Sometimes back, to be precise on July 3, 2013 when the first elected president of Egypt was dethroned by the military, leading to a violent chaotic situation, in a blog here, it was forecast that the unfortunate country was heading for a prolonged period of internal disturbances. More than a month after the arrest of Mohammed Morsi and take over of power by the army, the situation is getting worse every day. Thus the disturbances after the Arab Spring, which started in 2011, resulting in the dethronement of president Hosni Mubarak, go on unabated, claiming huge loss of life and property.
On Aug 16, I saw a photograph of a heart rending scene. In the army action to curb the followers of the Muslim Brotherhood, the world famous religious centre, Rabaah al-Adiwiya mosque was ransacked and burnt. Both sides are Muslims and so they cannot hurl the blame on any other religious community. On Aug 14 itself, as many as 525 people were killed. The Muslim Brotherhood appears leading an insurgency, which the army finds difficult to tame. The incarcement of Morsi has been further prolonged. The Egyptian army, which was originally propped up by the West, appears losing its foothold within and without. Short of the public support, no dictatorship can stay longer.
It is a foregone conclusion that once again, democracy alone will emerge as an acceptable way out. But when? Can the world be a mute spectator till that ideal solution surfaces. By then, the country would suffer immense losses in life and property. Barack Obama appears to have realized the impending catastrophe and turned cold feet. Let the world not allow the innocent people getting butchered by the army bullets.
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