Tens of Thousands rallied in Egypt against the country's ruling military council on Friday, two days after a flare-up of street violence left at least nine dead and fueled a wave of opposition to the generals ahead of presidential elections.Protesters plastered Cairo's Tahrir square with banners reading, "Down with Military Rule."
Banners hanging from the stages demanded an end to a constitutional amendment that forbid appeals against the disqualification of election candidates.
Meanwhile, Protesters and soldiers threw rocks at each other over a barbed wire barricade near the defense ministry in Cairo on Friday, with several protesters injured.
According to the news agencies, bleeding protesters were ferried away by motorbike by fellow demonstrators and ambulances rushed to the scene of the anti-military rally.This came after assailants fired at protestors camping near the Defense Ministry in Cairo's Abbasiya neighborhood early on Wednesday, starting clashes that killed 11 people and deepening suspicion that figures from the old regime are trying to derail progress towards democracy.
Demonstrators blamed the generals, who took control of the country after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak last year, of being behind the violence.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
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