abdulmoez- Cairo Ahmed Fathy KamelMenofeia
- 59. Ahmed Galal-
Sarkeya Ahmed Gamal Mostafa Ahmed gomaa Ahmed Alsayed- Cairo Ahmed Helal-
Fayom Ahmed Helmy Abdulmooty- Sharkeya Ahmed KadryAlexandria Ahmed MAhmoud
Ahmed Baz- Sharkeia Ahmed Mohamed Alzanani- Menofeia Ahmed Mohamed
EidSharkeia Ahmed Mohamed Hafez Ahmed Mohamed Hassaan Salem Ahmed Mohamed
Hussein
- 60. Ahmed Mohamed
Shaker- Cairo Ahmed Reda IbrahimSharkeya Ahmed Saad SadafyBany sweif Ahmed
Saeed AhmedIsmaeleia Ahmed Saeed AmmarCairo Ahmed SalahuldeenAlexandria
Ahmed Wahba AlshafeiDamietta Ahmed Yusuf AlafshDakahleia Ahmed Zaky
DiaaDakahleia Alarabi Alsayed Almesedi Ali Khaled Hassan- Cairo Ali
Metwally- Ismaelia
- 61. Almoatasem
Bellah Ahmed MarzoukBanysweif Amir Mostafa BederCairo Ammar Abdo
EmaraMenofia Ammar Salah- Menofia Amr Ali GenedyGharbia Amr Azzam- Cairo
Antar Samir- Cairo Asem Mohamed Ibrahim Al-Gamal Ashraf Abo EssaQaliobeya
Ashraf Sadek Ashraf Shaaban Abdulhamid- Fayuom Asmaa Albeltagy- Cairo
- 62. Asmaa Sakr-
Cairo Atef Mohamed Abdullateeh- Sharkeia Atef Rashed Mohamed Salem-
Sharkeia Atiia Ramadan AttiaQalubia Attia Mohamed AttiaDakahlia Awwad
Sayed TolebaBany Sweif Ayman Kamal AudaQalyobeia Ayman Mahmoud Alshafei-
Gharbeia Ayman Saad Mohamed Abdullah- Sharkeia Ayman Zaki Diaa Foaad
Almasallawy- Menofeia Diab Abdulsalam Ali Diab
- 63. Eid Mohamed
MoslemIsmaelia Elsayed Bakry Emad El-deen Okasha Qasem- Menofia Emad
Khalefa Mohamed- Luxor Emad Mohamed Salem Ibrahim Fahmy Ahmed Abdulmoaty-
Sharkia Fekry Al-MaghalawyKafr Al-Battekh Gamal Alsherif- Sharkeia Gamal
Atian- Albeheira Habiba Ahmed Abdulaziz- Menofeia Haitham ZannounMenofia
hamed Abdullah Negeda- Sharkia
- 64. Hamoud Safi
Farag Abdullah Hamoud ShalabyBehera Hany AbdulrahmanDamietta Hassan
Albanna Eid Hassan- Sheikh Zayed Hassan Ali HammamAlexandria Hassan Sayed
Mahmoud Elgamal- Qaliubeya Haytham SharafMenofia Hend Hesham KamalCairo
Hossam Abdulnasser Fateet- Menofeya Hossam Eldeen AtefMenofeya Hossam
Mahmoud Adawy- Cairo Hozaifa Abdulzaher
- 65. Ibrahim Fawzy
FaresDakahleya Ibrahim Mostafa AlAzab- Gharbeia Ibrahim Mousa Mohamed
EisaMenofeya Ibrahim Ragab EsawyCairo Islam Abbas Almenshawy- Giza Islam
Abdulhamid- Kafr Elsheikh Islam Hassan DarwishMenofeia Islam Mohamed
Abdulhamid- Sharkeia Karim Al-Sayad- Banha Khairy AlmeleegyMenofeia Khalad
Mohamed Osama- Dakahleia Khaled Elleethy- Cairo
- 66. Khaled Walid
ElshalDakahleia Lotfy AbdulmagedAlexandria Maged Yussuf- Cairo Maher Kamal
AlDebeky- Cairo Mahmoud Ahmed Galalin- Luxur Mahmoud Ahmed Matar- Menofia
Mahmoud Al-DengawyDamietta Mahmoud Al-Sayed Gamil- Cairo Mahmoud Amin
QandilMenofia Mahmoud Azab- Sharkia Mahmoud Fathy AlSanhoty Mahmoud
HamedMenofia
- 67. Mahmoud Mohamed
Mohamed- Sharkia Mahmoud Mohamed Sarhan- Menofia Mahmoud Mostafa Maamoun-
Cairo Mahmoud RabeaSHarkia Mahmoud Saad Abdultawab- Cairo Mahmoud Saad
Mahmoud- Ismaellia Malek Al-AshmawyMenofia Malek Safwat Al-ShemyCairo
Mashhout Ali MekkyAl-Behera Medhat Abo Hashem Mahmoud- Sharkia Moamen
Mohsen Saada- Sharkia Moataz Mohamed Helmy Hasanen
- 68. Moaz Sayed
Mostafa Saboalleil- Qalubia Mohamed AbdulbasetCairo Mohamed Abdulhamid
Al-Qassas- Menofia Mohamed AbdulmawlaIsmaellia Mohamed Abdulmenem
Al-Aseel- Damietta Mohamed Abdulrahman Al-Ashram- Dakahlia Mohamed
Abdulrahman Salem- Kafr El-Sheikh Mohamed AbdulwahedSohag Mohamed Ahmed
Fathelbab- Alexandria Mohamed Ahmed Hany Abdulmaksod Mohamed Ahmed Roshdy-
Cairo Mohamed Ali Mohamed- Cairo
- 69. Mohamed Ali
QandilGharbia Mohamed Al-Morsy AlOraby- Damietta Mohamed
Al-SaadanyAlexandria Mohamed Al-ShabrawySharkia Mohamed Al-ShehabyDamietta
Mohamed Atef AlNahrawy- Menofia Mohamed Azab Mohamed Fahmy Sadek-
Alexandria Mhamed Farag Ghobashy- Port Saeed Mohamed GamalQalubia Mohamed
Hassaan Mohamed Kamel Mostafa Ads- Al-Behera
- 70. Mohamed Mahmoud
Yaqout- Cairo Mohamed Meselhy Abduldayem- Menofia Mohamed Mohamed
Abdulaal- Dakahlia Mohamed Mohamed Serag- Dakahlia Mohamed Mostafa Mekawy-
Sharkia Mohamed Othman Shakhroba- Damietta Mohamed RamadanCairo Mohamed
SalahuldeenGiza Mohamed Saleh Abdulbaqy- Menofia Mohamed Salih AlFaramawy-
Cairo Mohamed Samir Mohamed- Qalubia Mohamed Yassen Aggag- Qalubia
- 71. Mohanad Sallam
Shehata Mokhtar Mostafa HelalSharkia Mosaab Al-ShamyAlexandria Mostafa
AbdulgawadMenofia Mostafa Al-Qersh Mostafa Al-Sayed AliAl-Fayoum Mostafa
Mahmoud Mousa- Qalubia Mostafa Mahmoud Rizk Mostafa Mogahed Ghareeb-
Sharkia Mostafa Nour- Giza Mostafa Osama Abdulmegeed- Cairo Mostafa
Ramadan Mekkawy- Menofia
- 72. Mostafa Saeed
IsmaeelQalubia Mostafa Zakaria AlKordy- Menofia Naguib Abdulghany Abu
Raya- Menofia Nasser Sherif- Kafr ElSheikh Omar Al-Farouk SedkyDakahlia
Omar Gamal SaadQalubia Omar Hareedy- Port Saeed Omar Mohamed Zakaria- Port
Saeed Omar Refaat BarakatDamietta Omar Saber Alkaramany- Sharkia Osama
Alsayed HawasPort Saeed Osama Alserief
- 73. Osama
EldesokyAlexandria Osama Galal SakrMenofeia Osama Helal Amer Osama Yunis
BadawyCairo Ramadan Mohamed Atteia- Dakahleia Ramy Hussein
AbdulaalDakahleia Reda Moawad- Cairo Saad Fathy El-OrabyDamietta Sabry
Abdulfattah AlRasheedy- Qena Sabry AbulgheitDakahleia Saeed Al-Gazzar-
Cairo Saeed Tohamy MatarMenofeia
- 74. Salah Al-Hagary-
Tanta Sayed Mohamed Saad Sohail Mohamed AlSadek- Sharkeia Tarek Abdulaziz
EissaGharbeia Tarek Abdulnabi Salama- Dakahleia Tarek Fathallah AlSayyar-
Kafr El-sheikh Tarek Ibrahim- Cairo Wael Nasser Mohamad Fadloul Waleed
Qandil- Giza Yahia Zakaria HawasGiza Yasser Magdy Ahmed Sadek- Cairo
Yasser Magdy MoaazIsmaellia
- 75. * Conclusion:
The book has ended but sadness will never end; it is the sadness of a
stolen country. The pages have ended but they have not and will not be
turned over yet. We have not documented the aforementioned pages calling
for pride or fame out of sacrifices made by the best of Egypt›s people.
No, we swear by almighty Allah -though we have the right to be proud - we
have documented disastrous crimes the generations may forget if they are
not written. We have shortened the story of Truth and Falsehood in a few
lines that will not give those pure and worthy ones all or some of their
rights as much as they deserve. It is so hard for our hearts to make the
blood a narrated story and to make the dead people just numbers. This is
not true, but we all will be in their debt our whole life; For those who
had not been mentioned before those mentioned; For those who had been lost
and disappeared before those who were mourned in great funerals; For those
who had been put under bulldozers and in rubbish before those who died in
front of cameras; For those whose faces had been distorted and their
features had been disappeared before those smiled persons with bright
faces; For every martyr, every wounded, every missed person and every
detainee, who deserve to be an icon we have the honour to belong to it and
be belonged to us; We have documented this work only for the sake of Allah
then for history. For those of understanding and conscience would to think
and be reminded;
- 76. For the honest
and free people so as not to surrender for the striking power and tyrants;
And for the ignorant to know which curse will follow them in this world
and in the Hereafter; Unquestionably, this is the promise of Allah.
Unquestionably, this is the promise of Allah.