EGYPT: PHOTO ESSAY_’ EGYPT ON VERGE OF REVOLUTION’

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Mohamed ElBaradei addresses the crowd at Tahrir … AP/PHOTO

Protests in Egypt against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak is entering its eighth day today.

Reports say thousands of protesters will again gather on Cairo’s Tahrir Square and across cities in the country.

The protesters are demanding that Mubarak step down after 30 years in power. They have called for a general strike and what they hope will be a “million-men” protest march on February 1.

Muhammad El-Baradei has called on  President Mubarak to step down from power, saying Egyptians are beginning a new era in their national life.

Mr El-Baradei, has said Washington is losing credibility by talking of democracy while still supporting a president viewed by millions of  Egyptian people as oppressive.

“This is common sense when you see a couple of million people in the street who are representative of 85 million Egyptian people who hate Mubarak, who want to see his back.

“The army is part of the people. And at the end of the day, after anyone takes off his uniform, he is part of the people with the same problems, the same repression, the same inability to have a decent life.

“So eventually, I don’t think they are going to shoot their people. And why should they shoot their people? To protect what?”

El-Baradei spoke to crowds on the evening of January 30 in Tahrir Square.

“I came today to join you on the happiest day in our lives. Today I can look each one of you in the eye. Today as Egyptians, you have taken back your rights to life and freedom. What has begun cannot go back. As we said earlier, we have one main demand: the end of the regime and the beginning of a new stage,”

El-Baradei said.

 

# Egyptians surround an army tank during protests in central Cairo. People gathered for a sixth day of anti-government protests in Cairo and other cities under heavier military surveillance. # Image Credit: EPA

 

 

# Protesters wear white shrouds to show their readiness to die for their cause in Cairo. The placards read: “This shroud is for the sake of Egypt”. # Image Credit: AP

 

 

# A helicopter flies over protesters in Tharir square in Cairo. # Image Credit: EPA

 

# Protesters have an army officer shouldered who joined in their protests in Cairo. # Image Credit: EPA

 

# Egyptian soldiers have alleged looters captured on the floor and tied them to a tank in a street of Cairo. Citizens in various areas, from Suez to Cairo, had formed neighbourhood defence groups overnight, in an effort to protect their families and property from looters following a further day of civil unrest and violent demonstrations. # Image Credit: EPA

 

In pictures: Egypt anti-government protests continue Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters pour into the streets * Gulf News * Published: 23:00 January 31, 2011 * Previous * Next * 28/59 * Egyptians carry an injured protester during clashes with anti-riot police in Cairo on Saturday. * Image Credit: AP

 

# Demonstrators celebrate atop an army tank in Tahrir square during protests in Cairo # Image Credit: Reuters

 

 

# A girl has her face painted the colours of the Egyptian flag as protesters gather at Dundas Square in Toronto to support the protests currently taking place in Egypt. # Image Credit: AP

 

# Egyptian runing past a police vehicle on fire during protest in Suez, some 100 km east of Cairo, Egypt # Image Credit: EPA

 

# Women demonstrate in front of the Mustafa Mahmoud mosque in Cairo. # Image Credit: AFP

 

# An army tank blocks traffic on the October 6th bridge over the river Nile. Protesters intensified their campaign as world leaders struggled to find a solution. # Image Credit: Reuters

 

# An Egyptian man lies on the ground as he reads the paper in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011. # Image Credit: AP

 

 

# Egyptian volunteers guard looted goods confiscated from looters at a street in Cairo. With the police having disappeared from the streets, residents reported gangs of youths, some on motorbikes, roaming the streets, looting supermarkets, shopping malls and stores. Some of the gangs made it to affluent residential areas in the suburbs, breaking into luxury homes and apartments. # Image Credit: AP

# Egyptians carry the body of a protester who was killed during clashes with anti-riot police in Cairo, on Saturday. # Image Credit: AP

Protesters flee from tear gas fire during clashes in Cairo January 28, 2011. Photo: Reuters/ Amr Abdallah Dalsh

 

CAIRO, EGYPT – JANUARY 28: Riot police force protestors back across the Kasr Al Nile Bridge as they attempt to get into Tahrir Square on January 28, 2011 in downtown Cairo, Egypt.

 

Thousands of protestors gather in Tahrir Square despite a curfew on January 28, 2011 . PHOTO Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

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