Egypt is in the grip of a violent tyranny – with the west’s backing

Egypt is in the grip of a violent tyranny – with the west’s backing | Owen Jones | Comment is free | theguardian.com
The Human Rights Watch report is a frightening indictment of the regime that overthrew the Muslim Brotherhood president, Mohamed Morsi, last July. There were at least five separate incidents of “mass protestor killings” in the two months that followed – “many of Egypt’s public squares and streets were awash with blood.” As well as violating international human rights law, Human Rights Watch judged that these massacres “likely amounted to crimes against humanity” on the grounds of their “widespread and systematic nature”, as well as evidence suggesting these killings “were part of a policy to attack unarmed persons on political grounds”.