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A Revolution of the People
A letter to the military council from the Egyptian people behind the revolution:
Sorry, your credit has run out. Return to your residencies; we want a civilian presidential council. Your decisions are slow. Our demands were not achieved; it’s as if the people died. You accuse us of slowing down production. We have nothing to do with that since our popular demands are just. You demand that we reconcile with those who are still fighting the revolution and create discord among the people. They have not apologized for the courage they lack; slow and unserious about recovering money looted here and abroad. This makes us distrustful, because as of now we have not seen any real efforts to address these issues. The delay in achieving security shows the likelihood of cooperation between you and the police, which also makes us distrustful. Although you are capable of addressing these issues, you have not. Dissolve the local councils. Remove the conservatives along with all leaders loyal to the regime. Liberate the Egyptian media from all of directors loyal to the former regime and from all guardianship and guidance. So that it can give its true message to the people without leaving things out or glossing over facts and without the influence or threats of private channels. You interfered with amending the constitution and entrusted a committee with it. You set the date for the referendum, the method and ate for voting. All of this along with your constitutional announcements betrays your inexperience to even those who think the best of you. Moreover, this clearly resulted in dilemmas about spending wasted time and effort for useless arguments and disputes, representative of what Hosni Mubarak did with tirelessly. Do not criminalize demonstrations and sit-ins. Protect those participants from gangs. Fulfill our demands. We want the Attorney General – a lawyer for the people – to try all figures of corruption, starting with Mubarak, his sons, ‘Azmi, al-Sharif, Surus, Husayn Salim, and others in a public trial that’s both expedient and transparent. He should not stop until he tries the last issue of corruption and the last corrupt official who was allied with the regime. This is what you must do at the very least so that the people find you trustworthy. No one will be able to take away our revolution and we are ready to die for the cause. We want the dissolution of the National Party that continues to interfere with the destiny of the people.
God says: “When God helps you, then none can overcome you”. Long live Egypt and may the unjust perish.
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Acquired April 8, 2011
Translation by Andrea Okorley
Translation reviewed by Elias Saba
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