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...rumors that the government planned to lengthen their low-paying tour of duty, abandoned their barracks and took to the streets. For the next two days, mobs of civilian troublemakers and looters, including Muslim fundamentalists and leftist students, joined the rioting policemen. It was the most serious domestic unrest to confront Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak since he took office after Sadat's assassination in 1981. The official toll: at least 36 people killed and 321 injured...
...Cairo. Among those liberated were scores of Islamic fundamentalists and other political prisoners who have opposed the Mubarak government. Other rebellious police, joined by gangs of civilian rioters, marched through the streets of suburban Maadi, where many diplomats and other foreign nationals live, burning cars and looting shops. Unrest also flared in the cities of Asyut and Sohag, some 200 miles south of Cairo...
...said the emergency had done nothing to calm the 18-month state of unrest, and warned that "unless an attempt is made to get to the roots of the unrest, we will have an ongoing, endemic state of violence in this country...
...unrest in the traditionally quiet township began Saturday, Feb. 15, as thousands of mourners were returning from the funerals of two local blacks. It is uncertain how the disturbances began, but within moments blacks were hurling stones at police, who counterattacked with tear-gas canisters. The violence quickly escalated. By Monday the turbulence had spread to the outskirts of the township, where black youths peppered local factories with Molotov cocktails...
Because they were barred from the area, journalists had to rely on casualty figures released by South African officials and township leaders. At week's end, officials said that 23 people had died in the unrest, while Alexandra leaders cited 46 deaths. Although only sporadic disturbances continued, by Tuesday the police effort in Alexandra had gained all the trappings of a large-scale military operation. Security forces sealed off the township borders, army troops were stationed on every access road, and armed forces patrolled the township's streets. Overhead, police and army helicopters hovered protectively. At the approaches to neighboring...