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Cairo
square turns into tent city as protests continue
Sunday February 06, 2011 12:59:00 PM,
IANS
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Cairo: Protesters
braved rainy weather as they spent the night in downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square and kept up their unrelenting pressure on President Hosni Mubarak to quit now.
Though the protesters were upbeat after learning that the top
executive committee of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party,
including Mubarak's son Gamal Mubarak, have resigned, the
demonstrators were not ready to back-off till Mubarak steps down.
The nearly two-weeks of anti-Mubarak protests in Egypt entered its
13th day Sunday.
Tahrir Square continued to be the hub of the protests against
Mubarak, who has ruled Egypt continously ever since he was sworn
in in 1981 following the assassination of then president Anwar
Sadat at a military parade in Cairo.
The public square has virtually turned into a tent city, with
protesters refusing to leave it and spending the nights there.
Ahmed Abdel Moneim, a 22-year-old student who has been sleeping in
the square for days, said: "We have to be steady to topple the
government."
"The French Revolution took a very long time so the people could
eventually get their rights. ... If we have to spend our life to
get rid of Mubarak, we will."
An Al Jazeera correspondent described it as a "quiet day, though
there have been sporadic moments of excitement amongst the
protesters. At one moment the army was placed in between two
groups who were chanting rival slogans at each other".
"But it's relatively peaceful now, and they're hunkered in and
around what has become an enormous tent city."
As the protesters were unwavering in their demand to seek
Mubarak's ouster, the key opposition group - the Muslim
Brotherhood - agreed to a dialogue with Vice President Omar
Suleiman in a bid to end the country's political turmoil.
Suleiman will meet members of Muslim Brotherhood Sunday. The
topics will be centered on power transition and the future of the
country, reported Xinhua.
Protest organisers have now called for a "Day of the Martyred" to
be observed in honour of those who have died in the protests so
far.
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