埃及警方向抗议者发出警告
时间：2013-08-16 06:46:49
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Egyptian police are threatening to use live weapons to protect themselves against anti-government protesters who say they will not give up their fight.
The Muslim
Brotherhood1, which demands the reinstatement of
ousted2 President Momahed Morsi, is defying the
interim3 government and calling for another big protest rally on Friday.
Egyptian authorities accuse the Brotherhood and Morsi supporters of terrorism and
sabotage4. The Brotherhood says the country is returning to military tyranny.
Egyptian police used guns, armored vehicles and bulldozers to break-up two large Cairo protest camps Wednesday. The official death
toll5 from that violence stands at 578, but the Brotherhood puts it in the thousands.
Journalists and witnesses report seeing makeshift morgues and
improvised6 hospitals with bloodstained floors loaded with dead bodies.
President Barack Obama has canceled next month's scheduled military exercises with Egypt, an event Egypt always eagerly anticipates.
Obama says traditional cooperation cannot continue when
civilians7 are being killed in the streets.
Defense8 Secretary Charles Hagel telephoned Egyptian Defense Minister Abdel al-Sisi, telling him the violence puts longtime cooperation with Egypt at risk.
Also Thursday, the U.S. State Department issued a travel warning for Egypt and urged American citizens to leave.
Egypt's interim interior minister, Mohamed Ibrahim, says police used minimum force against the camps and only fired tear gas. He blamed the Brotherhood for creating what he called a state of mayhem across the country by shooting at police, attacking government buildings and burning churches.
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