Egypt celebrates "military victory" with violent repression of Islamist protests

The Egypt back to the arm wrestling between the army and Islamist movements, during the celebrations of the anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

More than 50 dead and hundreds of wounded is still provisional balance of clashes after police and the military have returned to carry on the demonstrations from the supporters of the deposed President, Mohamed Morsi.

The most violent incidents recorded in Cairo, where the authorities dispersed the March Islamists, in the light of the State of emergency restarted in August.

At the base of the protests, the persecution of the new Government, dominated by the military, the Muslim Brotherhood, after the movement was banned, and more than 2,000 of its militants killed or detained in recent months.

Only authorised demonstration in the capital, thousands of supporters of the army, in Tahrir square, to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the officially "victory" of the Egyptian military in the Yom Kippur war in 1973.

A celebration dominated by the image of the current Deputy Prime Minister, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, the new strong man of the country, after the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi.

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