Killing in Cairo: the full story of the Republican Guards’ club shootings |
Patrick Kingsley in Cairo with video editing by Leah Green
18th of July
guardian.co.uk
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In the early hours of 8 July 2013, 51 Muslim Brotherhood supporters camped outside the Republican Guards’ club in Cairo were killed by security forces. The Egyptian military claimed the demonstrators had attempted to break into the building with the aid of armed motorcyclists.
After examining video evidence and interviewing eyewitnesses, medics and demonstrators Patrick Kingsley finds a different story – a coordinated assault on largely peaceful civilians. ’If they’d just wanted to break the sit-in, they could have done it in other ways. But they wanted to kill us,’ a survivor says