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AT LEAST 36 KILLED IN CLASHES BETWEEN COPTS AND EGYPTIAN SECURITY FORCES
PanARMENIAN.Net
October 10, 2011 - 21:14 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - At least 36 people were killed and 272 injured
in clashes between Coptic Christians and Egyptian security forces on
Sunday, October 9 near the state television building, known as Maspero,
in Cairo, Egypt's health ministry said.
Egypt's army rulers, meanwhile, imposed a curfew on Cairo's Tahrir
Square and downtown area, the state media announced. Tahrir Square
was the epicenter of the February uprising that overthrew former
President Hosni Mubarak.
The clashes were prompted by an attack on a Coptic Christian church
in Merinab village in Aswan on Sept. 30 by Muslims who said the church
did not have the proper license to build a dome.
Sectarian clashes are frequent in Egypt where Copts, who make up 10
percent of the 80-million-strong population, have been the target
of attacks and have repeatedly accused the authorities of systematic
discrimination, Al Arabia News reported.
PanARMENIAN.Net
October 10, 2011 - 21:14 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - At least 36 people were killed and 272 injured
in clashes between Coptic Christians and Egyptian security forces on
Sunday, October 9 near the state television building, known as Maspero,
in Cairo, Egypt's health ministry said.
Egypt's army rulers, meanwhile, imposed a curfew on Cairo's Tahrir
Square and downtown area, the state media announced. Tahrir Square
was the epicenter of the February uprising that overthrew former
President Hosni Mubarak.
The clashes were prompted by an attack on a Coptic Christian church
in Merinab village in Aswan on Sept. 30 by Muslims who said the church
did not have the proper license to build a dome.
Sectarian clashes are frequent in Egypt where Copts, who make up 10
percent of the 80-million-strong population, have been the target
of attacks and have repeatedly accused the authorities of systematic
discrimination, Al Arabia News reported.