Protestors in Egypt !

Only in Egypt:

- will you find protestors who write their name and home phone numbers on their hands and shirt so if they are killed or injured someone would be able tell their family !

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- will you find honest protestors. When the cops throw teargas brave egyptians hurry to recover it and return it to its owner! We woud never take something that is not ours !

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- will you fine homemade teargas repellant made of " 5% yeast + 95% water" being sprayed on your face by strangers!

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- will you see people wearing snorkelling googles in downtown Cairo to protect our eyes from teargas !

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- will you hear people making jokes about their dangerous environment and being killed!

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- will you hear protestor's change their chants from being against the polic force to "we need the old teargas" when a new stronger batch was used to replace the expired ones being used in the first days of the revolution :) !

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- will pepsi and onions be a tactic used to defeat teargas !

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- will you find protestor's making cheese sandwhiches while teargas and rubber bullets fill the air!

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- will you think there is a celebration happening in the middle of the fight because protesters fight back using fireworks!

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- will you see one doctor in a field hospital treat about 100 injured protestors in one day !

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- will you see fearless protestors who are not afraid of teargas, rubber bullets, live bullets, or even getting detained and arrested, but rather they worry their parents will find out they are protesting!

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- will a young Egyptian tell his parents he is going to a class while his dad tells his family he is going to the work .. when in reality they are both going to protest and see each other in Tahrir Square( true story ! )

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- will injured cops be treated as equals and taken to a field hospital to get treatment, and then return to their side and start firing again!

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- will you see an injured protestor put on the back of a motorcycle and quickly taken to the nearest field hospital for treatment !

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- will the people pray while teargas, rubber bullets, and live ammunition is fired relentlessly around them !

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- will you find crowds moving towards cops shooting at them opposed to away!

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only at Tahrir square you can smell the freedom within the teargas, died bodies, injured people, the sound of ambulance and motorcycles peeps !

Glory to people who refused to bow to any dictator again

Glory to Egyptian people !

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Mahmoud Hafez

8th December 2011