http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/02/hosni-mubarak-supporters-violence...
...."Square, for days the epicentre of the movement to remove the Egyptian president. Using clubs, bats, knives and even homemade spears, pro -Mubarak demonstrators charged the square at just before 2pm. They had been gathering for several hours 800 metres from the square on the Nile Corniche, outside the state television station. The violence was immediately condemned by David Cameron, who called it "deplorable", by the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon and by President Barak Obama, suggesting Mubarak's resistance may be in danger of badly backfiring. While many had anticipated a move to clear Tahrir Square by the security forces, the use of mob violence, orchestrated by the regime, had not been foreseen. Pitched battles turned the area into a war zone as anti-Mubarak protesters tried desperately to hold on to the square where hundreds of thousands of opponents of the regime gathered peacefully yesterday. Earlier today, a request by the army for those in the square to disper
se was
ignored. At one stage, tanks attempted to move between the two groups but did little to stop the escalating clashes. The pro -Mubarak protesters, numbering tens of thousands, at first said they had no intention of initiating a confrontation. Some of them admitted that they had been brought in by bus in from the countryside and some had swapped sides in recent days, saying Mubarak had given enough concessions and he should have time to usher through political change. "....
...."Square, for days the epicentre of the movement to remove the Egyptian president. Using clubs, bats, knives and even homemade spears, pro -Mubarak demonstrators charged the square at just before 2pm. They had been gathering for several hours 800 metres from the square on the Nile Corniche, outside the state television station. The violence was immediately condemned by David Cameron, who called it "deplorable", by the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon and by President Barak Obama, suggesting Mubarak's resistance may be in danger of badly backfiring. While many had anticipated a move to clear Tahrir Square by the security forces, the use of mob violence, orchestrated by the regime, had not been foreseen. Pitched battles turned the area into a war zone as anti-Mubarak protesters tried desperately to hold on to the square where hundreds of thousands of opponents of the regime gathered peacefully yesterday. Earlier today, a request by the army for those in the square to disper
se was
ignored. At one stage, tanks attempted to move between the two groups but did little to stop the escalating clashes. The pro -Mubarak protesters, numbering tens of thousands, at first said they had no intention of initiating a confrontation. Some of them admitted that they had been brought in by bus in from the countryside and some had swapped sides in recent days, saying Mubarak had given enough concessions and he should have time to usher through political change. "....
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