Pax Christi International Supports the Peaceful Protests in Egypt

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We honor the courage on display in Egypt

This week, the world witnessed events unfold in Egypt, with millions of people peacefully taking to the streets to demand the justice, basic freedom and human rights they have so long been denied.

Ordinary men and women are at long last seeking to assert their identity and retrieve their dignity after decades of corruption, deprivation and subjugation. People gathered to protest against social, cultural and economic injustice.

They demanded the immediate resignation of the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak.

The peaceful protests were countered on Wednesday 2 February 2011, by a significant number of regime loyalists, who engaged in organized attacks on peaceful protests.

Divide and rule is used as a classic concept of keeping power. The Egyptian army, which had not stopped the peaceful protests earlier, failed to intervene. Many were injured, including journalists; some died.

Despite these attacks, opponents of the status quo continued to demonstrate publicly and in large numbers for Mubarak’s immediate resignation.

Pax Christi International condemns violent attacks on peaceful protesters. The people have spoken clearly by their courageous and nonviolent presence on the streets of Cairo and other major Egyptian cities.

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