The Massacre of Rabaa

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Narration & Documentation
Prepared by:
Yaser Selim Nour Saad
Amany AboZaid Menna Al-Hadary
Asmaa Shehata
Designed by:
Marwa Ads
Rawand Abdull
Translated by:
Gehad Gaber
Sara Eldesoky
Mohamed Kamal
Reviwed by:
Dr. Gehan Deeb
Mohamed Reda Selim
Dedicated
To the nymphs of the earth and the Knights of the heaven,
To the soil irrigated with blood,
To the eyes and the shreds leading up to Eden,
To the veins riddled with shrapnels,
To the prison walls captivating the purest in the homelands,
To the hearts grasping hot coals despite tribulations
The first flow of blood .. a paper
A poor printng and bad drafing paper spread throughout Egypt in the hands of
youth who knew nothing about it except its contents. They went to the markets and
public places asking for signatures. That shedding blood sheet was called Rebel;
signatures were provided in ignorance covered in the name of rebellion.
The Egyptan media fed this practce. The June 30 was like the Festval Day of the
Pharaohs magicians. Their goals were scatered, as their hearts were: some of them
called for earlier presidental electons, others called for the unseatng of the Islamic
President, and others did not know what they wanted, or rather what was wanted to
them. Meaningless alliances, fronts and coalitons arouse preparing for the witnessed
day. The Islamists and many patriots realized the plot being hatched against the
country and dignity. They decided to gather and demonstrate in Rabia Al-Adaweya
Square.
The June 30 came with a plot that was unfolded on July 3. It was that day when the
Egyptan army cooperated with the Egyptan media that played a misleading role - as
usual - in marginalizing those protestors who were in Rabia from the scene. On the
other hand, they videoed the demonstrators against Pres. Mohamed Morsi at Al-
Tahrir Square and Al-Ithadeya using the military helicopters whose shots exaggerated
their actual numbers.
Crowds scrambled to Rabia Square afer President Morsi had been deposed and
kidnapped to emphasize their stand supportng legitmacy and right and rejectng any
negotatons with the military coup and its government. The game of transmitng
rumors and false news began to defame the sit-in fgures with the intent of dispersing
the people around them. On the other hand, many of the leaders of the Muslim
Brotherhood and other Islamist partes have been detained. As a result, there was a
strong reacton represented in the stability of the protesters and the increase of their
numbers; so that the sit-in sites expanded to include Rabia Adaweya Square, Al-
Nahda and Al-HarasAl-Gomhori. New sit-in sites emerged, such as Mustafa Mahmoud
Square and Al-Alf Maskan Square, as well as the main squares in the governorates.
This stability scared the coup forces, so they decided to try the frst stage of the
counter-violence against the peaceful protestors .
Al-Haras Al-Gomhori Massacre: A Massacre of Worshippers
(Dawn of July 8, 2013)
Security forces opened fre on protesters during the dawn prayer tll the early hours
of the morning. Women and children were besieged in Al-Mustafa Mosque and were
showered with gas bombs. This resulted in more than 111 martyrs, 1000 wounded
and huge numbers of detainees.
Having unveiled the face of brutal bloody coup, disseminatng lies began. It was
alleged that the demonstrators did initate to open fre on the Republican Guard
forces. There were other falsehoods which are destroyed by the true testmonies of
the eyewitnesses and videos of the massacre. In fact, all the dead and wounded were
protesters, and none of the ofcers or soldiers were injured except for an ofcer. It
was said that he refused to murder people, so he was shot immediately by his leader.
Al-Menassa Massacre
(July, 27, 2013)
The demonstrators withdrew from Al-Haras Al-Gomhori site to join those who were
at Rabia Square. Throughout the period of the sit-in, their numbers increased that
the sit-in expanded in Al-Nasr Road from Tiba Mall directon to reach a place called
Al-Menassa (The Platorm / The Monument).
As the armies of occupaton do, the Pro-Morsi demonstrators were surprised by the
* Rabia Square was selected for two reasons: not to engage in side-clashes with the protestors of Al-Tahrir
Square and Al-Ithadeya Palace, and because Islamists gathered there before.
snipers bullets from all sides, especially afer the soldiers came to Al-Azhar University
buildings and showered them with live bullets with no humanity.
The place was flled with pure blood and sheds; the martyrs were more than 136
and 4500 wounded. Arrests of the fgures of the Islamic movement were made. They
were prominently accused of incitng to kill demonstrators.
The demonstrators restored power quickly afer the massacre. They assured they
would contnue tll the return of the legitmate president Mohamed Morsi to his
legal positon. They received threats that the army would put an end, very soon,
to their sit-in by dispersion. Helicopters contnued throwing threatening papers on
them in Rabia and Al-Nahda. The coup media did not stop misleading the society;
they pictured the demonstrators at Rabia signal as a handful of armed traitors to
the homeland aiming to destroy the State insttutes. Ramadan (an Islamic month)
fnished, and Eid al-Fitr passed; however, the demonstrators over tme were flled
with faith and confrmaton, and so contnued their sit-in. They tried to secure their
square - as much as possible - with sand borders and light stones. They guarded the
square gates turn by turn expectng a near atack.
In the early morning hours of August 14, 2013, a disaster struck. The army and
the police killed more than 2000 martyrs. The names of 825 are mentoned here
at the end of this document. There were, according to the narratons, more than
10,000 wounded, missing and detained. It was the most horrendous massacre in the
Egyptan modern history.
From the frst moments of the army convoys breaking into the square, we begin our
documentaton and listening to eye-witnesses on this heinous crime; a crime that will
remain a black stain on the pages of the coupists and their supporters either from
thugs or delegators.
But frst we ask Allah for righteousness and stability.
* Steadfastness in the Dispersion Massacre:
Rabia Square was crowded with thousands of people sitng-in: youth, elderly,
men, women, and children. Daylight was accompanied by inhuman men, or beasts,
whose only job was to snipe and kill.
In such a scene, people only think of escaping from death and bullets. No one
expects that the weaponless sits in, who have nothing but their faith, could face the
nowadays Mongols.
Notwithstanding, to be truthful with God is beyond any expectaton and exceeds
the limits of human imaginaton; this was their lethal weapon. It was this sincerity
to what they say or do that made them heroes for generatons to come, even afer
a long period. Their faith was heart-rooted to bring them closer to the Prophet
Mohammads kith and martyrs. Testmonies are documented to be words of glory
and dignity.
A night at Rabia Squares Sit-in
* The first moments:
The atack on Rabia Al-Adawiya Square began at six oclock in the morning from
a place called Tiba Mall on Wednesday, August 14, 2013.
Dr. Mohammad Esam Mansoor:
We slept an hour and half afer dawn tll 6:00 a.m. We woke up when everybody was
shoutng: Emergency! Emergency! Everyone went to his spot preparing the frst
aids.
Niveen Khalil:
I prayed the dawn prayer by the Platorm. At 6:00 a.m., Dr. Beltagy asked everyone in
tents to go there.
Camera: Niveen Khalil
Doaa Eweida:
At 6:00 a.m., I woke up upon hearing one of us asking everybody in tents to get out,
since the shootng started by Tiba Mall. I woke my sister up quietly to go together to
the Platorm where we found Dr. Salah and Dr. Safwat also calling people to get out
of their tents
Camera: Sohaib Shabana
Camera: Othman Ads.
Hamdi Ahmed Khalil:
The incidents began at 6 o'clock a.m. I was there. The atack started from a place
called Tiba Mall overlooking Nasr Road and from all the main and sub-streets.
Clouds of tear gas covered the place. Snipers were on the around buildings; and
helicopters were hovering above our heads as if we're in a batlefeld.
Abdullah ELSharkawy:
I woke up at nearly 6:30 a.m. to hear the news that the killers had begun their atack
from Tiba Mall directon. We began to move our martyrs and wounded. A helicopter
was fying at a low height. Strong tear gas bombs fell heavily, penetratng the eyes,
the respiratory system, and the nervous system.
Camera: Othman Ads
Amr Albeheery:
I was in the mosque when I heard a sudden sound outside. I got out and found atack
and retreat, gas bombs, and the police with seven armored vehicles.
Rokaya Mohammad Alkhodary:
Dr. Beltagy told us that the armored vehicles of the police and army are on their way
to the square. So, everybody kept shoutng Stand and protect your square!
At 6:55 o'clock a.m, we saw a black thick smoke coming from Tiba Mall side. We
heard sounds of fring shots onto all the square sectors.
Aalaa Abdarraheem:
I woke up terrifed on hearing the sound of the shootng so close to us at Tiba Mall
street. It was the frst atack on this area. It always happened at the Monument
Street and Atayaran Street. The shootng was contnuous and loud. There were
diferent sounds of various weapons. Nearly every minute, a specifc sound, louder
and clearer than the others, was heard out of a bullet shot. Later on, I knew that it
was the snipers
The frst two martyrs in the Dispersion Massacre
- Camera: Bahaa Arrazy
Camera: Othman Ads
Mahmood Alameer:
When we frst heard the shootng sound, there were neither microphones to warn
nor fre engines to disperse us with water inside the square. As for the outside, the
inhabitants said that microphones and fre engines were used, but this is not certain
because, unfortunately, no one of those who were outside is stll alive.
Esmaeel Arafa:
I woke up almost at 6:30 a.m. to hear the demonstrators' calling Allah is Great
along with the sound of shootng. I ran out of the tent to check the situaton.
Everybody was ready and the frst gas bomb came from Tiba Malls directon. I ran
back to the tent to put the mask and wear my shoes. We thought the shootng
was coming from one directon, but we saw smoke emitng from the directon of
Kentucky Restaurant at Atayaran Street. We knew they became insane and began the
dispersion. The worst we imagined was that they would disperse us in three streets
and leave the fourth for us to escape. However, afer ffeen minutes, we realized that
we had been under atack from all ways in and Al-Sisy started a complete genocide.
Camera: Mosaab Ashamy
Doaa Emad:
I woke up at 6:30 a.m. and everyone was yelling: Wake up! The army is getng ready
to shoot. I got up scared and ran out of the tent.
Dr. Omama Al-Husseiny:
It was 6:30 a.m. when one of my sisters entered the tent I was sleeping in. She woke
me up saying: Omama! Wake up; the tanks are heading to the square, coming from
Tiba Malls directon.
Ahmad Alkooly:
The break-in began with direct strikes using live bullets that I myself saw a wounded
man whose hand was torn to pieces by bullets. They did not stop our sit-in with water
or gradual steps as they claimed. Otherwise, the frst step they meant was fring the
live bullets; what followed was even worse.
* The break-in weapons:
Dr. Mohammad Esam Mansour:
An apache helicopter fied over us and killed anyone holding a camera or videoing
with a mobile. It was the frst tme for me to see an apache fring and killing
doctors, engineers, women and children! I knew it killed all cameramen. There were
spies among us communicatng with this helicopter to kill some of the platorm
characters: a poet, a folk singer or a cheerer.
Naglaa Salih:
I saw helicopters throwing tear gas bombs and shootng youth.
Ahmad Al-Kholy:
The police weapons varied between heavy machine guns, gas and sonic bombs, or
cartridges. Snipers were everywhere. There was also a helicopter that was hovering
at a low alttude.
Esmaiel Arafa:
Bullets of all kinds: grenof, machine guns, pistols and cartridges. There were snipers
on the buildings and helicopters.
Camera: Mosaab Ashamy
Emad Eddin Al-Sayed:
There were many huntng lines. A sniper took a line crossing the square. Anyone
crossed the line would be murdered at once so that people could not gather and
be in scatered groups. A sniper's task was to cut the aids' lines. We saw many
murdered before us on those lines. I was able to video with Mohammad Maher
on a front line behind Rabi'a mosque. Unfortunately, I was caught and hit, and my
camera was confscated.
* Victims of the break-in:
Dr. Mohammad Esam Mansour:
There were too many wounded people, tens of corpses, a burst head, a cut leg with
an unknown shot, or a person with half face. The bullets we know were rare. Those
people were shot with something strange. What kind of a bullet that separates half
of a head, cuts a thigh, or penetrates the belly or chest leaving 10 cm hole? I tried
to help people preventng their bleeding, providing medical solutons, and making
splints. While we were helping them, we could not feel our bodies as they were
numb. No one ever imagined such a dawn. In an hour and a half, there were about
300 wounded and dead.
Fatima Khalid:
I saw a martyr whose intestnes were put over his body in a plastc botle.
Ismael Arafa:
I saw someone with a bullet in his head. He could be cured; however, there was no
place. I saw a woman carrying her dead baby and did not know what to do. I saw a
martyr with a half skull. I saw fngers and legs cut, and eyes out of their heads.
Dr. Omama Al-Husseini:
I saw strange injuries. Other than the normal cartridge, there was another kind of
cartridges that exploded inside the body. Bullets like gears with pointed edges were
pulled out of bodies. There were body-penetratng bullets, cartridge bullets shot in
the eye and head, and gas bombs exploding over peoples heads causing immediate
death. I saw heads separated from their bodies and saw cut hands and arms. We
relieved whoever we could and referred the critcal cases to Rabi'a Medical Center.
Camera: Sara Alaa
Dr. Fatma Bayyad:
All the dead were as if killed by a canon; heads were burst and wounds reached
20cm.
Camera: Othman Ads
Dr. Lamya Mayar:
I have litle experience in forensic medicine, war wounds and surgery. But awkward
questons raised here:
Which shot having power to destroy the thoracic cage and cause a 10 x5 cm diameter
hole?!
Which shot having power to fragment the arm and turn it into a big paste?!
Which shot having power to fragment the head as if it was run over by a car?!
Which shot having power to cut fesh and bones into pieces and cut the face into
two?!
Which INNOCENT shot having power to fragment the jaw to make a mass of fesh,
bone, skin and blood?!
Camera: Sara Alaa
Dr. Ahmad Fahmy:
The frst wounded got in the hospital dying; he was shot in the chest. The second
was shot in the head and part of his brain was out. The third's whole brain was in the
hands of someone carrying the body.
Mohammad Khalid Al-Dib:
A man over 60 was carried into Rabi'a martyrs morgue, Media Center previously. I
was shocked and yelled at people not to look at him, but this atracted them to look
and ask for a physician. I went to check him, but found his skull was crashed and his
brain was out. What is horrible is that despite this, he was stll alive. I kneeled and
didn't know what a book of medicine might state how to treat such a case. The man
was utering something, but all I could do is to put his skull together and put his brain
back, then I lef. Everybody, among them was his son, yelled at me: Do something!
Tell us what to do! I explained the case to them that any atempt to save his life
would torture him and we should let him rest in peace. I lef him. My heart was flled
with uter helplessness, a feeling that overwhelmed the place. Even senior and clever
physicians did not know what to do with such a case. For half an hour, the man was
dying. I passed by every ten minutes; his soul was coming out more and more, taking
my own soul in weakness and pain.
How the coupists want us to go on our lives as normal and sane in a society that
hailed what happened to us? Only one word can describe how I felt: impotence. Allah
will sufce us against those who killed us and those who were content with it.
* Scenes from Rabia Al-Adaweya Square:
Sagida Abd El-Naser Haggag:
I saw a Mongolian child sitng calmly beside his old grandmother who takes care of
him. He was crying silently and innocently in fear and panic. I also saw a mother of
three children; the third is an infant whom she escaped with in order to hide him,
and lef the other two in crowd with a women. Food and water were distributed
and given to us while we were besieged from all directons by the Army, Police and
aircrafs.
I saw someone who carried my sister afer she fell on the foor due to toxic gas
asphyxiaton; she was screaming out of severe pain. Someone else suddenly helped
us and carried her on his shoulders.
I saw the Heaven between my eyes and felt that it really deserves sufering and
sacrifce.
I saw someone entrusted himself and decided to put his head on the foor sleeping
untl a bullet would target him from any directon.
I saw our tent and others' burning and falling to ashes. I notced a sheikh who was
carried on his son's shoulders. Daaaaaaad! screamed the son whose father fell
down near me and the insides of his head were all coming out.
Fatima Khalid:
I saw a woman who sat with her two children crying beside a martyr. I want you to
be like these martyrs in order to go to Heaven, she said to her children.
Naglaa Salih:
I saw someone whose brain was coming out of his head to be caught by some youth
and be buried with him.
Moreover, I saw children who died out of gas asphyxiaton.
*Alshahada in Islam is an Islamic creed which declares belief in the oneness of God and acceptance of
Muhammad as Gods prophet. The declaraton in its shortest form reads: There is no god but Allah and
Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.
I saw a young man as soon as I moved beside, a bullet shot him in the neck raising his
index fnger and saying, There is no God but Allah. Then, he died as a martyr with
a smile on his face.
I saw a person who was severely injured by a cartridge; however, he bandaged his
injury so fast and went back to the confrontaton, standing in front of a huge army
with a stone in his hand.
I remember a fastng woman who refused to have Ifar (breaking ones fast) as she
loves to meet Allah in the Heaven while fastng.
Ramy Foad Hafez:
There was a woman weeping as her son was bleeding heavily. There was a child
who was trying to awake his dead father. A fountain of blood was pouring from the
injured and drowning the coat of the doctor who was trying to prevent bleeding. A
nurse fell on the foor and said while weeping Why is that? Why is that? A man
was crying while carrying his brother with part of his brain visible out of the broken
skull. Anonymous corpse was thrown there. There was also a man whose heart has
stopped and at least 15 doctors rallied around him trying to revive him. Another man
was carrying a corpse while insultng and crying.
I saw a doctor who lost his nerve and began yelling here and there. I saw a young
excellent doctor who was trying to sttch an injured, but his hand was shivering, so
the needle fell 10 tmes at least.
A slightly injured man was shocked by the horror of what he saw. He prayed for us,
lef the recepton room, pressed his injury with gauze, and said Thanks be to Allah
that I'm alive and able to breathe. A worker was pushing with a venous device in
his hand, but his foot slipped in a pool of blood. Another old man slipped in it when
he was pulling my shirt; he cried and said, I know that you are so busy, but my son
is almost dead and I want to be sure of his death by any doctor before burying him.
Maybe he's stll alive; so I wouldn't be unjust to him. I went to check his son and
found that half of his head was not there. I looked into the grieved father's eyes.
Speechless! He then understood and said to me, Thanks son. He carried his dead
son and lef!
Hager Khalid:
I saw bulldozers running over the martyrs and their belongings with no sanctty or
shame. Moreover, I saw police and army ofcers sharing the propertes of the dead,
what is lef or ft for use.
Ahmed Alkholy:
Unforgetable women:
I remember a woman wearing two gowns, breaking bricks and putng the pieces
in her outer gown transferring them to the front lines for defence. Another woman
did not stop motvatng men and reminding them of Du'a (prayer). She was moving
among us infectng us with a strange positve energy. I am not exaggeratng if I say
that the woman kept doing so for not less than seven hours.
Camera: Mosaab Al Shamy
Camera: Othman Adss
Unforgetable Men:
A supermarket owner closed his shop but lef all the fridges of Pepsi and juice
available. Demonstrators took the goods and put the money in the fridge drawer.
No one ever stole or took something for free, but rather sometmes they put more
money when they did not fnd change. I remember a man, all along the month of
Ramadan*, telling the people when Dawn was about to come, Have your Suhoor*
frst, then give me money. If I hadn't witnessed those scenes myself, I would have
said that they are mere stories and tales.
* Ramadan is the ninth month of the year in the Islamic calendar on which Muslims fast from dawn untl
sunset. Muslims all over the world abstain from food, drink, and other physical needs during the daylight
hours. As a tme to purify the soul, refocus atenton on God, and practse self-sacrifce, Ramadan is much
more than just not eatng and drinking.
* Suhoor is an Islamic term referring to the meal before the dawn during the Islamic month of Ramadan.
* The Field Hospital:
Nahla El-Haddad:
On that day of dispersing Rabi'a sit-in, clinics were stormed and evacuated by the
police. We were forced to exit from the back street. We kept stand waitng for what
would happen while some people were carrying their dead and wounded sons on
their hands and searching for transport. At that tme, I saw a fre coming up from the
clinic building and I ran towards the building untl an ofcer, who was blocking the
street, stopped me. I yelled and asked him:Did you set fre on the foor from which
this fame is coming?!!. He said: Yes.
I said: But there are injured persons at a room inside. I took photos of them myself.
He said: No. We made sure that they all were dead.
I said: No. I am sure there were injured people.. He said: OK! We did not see
them!
Later on, I made sure that some injured died afer fghtng fre; their corpses and arms
were crooked or extended beside the martyrs' charred corpses in a sleeping state.
Camera: Nahla Al Hadad
Doaa Oweida:
When I reached the feld hospital gate, I was astounded and dismayed by what I
witnessed. The street which was full of vibrant tents changed; ashes and bullets
everywhere; a mixture of heavy blood and ashes covered the ground. The state of
the ground nauseated me; ashes mingled with water in atempts to extnguish the
Camera: Sara Alaa
Naglaa Salih:
The feld hospital was completely flled with corpses; what you have seen in the
videos is nothing! Corpses were on the four foors. We began to treat the injured at
the Media Center and Rabi'a Al-Adaweya Masjid as the feld hospital was full. The
hospital began shrouding the bodies of martyrs without washing and wrote down
their names as seen in order to facilitate recognizing them by their families.
Camera: Othman Ads
fre. This all was covered with heavy blood while the dead and injured ones were
crammed into the hospital to the extent that the by-stander was afraid of disturbing
their contnuous passing.
Mahmoud Al-Amir:
I entered Rabi'a Medical Center to search for the corpse of a close friend, but I found
that most of the storeys were flled with martyrs lined beside each other. Later on, I
knew that at the end of dispersing Rabi'a sit-in, all foors were full of martyrs.
The center was showered with bullets piercing the walls. A young woman called
Asmaa Sakr was standing while a bullet penetrated the wall and killed her in the
head. A relatve of mine narrated that he was standing in a room of the foor where
the bullet penetrated the
wall and many others before it.

Ahmed Elkholy:
Afer 45 minutes of dispersing the square, a doctor at the main feld hospital located
on AlNasr road between the trafc and Rabi'a Al-Adawiya Masjid told me that about
40 persons roughly lost their lives; i.e., every minute a person died, mostly by live
ammunitons. I myself saw such strange kind of ammuniton which cut the fesh of
the injured. Unbelievable! I will not talk about the number of children and infants
whom I found sufering from severe gas asphyxiaton. I was discharged from the
hospital to leave a place for any of the injured in need. .
Camera: Sara Alaa
Dr. Ahmed Elsroi:
Aircrafs monitored the protecton of some demonstrators at the feld hospital,
which was consequently shot many tmes. We all lied down due to the heavy tear gas
bombs and bullets. Eventually, the forces stormed the hospital and fred tear gas fve
meters distance at the hospital which was crowded with the wounded. All doctors,
pharmacists and volunteers, including students at the Faculty of Medicine, and all
sufocated patents were arrested. No one knows the fate of the wounded by live
bullets, including four serious cases. Then, the hospital was entrely burned, including
the drugs, devices and supplies. I don't know if there were wounded persons lef
inside or not!
Abdullah Mustafa:
I photograhed the dead and wounded in the feld hospital untl a central security
armored vehicle entered the hospital and threw a gas bomb. Then, it fred mult-
live bullets even though the hospital contained only the corpses, wounded, doctors,
journalists or those who assisted at transferring the corpses and injured. When the
hospital was shot, its glass was broken and six people were killed, including a person
who was beside me and was shot in the head, and many were wounded.
Shootng lasted for 7 to 10 minutes. Meanwhile, all people lied on the ground, and
the wall bricks were fying and hitng our heads. They kept fring tear gas. Afer
shootng stopped, I searched for Omar, but I didn't fnd him. I called his name, but
there was no answer. I went downstairs to escape the gas and then went upstairs
from another way. When I looked at the other door from the other way of the
hospital, I observed that they set fre on it, and the people advised us not to exit from
this way because it was not safe anymore. At that moment, the soldiers came in and
threatened to kill anyone they would see.

Dr. Ahmed Fahmy:
We heard that the policemen were evacuatng the hospital. Consequently, I went
upstairs to ask for the administratve hospital team who was approximately on
the ffh foor. The smell of tear gas was fatal. Does criminality reach that extent
of shootng a hospital with live bullets and tear gas? I went downstairs with some
doctors in atempt to vacate it from the dead and wounded. It was disastrous not to
fnd someone who could carry the wounded. We had to leave many of the wounded
people in their last throes dying as we could not carry them. The soldiers shot some
of them dead while we were watching and could do nothing.
Camera: Sara Alaa
Dr. Omama Al-Husseiny:
Rabi'a Mosque and the meetng hall No. 2 were turned into two feld hospitals that
began to receive the dead and wounded people. The space was not enough for the
massive number of the dead and wounded. Those whose wounds could be healed
even temporarily were transferred to the demonstrators' tents in front of Rabi'a Al-
Adaweya Masjid and Medical Center. Nevertheless, the Masjid as well as the hall was
congested with bodies of martyrs and the wounded that were thrown on the foor,
heavily bleeding from every part of their bodies.
The corpses of martyrs were moved to another hall inside the Masjid and tents free
spaces in the hospital for the injured. Before Al-Zuhr prayer (A Muslims' prayer afer
midday), the new wounded were transferred to Rabi'a Al-Adaweya Medical Center
since the feld hospitals could not receive new cases anymore.
I entered the hospital to fnd it on fre. I looked for my relatves who were sitng
there, but none was there. The place was uterly burning. There remains some of the
wounded people not moved from the hospital yet. I went out from the hospital
Rokaya Mohamed Elkhodary
We entered the center, but it was completely full of dead and wounded people. Blood
was everywhere, and so was the congeston of those alive! We went upstairs, but we
found all the foors even more crowded! On the second foor, we saw the martyrs set
beside one another and their faces were like a shining moon.
door (the meetng hall no.2) and found my friends going out from the Masjid door as
well.
At Rabia Center, the doctors were forced to leave the place and the wounded even if
they were at the process of doing an operaton.

Dr. Fatma Bayad:
Suddenly, the burst sound became closer. The hospital and the hall were targeted by
helicopters that launched tear gas bombs. Our emergency plan was to get rid of our
medical ID and to get on civil wear instead of the operaton scrub of doctors.
We were informed that we could transfer the injured to Rabi'a Medical Center.
However, as soon as we began to transfer them, we heard the sound of bursts along
with tear gas bombs thrown at anyone who just came close to the front door of the
medical center. We had to use the tail-door while we were bowing our heads in order
not to be shot with a bullet. The volunteer doctors from the feld hospital entered
and got ready; the center had been informed of the possibility of dispersing the sit-in,
so there was only one doctor and one male nurse.
Once the people knew that we had moved Rabi'a Medical Center, the wounded
automatcally were referred to us. Most of injuries were fatal as usual; however,
the existence of an operaton room gave a glimpse of hope to those who were in
bad need of a surgery. The mater got worse as we put two operaton beds inside
one room. When I went upstairs, I found a wounded person on a bed and at least
three others on the foor of the same room waitng for their turn of surgery. Of
course, the numbers of surgeons were not enough, nor were the room capacity and
potentalites.
I lef the operaton room to fnd a corridor before the operaton rooms crowded
with the lined wounded whose wounds varied from light to middle and severe, but
according to the medical and surgical standards, they could be healed.
Unexpectedly, the hospital walls were badly shaken by a bomb burst I didn't know
its kind. Tear gas bombs were being thrown inside the hospital entrance. We were
certain of the fatality. I looked out from the back window, but all I found were the
wounded and their relatves. I told them about the hospital atack and that they
would be arrested. Then, I went back to the hospital yard and saw a Special Forces
ofcer dressed in black and was holding a weapon demanding not to ask him about
the type of the gun, whether automatc or not, in order not to disclose his ignorance
of weapons. Aferwards, he shouted at us to go out immediately. We said aloud: We
are doctors and those are wounded, so we cant leave them behind. He sternly said:
Either you leave or stay with them. One of the wounded had fractons due to live
bullets, so a doctor wanted to take him, but the ofcer threatened him to break his
legs or force him to stay with him if he did so.
The situaton was hard and depressing! I waited to see what would happen. I saw
that ofcer forcing the medical staf to go out from the front door of the center
overlooking the Anwar Elmofi Street. I evaded them and went back again to the
hospital garden from the rear door of the center to be with the injured who were in
the garden to the last second. There was a very horrible scene; everything was being
burned, the Masjid, the feld hospital and the media center!!!
Dr. Lamia' Mayer:
At 09:00 a.m., a march came while I was hiding. I went with them to El-Tayaran Street
then to the Masjid and the feld hospital again, but I was amazed by what I saw; I lef
the hospital only for one hour, but when I returned to the external corridor where I
was working, I found it topsy-turvy. The beds were upturned, plaster and cast sacks
and the contents of lockers were thrown on the foor and so were the plants and
everything. I asked people about what happened, but no one knew anything, and
those who knew were dead or escaped. Some people told me that the soldiers threw
a bomb on the corridor; others said that it was a tear gas bomb thrown at the heart
of the corridor. Untl now I don't know what happened! I entered the hall no. 1.
Dozens of the wounded and the dead were stll there, but the aids were hardly there.
My colleagues were struggling; I helped them as I could, for I was semi-comatose
moving as a machine.
Later on, a new order was issued to move all the injured, wounded and medicines
to Rabi'a Medical Center behind the Masjid to vacate the feld hospital. All that was
done and I was broken-down on the ground.
I found the hall No. 2 full of dead; and the hall No.3 full of the dead and wounded.
I lef the beloved feld hospital that became empty except for some women who
overslept due to exhauston, two doctors and some workers. I took some supplies
from the pharmacy and went to Rabi'a center, but I was astonished; fve foors of the
dead and the wounded. Nonstop whistles were calling to make a space, and bullets
were showered heavily.
I was besieged inside Rabia Hospital where the shootng was before its main glass
gate and its small rear gate. The soldiers directly targeted both gates and they were
thoroughly smashed. They began to fre inside the hospital with gas bombs and we
got sufocated.
I descended to the ground foor where someone splashed Pepsi at my face and gave
me water to drink. I went upstairs again with a man; the frst foor was like a pool of
blood. In front of us there was an armored vehicle calling for a safe leave. He pulled
my hand and we lef the place with others raising our hands. However, bullets were
showered heavily,
so we ran to the hospital and told him that they would arrest everyone getng out
of here. However, we took the risk and changed our way to the feld hospital and
Masjid. I was dismayed by what I saw: the feld hospital was so cruelly burning and
thick black smoke rushed everywhere. I saw men, women and children crowded
between the halls on fre and the Masjid on a mini Resurrecton Day. I saw men's
defeat, killing the Egyptans in the streets, setng the mosques and hospitals on fre,
as well as burning women and children!
I witnessed genocide! Trees, masjids, hospitals and tents were all burned. Did they
use napalm?!! Maybe! Fire was unnatural. It was not logical to cause such burning
with a match and gas! The number of burned organs I saw was unbelievable. Did they
kill people alive? Yes, they killed them directly with bullets or by burning them alive
to avoid their testmonies on what happened!
Dr. Hassan Al-Prince:
The mother of all crimes was setng a massive fre to the hospital including the
injured and corpses of martyrs in order to hide a part of crime!
* Dr. Hassan Elbrens speaking about the lies on the corpses
hidden under the rostrum:
Some of corpses which were dried afer burning were taken and wrapped in shrouds
under the rostrum to claim that these corpses were victms of demonstrators and
were buried under it. This lie can be rebuted as follows:
1- The new shrouds had no dust or blood.
2- Hundreds of Egyptans and foreigners who visited Rabia Square inspected under
the rostrum.
3- We did not learn about any reports of missed people all the period of the sit-in
long.
4- How were those corpses burned by demonstrators with no smell or smoke while
the rostrum was on air and surrounded with thousands of people all the period of the
sit-in?
5- The rostrum base was wooden and fammable, and under it there were cables and
computer wires that controlled the broadcast and montage that published songs and
parts of the legitmate presidents speeches.
6- We did not see any digging by pro-coup under the rostrum immediately afer
breaking it down. If this had been done, they would not be hesitated to broadcast it
live by pro-coup media.
7- Neither the police nor the army did take snifer dogs in order to detect the places
of the buried corpses in all TV shots that were broadcasted.
* The Manayfa block: A symbol of heroism :
Mohammad Al-Sanhawy:
One of the tremendous massacres at Rabi'a was what happened at Al-Manayfa
Block, an under constructon building at Al-Tayaran street, beside Cook Door
Restaurant and in front of the Mobil Gas Staton. According to various testmonies,
that building was a stumbling block for the dispersing forces to have access to
the square. At the end of the day and before storming the square completely, the
building was atacked heavily by helicopters, snipers and grenof guns. The building
was inspected and stormed by the Special Forces from downstairs to upstairs and
vice versa. Murder was their only choice. At that building, hundreds of men, women
and children were murdered without mercy. A handful of persons who survived told
me that the Special Forces soldiers entered the building afer killing the youths who
were protectng it. The Special Forces soldiers kicked the wounded so hard in the
stomach. If a wounded person moaned or made any move telling them he was stll
alive, they shot him dead in the head.
That man who survived narrated that he decided to bear all kicks with no sign of
groan or move in order to save his life. He said, An ofcer kicked me with his leg in
my stomach, but I did not moan. He jumped high and kicked me again throwing all
his weight on my stomach, but I did not moan. When he made sure of my death, he
lef the foor along with the forces afer killing all people there and ascended to the
next foor. I waited untl they went away and atempted to escape by jumping from
the building to the ground.
I saw genocide: massive killings, burning the corpses and the wounded, killing the
injured with bullets, ethnic genocide, targetng the paramedics and the captves in
the queue of detainees, using heavy weapons against weaponless people, setng
the mosques and hospitals on fre; all horrible incidents were there. What happened
at Rabi'a was the extreme of disbelief. We shall not forget or forgive. We shall not
neglect the punishment as well.
The building named by the demonstrators as Al-Manayfa Block
* Out of Rabia Square :
If memories about all what happened fade as we age, the scene of being forced
to leave the square will never fade; memories then are very stable. This scene will
provoke the fuse of return chantng and cheering 'Allah Akbar', rejoicing in God 's
victory, praying for Martyrs hoping to catch up with them.
Belal Wahb
We weren't defeated and didn't withdraw. The ground which is beneath us testfes.
We were burned as standing trees untl their ripest fruits were fallen down; i.e.,
martyrs O Square! If your ground lasted longer before that incineraton, we would
stand stll in the face of death another day!
Doaa Eweida:
We went out but couldn't stop our tears being forced to leave the square in that way.
As soon as we went out, we heard, from a short distance, a strong sound and saw
thick black smoke over the square from the place which we went out. Then we knew
that the criminals have forced the doctors to get out so that they could set fre to the
feld hospital housing the martyrs and wounded remained inside. We went out of the
square with bleeding hearts just saying 'Allah is sufcient for us and He is our best
Guardian.'
Camera: Mosaab El-Shamy
Naglaa Salih
When I went to an exit through Rabi'a hospital, I found the ofcers shootng people.
The ground was full of blood. Suddenly an ofcer said, Come here and get out...
There were a lot of injured persons behind me. I passed through the door then to the
street unbelieving that he didn't kill us.
A friend told me that a fre engine sprayed Rabi'a Mosque and its feld hospital with
petrol. Rabi'a then was burned. I also knew from Bisan Essam, a friend of mine who's
a doctor, that the policemen ordered the doctors to leave without any wounded
people; otherwise they will be burned as well. All Rabi'a and whoever there were
burned.!
Roqia Mohammed Al-Khodary
I went down, with Khadiga and Marwa and was shocked to see the policemen on the
ground foor dressed in black uniforms, clutching their rifes, and looking at us with
a gloatng smile saying, To stay at home is beter, isn't it? Come, come and don't
worry, we wont harm you.
We came out of the hospital through the back door, overlooking Anwar Al-Mofy St.
behind Rabi'a's Mosque. People lef exactly like war captves.!
Camera: Mosaab El-Shamy
Hager Dawood
We exited surrounded by the Special Police forces and armored vehicles. They hurled
their insults at us, and in return we said, Allah is Sufcient for us and He is our best
Guardian. Most of us were either the hospitals doctors or women.
Fatima Khalid :
This scene of our exit from the mosque was unforgetable. We went out as prisoners
of war. There were armed people on the two sides pointng their weapons to our
faces and wearing black uniform. Their bodies are wrapped by weapons called
special band. We were forced to pass between them and knew that this was a
safe exit!! How? When we were going out, there were guns shootng at us. Martyrs
were being carried by people walking. Our great army and honorable policeman were
laughing and standing upon the armored military vehicle stcking out their tongues! !
- Aisha Emad:
It was more comfortable to die as a martyr than to exit like that. I stopped and looked
at the martyrs saying, You're fortunate! However, I saw the armored military
vehicle running behind us; it was inevitable to walk.
Those infdels went out from their burrows gloatng over us but we were trustul in
God's victory Allah is our Guardian.
We walked in the streets and we didn't know where we were going. An armored
military vehicle and a police's vehicle came by us shootng to frighten us. We passed
by some thugs who were dancing, cheering and using freworks. Then we went to Al-
Zahraa Masjid with Port Said Brothers (Ikhwan).

- Doaa Emad:
All of us lef the Monument Street Alnosb Eltezkary. Men were forced to raise
their hands during exit as war captves. They were hit and insulted. If anyone utered
a word, the ofcers would shoot beside or above him, or even in the leg. They fred
their weapons while they were ordering us. For example, one was ordered by the
ofcer to show the identty card with a fre shot, a mean and coward act.
Mohammed Basuony
We were ordered by an ofcer to a certain directon; however, there was an ambush.
We found more ofcers who dealt with us as detained Jews. They rudely insulted us
and forced us to sleep on our stomach and put our hands behind our backs. They hit
our heads with a machine gun to obey their orders quickly. They took our mobiles
and identty cards. Then, another ofcer came and set us to an army ambush. The
army abusively treated us more than the police did. I saw a cross on the hand of the
military ofcer who ordered the soldiers to abuse us. Then a military senior came and
ordered the ofcer to release us; consequently, we lef the square.
Amr Omran
We lef raising our hands and looking sharply at them feeling unsafe. The queston
raised then: 'How our God did create such creatures without any humanity?'
They were looking on, gloatng and insultng us: Syrians and terrorists you are!
People were looking at us and photographing us; we then were certain that they lost
their morals and humanity.
We saw bared and trodden dead bodies of children and girls on the ground. We were
frightened to put them a side or even to cover them up.
Dr. Lamia Mayer:
It was about six o' clock when I and my friends decided to exit from a safe way. I went
out with a group of people, with a fnal look at the ofcers in black military suits and
masks holding very enormous weapons. Their skin was also swarthy; their bodies
were so huge. They deployed on the ground foor where we were besieged. The
armored vehicle was standing directly in front of the main door; there was a monster
inside it yelling, The person who is going to exit now will be safe. We said, Allah is
sufcient for us..
Hager Khalid
During vacatng the square, they allowed the people to exit as prisoners of war
putng their hands on their heads or behind their backs. Anyone who put on a mask
was beaten nearly to death and then thrown at us.
Gehad Khalid Hefzy
When we were going out of the square, we were photographed as prisoners of war.
We were sorted at the barriers to take men and let women go. We were insulted,
menaced and threatened by the scoundrels.
If they say that here are the photos of surrendering citzens and they sympathized
with them, and so let them leave peacefully, they will be liars. We went out afer
we were slaughtered and choked to get our children back home and then exit to
complete.
If they say that they did not harm anyone afer dispersing, they will be liars. Afer
we had been photographed and during our exit, we were chased in the street by
their bombs and shotguns. They even shot the mosque during the Maghreb prayer,
and the Imam asked them on the microphone to stop shootng tll completng the
prayer.

Romysaa Ramadan
Whenever I listen to someone who witnessed the dispersion of Rabia's sit-in, I fnd
implicatons I didn't hear before. Hardly one fnds a story similar to the other, as if
there were one hundred thousand squares equivalent to the number of the people
there. On that day, everyone was running, observing, recording with his eyes and
narratng his own story. I try to follow up everyone who witnessed that day and
search for testmonies of all people. I try to stck puzzle pieces beside each other to
complete the image, but it doesn't become idiomorphic. The more I hear and follow
up, the more the image area expands. So I'm not able to know its dimensions.
Rabia's dispersion is a historical incident; I think that many years will pass for one to
be oriented of what has happened. Stories will not end throughout the years. We
will hear a new thing we have never heard. Many years will pass to see the image
clearly idiomorphic. .
* When and how were the dead enshrouded at Rabia?
- Yaser Selim:
Shootng Rabi'a for dispersing the sit-in started at about 6.30 a.m. and lasted for
more than 10 hours untl the whole square was completely evacuated. During that
period of tme, we built more than a feld hospital and prepared more than a place
to receive the wounded and dead. A number of doctors were there to treat the
wounded people and save other cases as much as possible..
They received persons who had already died.
Some people were there to shroud the dead.
The names of the dead were writen on the burial shrouds
All that was happening during the shootng and dispersion
* Al-Iman Mosque:
Given the locaton of the mosque, located near the end of Makram Ebeid Street from
Nasr Road directon and due to its proximity to Rabi'a Al-Adaweya sit-in, siters were
able to move many of the dead and wounded to the mosque to protect them from
the savagery of bulldozers and inhuman fres launched during the break-in.
A lot of volunteers moved to the mosque to treat the wounded and to shroud the
dead. They wrote the data of each martyr on the shroud to facilitate the access of
their bereaved families, and to resolve the difcultes these families would face while
obtaining the burial permits issued in coordinaton between the Ministry of Health,
the Public Prosecuton and the Forensic Medical Authority.
On the other hand, the people of the district transferred the corpses surrounding
the Mosque by their private cars to the Zeinhom Mortuary untl Thursday morning,
August 15, 2013.
Local and foreign newspaper correspondents came to Al-Iman Mosque to take photos
and make an interview with the relatves of the victms. Some correspondents who
supported the coup were disguised in fear of the reacton of the people.
The news said that the number of corpses was more than 228. It was difcult to
determine the accurate number as the corpses were transferred outside the Mosque
afer the relatves had identfed them. Workers inside the mosque assured that these
numbers did not include the reports of the Ministry of Health, which proves that the
number of victms was more than the formal statstcs.
The eforts of the workers and voluntary doctors inside the mosque contnuously
exerted, not only for one or two days, but also for three days. They were willing
persons whose trends and visions are diferent, or persons who disagreed with the
Ikhwan Group threatening the comeuppance for those martyrs.
The voluntary doctor Mustafa Abd El-Ghany assured that there were a lot of
unknown corpses charred as a result of burning the tents and the Field Hospital of
Rabi'a Al-Adaweya which made it difcult for their relatves to recognize them. Sound
amplifers were used from inside the mosque urging the victms relatves to exit
because of the hot atmosphere and sufocaton caused by the intense crowd; the air-
conditoners and fans were not enough.
The feld hospital inside the mosque asked the volunteers to bring odor and cleansing
materials because the smell of some of the dead began to be strong as tme passed.
The victms families and relatves started to transfer the corpses outside and Al-Iman
Mosque to move them to Zeinhom Mortuary. A huge crowd was there; their yelling
against the police was extremely strong accusing them of killing the victms during
dispersing the sit-in. Since the Zeinhom Mortuary was asking the relatves to sign a
report confrming that the deceased was commited suicide to obtain a burial permit,
they declared their intension to start an open sit-in in the Mosque's area tll they
would receive and bury the dead. Many of them did the funeral prayer on the victms
in El-Iman Mosque on Thursday morning, August 15, 2013.
It is worth mentoned that the General Abd El-Fatah Othman announced a statement
that the security forces detected a number of cars which carried corpses from
diferent governorates, and the corpses were brought by Ikhwan and put in the
mosque to be displayed as Rabia's victms.
The corpses which were inside Al-Iman Mosque were exposed to atempts of stealing
by the security forces to be buried in Rabi'a Al-Adaweya. They intended to accuse the
peaceful demonstrators of murder and broadcast this on the TV channels supportng
the military coup. As a result, the crimes of the coup regime increased. This tyrant
regime is undoubtedly responsible for the killing and burning of the demonstrators in
Rabi'a Al-Adaweya, and hence efacing the features of the crime.
Camera: Sara Alaa
* Zeinhom Mortuary:
To kill citzens by their armies of treachery and intrigue means nothing in comparison
to the bargains made on the dead and to the salt poured on the wounds of the
wounded. So did the great Army of Egypt, and did the families of the martyrs who
tasted death many tmes.
No longer in our country are reasons alone prone to become numerous versus a
single death, but death varied too. There are people who were shot dead and others
who died out of the atrocity of the horror scenes, etc.
The violatons of the Army were not limited to the bloodshed and killing, but
they exceeded to include the sanctty of death. The army would nearly catch
the processions of martyrs to their graves. Under the human laws, everything
is respectable and sanctfed when death comes. Even in the laws of the jungle,
death becomes a red line not exceeded by beasts or catle. Notwithstanding, a new
barbarism embarked in our country and the meaning of sanctty vanished from all
things.
The families of the martyrs tried to heal their inner wounds and went to Zeinhom
Mortuary to issue reports by the Forensic Authority, and consequently obtain the
burial permits to cofn their martyrs and move them to their graves. They wished
they knew the adversity which would await them. Not only were the tyrants burning,
shootng and distortng, but they also forced the families of the martyrs who could
identfy the bodies of their loved ones to sign papers confrming that the deceased
commited suicide.
Martyrs are honored everywhere, but in Egypt, they are regarded as 'commited
suicide'. Some people who wanted to honor their dead were forced to sign that
paper. Others refused and protested in front of the mortuary untl they could fnd a
soluton for their issue. The alternate soluton was to have a report with scribbles
writen beside the cause of death!
A burial permit for a Rabi'a Massacre's victm
A disastrous scene: a mother sitng beside her son's corpse thrown before the
Mortuary where the blood prevailed. She waited for a change in the death cause
for obtaining a burial permit. Marwa, a daughter of a murdered man, Ahmed Abd
Elsamad, 48 years, said that Zeinhoum Mortuary asked her family to sign a report
declaring that her father commited suicide in order to get a burial permit, though
her father was shot dead with two bullets in his shoulder and back. Pierces by bullets
in hearts and chests were not enough! Indeed, it is humanity that was pierced,
ruptured and dispersed!
Regarding her brother's murder, the actress Leqa'a Sweidan witnessed, on lots of TV
channels, that a huge numbers of corpses were at Elkasr Eleiny Hospital and their
relatves could not receive them. The hospital administraton and the Ministry of
Health evaded their responsibility of these corpses and the only way to accelerate
the process of obtaining a Death Certfcate was to sign a paper confrming that the
deceased commited suicide. That was only if one was lucky and could identfy the
body as many dead were charred and could only be identfed with the DNA test.
There were mutlated bodies that no longer a mouth or a nose was identfed. There
were whole brains cast outside the skulls.
Outside Zeinhoum Mortuary on the day following
Rabi'a Massacre
Amid all that misery, due to the crowd, blood and hot temperature of mid-August,
corpses were thrown on the corridors of the Mortuary, even exceeding it to the
surrounding streets and the side piles of garbage. The huge number of martyrs made
it even harder for the families' dogged search process. Each family divided their
members into groups whose tasks were to fnd out the dead not the living ones. In
order that a girl could fnd her dead father, she had to unveil shrouds on hundreds of
corpses in a horrible scene not knowing if she could at the end fnd him or would he
be among those who were lost. The frst night ended, but most of people did not fnd
their dead relatves. The dead smell was extremely strong. Some people volunteered
with refrigerator cars to accumulate corpses on them. When cars were full of corpses,
people brought ice sacks to be put on the blooded shrouds.
In an interview with Al-Mesryoon Newspaper, Mohamed Abdel Aal, 42, resident at Al-
Kobba Gardens in Cairo, said:
I've come to Zeinhom Mortuary searching for my brother Ahmed Abdel Aal, 47, a
driver, who was absent from home tll now. I searched for him at the police statons
as well as government and private hospitals; however, all these trials were in vain.
Eventually, I came here to search for him among available and unknown corpses at
the Mortuary but in vain. When the dead were displayed on TV, I couldn't identfy my
brother's body as most bodies were totally charred. Doctors there told me to leave
my DNA sample in order to be conformed to the bodies in the Mortuary. The test
result would be known in ten days.
Mohamed Hasanein, 26, working for a private company in Cairo, is a witness inside
Zeinhom Mortuary who spent 48 hours at the service of the bodies that were roten
due to the lack of enough refrigerators. He also assisted the doctors at necropsy
operatons without making the security men notce him. He said that he went to
Zeinhom Mortuary on the day of dispersing Raba'a and Al-Nahda sit-ins as one of his
friends' relatves was killed. His friend is called Haitham Al-Shawaf, a coordinator of
the Revolutonary Force Coaliton and a member of June 30 Ftont; he was killed at Al-
Nahda Square incidents.
When I went there, I found so many corpses around the Mortuary. Its capacity was
not enough for such a massive number of dead bodies. On the next day, I wanted to
go to the Mortuary to search for the corpse of my friend Waleed to bury it. When I
was objected by the security men, I told them the reason why I wanted to enter it,
and they allowed me only see a human disaster of violatng the dead sanctty. All
corpses were thrown on the ground. There was no human treatment in necropsy;
there was no sttching of cut parts due to the lack of required materials. I tried to
help the doctors and workers there. I moved the corpses thrown on the ground to
the rooms designated for that. Also, I divided rooms into certain categories to enable
necropsy of more corpses since many were thrown on the street surrounding the
Mortuary for its incapacity to handle the huge number of corpses.
Hasaneen added that because of the lack of refrigerators, people of Al-Saida Zeinab
district covered corpses with lots of ice not to be roten due to their stay on the
streets for two days. They also gave shrouds to the relatves of the dead.
It was a disaster that seemed not to end. Indeed, it will not end in the hearts of those
who lived and witnessed it unless perpetrators are punished.
* The Lies of Military Operations Commanders about Rabia
Massacre :
The forces did not shoot a single bullet. Ofcers and soldiers found bad-smelling
shrouded bodies prepared to be flmed for the Western media. General Medhat
Al-Menshawy, Commander of Special Forces, stated in an interview published by
Alyoom Assabea newspaper..
General Medhat Al-Menshawy
Major Bahaa Ashareef
In another interview with Al-Wafd newspaper, Major Bahaa Ashareef, Commander of
Rabaa Operaton, said: Gas and water were the only weapons used. We started with
a warning by microphones and the help of inhabitants. Then we used sonic vibraton
vehicles followed by tear gas and water, heavily and occasionally, to secure a way out
for them. The numbers did gradually decrease. We kept using gas for a long tme to
avoid bloodshed.
Ashorook newspaper published an interpositon in Hona Al-'Asima show with Hasan
Moosa, the Head of the Central Security Forces: The sits in set fre to the cars in area
and threw fre over the police men. They disregarded the warning to evacuate the
square and cooperate with the police. When they blew up the gas staton and fre
engines, we had to use gas bombs heavily and surround them.
Major Ashareef added: The Minister of Interior and the Commander of Special
Forces recommended the forces to have self-control and secure the sits in, especially
women and children.
Major Bahaa Ashareef
* Rabia Massacre Martyrs:
It was harsh to look into the details of the most austere massacre in modern history.
It was terrible to see the burnt or distorted features of the bodies.
I spent many days searching for names, addresses, photos, and social networking
accounts.
Sorrow was bleeding among the leters of obituary and words of elegy.
I became a relatve to all martyrs.
I have known much about them, their children, spouses, relatves, study, and their
good courses of life.
I realize this was the cruelest task ever to do. However, I found the meaning of
cruelty in the stories told by the relatves about their exhaustng journeys in search
of the bodies. A woman sees a photo of a martyr and realizes it is her fathers. A man
tells how his brothers body was burned. A young lady cannot believe her groom
has passed away. Others could not even fnd the bodies; they just saw a photo on
Facebook. In additon, many others were missed.
I tried as I could to publish the photos of the dead when they were alive. We consider
them alive as Allah says in His Quran: But do not think of those that have been
slain in God's cause as dead. Nay, they are alive! With their Sustainer have they their
sustenance. They went out there to advocate Allahs words and stood against the
killing machine as they believed in the Prophet Mohammads saying: The best of
all martyrs is Hamza Ibn Abdul-Motaleb, and a man who stood up in the face of an
oppressive ruler to enjoin and forbid him and was killed by him. (Revised by Al-
Albany)
We regard them living martyrs stood against the tyrant, Al-Sisy, who killed and burned
them with no mercy even towards a senile or a young man, a man or a woman.
I tried hard to count all martyrs, but it could be mistaken or incomplete.
I apologize for all the martyrs relatves for any unintended negligence.
I could fnd 210 photos out of
For any additons or modifcatons in the second editon to the martyrs list (name,
photo or address), please don't hesitate to contact us (twthek@hotmail.com).
Yaser Selim
A photo collage of some of the victms of Rabaa massacre
Some of the victims of
Rabaa massacre..
Abdulaal Al-Daidamony-
Sharkeia
Abdulazeem Hussein
Shaltoot- Gharbeia
Abdulfatah Albarbary-
Qalubeia
Abdulhalim Abo Gendi-
Gharbeia
Abdulghafour Eid
Abdullah Ahmed Al-
Sayed Ibrahim
Abdullah Hassan
Albanna- Cairo
Abdullah Mohamed
Abdulhafeez- Sharkeia
Abdullah Bakry- Fayoum
Abdullah Sultan
Abdullah Yasser
Kharouba- Damieta
Abdullah Rageh- Cairo
Abdullateef Tawfeek
Ahmed- Alexandria
Abdulnasser Aggag-
Dakahleia
ABdulrahman
Aldaidamony- Sharkeia
Abdulrahman Farag-
Cairo
Abdulrahman Al-Sayed
Abdeen- Menofeia
Abdulrahman Al-Sayed
Al-Sayed- Menofeia
Abdulrahman Khaled
Al-Deeb- Dakahleia
Abdulrahman Oweis
Abdulrahman Metwally-
Ismaelleia
Abdulrahman Nader-
Cairo
Abdulrahman Nasser
Hassan- Sharkeia
Abdulrahman Hamdy
Mohamed- Cairo
Abdulrahman Taha-
Dakahleia
Abo Obaida Kamal Al-
Deen- Al-Fayoum
Abdulrahman Saeed
gouda- Cairo
Abdulrahman Samy
Hamza- Cairo
Abdulreheem Youssef-
Menoufeia
Aby Mahmoud Elmasry-
Cairo
Adam Hatem Adam-
Cairo
Adham Mohamed Ezzat-
Gharbeia
Ahmed Mahmoud
Alsebaei- Swais
Adel Sobhy Ali
Adel Abdulgawad-
Qaliubeia
Adel Farghaly
Ahmed Fathy Kamel-
Menofeia
Ahmed Essat
Abdulmoez- Cairo
Ahmed Elsayed Hussein
Hassan- Sharkeya
Ahmed Amin Albalka-
Dakahleia
Ahmed Ashraf-
Damietta
Ahmed Diaa Farahat-
Cairo
Ahmed Alsarawy Ahmed Abdulhamid
Bayomi- Cairo
Ahmed Ali Sonbol- Cairo
Ahmed Abdulaal
Alhaddad
Ahmed Abdulgawad Ahmed Abdulfatah-
Cairo
Ahmed Mohamed Hafez Ahmed Mohamed
Hussein
Ahmed Mohamed
Hassaan Salem
Ahmed MAhmoud
Ahmed Baz- Sharkeia
Ahmed Mohamed
Alzanani- Menofeia
Ahmed Mohamed Eid-
Sharkeia
Ahmed Helal- Fayom Ahmed Kadry-
Alexandria
Ahmed Helmy
Abdulmooty- Sharkeya
Ahmed Galal- Sarkeya Ahmed Gamal Mostafa Ahmed gomaa Ahmed
Alsayed- Cairo
Alarabi Alsayed
Almesedi
Ahmed Zaky Diaa-
Dakahleia
Ahmed Wahba Alshafei-
Damieta
Ahmed Yusuf Alafsh-
Dakahleia
Ali Khaled Hassan- Cairo Ali Metwally- Ismaelia
Ahmed Saeed Ahmed-
Ismaeleia
Ahmed Saeed Ammar-
Cairo
Ahmed Salahuldeen-
Alexandria
Ahmed Mohamed
Shaker- Cairo
Ahmed Reda Ibrahim-
Sharkeya
Ahmed Saad Sadafy-
Bany sweif
Asem Mohamed
Ibrahim Al-Gamal
Antar Samir- Cairo Ashraf Abo Essa-
Qaliobeya
Ashraf Sadek Ashraf Shaaban
Abdulhamid- Fayuom
Asmaa Albeltagy- Cairo
Ammar Salah- Menofa Amr Azzam- Cairo Amr Ali Genedy-
Gharbia
Almoatasem Bellah
Ahmed Marzouk-
Banysweif
Amir Mostafa Beder-
Cairo
Ammar Abdo Emara-
Menofa
Ayman Kamal Auda-
Qalyobeia
Ayman Mahmoud
Alshafei- Gharbeia
Ayman Saad Mohamed
Abdullah- Sharkeia
Ayman Zaki
Diaa Foaad
Almasallawy- Menofeia
Diab Abdulsalam Ali
Diab
Atia Ramadan Ata-
Qalubia
Ata Mohamed Ata-
Dakahlia
Awwad Sayed Toleba-
Bany Sweif
Asmaa Sakr- Cairo Atef Mohamed
Abdullateeh- Sharkeia
Atef Rashed Mohamed
Salem- Sharkeia
Gamal Alsherif- Sharkeia Gamal Atan- Albeheira
Habiba Ahmed
Abdulaziz- Menofeia
Fekry Al-Maghalawy-
Kafr Al-Batekh
Haitham Zannoun-
Menofa
hamed Abdullah
Negeda- Sharkia
Emad Khalefa
Mohamed- Luxor
Emad Mohamed Salem
Ibrahim
Fahmy Ahmed
Abdulmoaty- Sharkia
Eid Mohamed Moslem-
Ismaelia
Elsayed Bakry Emad El-deen Okasha
Qasem- Menofa
Hossam Abdulnasser
Fateet- Menofeya
Hossam Mahmoud
Adawy- Cairo
Hossam Eldeen Atef-
Menofeya
Hozaifa Abdulzaher
Haytham Sharaf-
Menofa
Hend Hesham Kamal-
Cairo
Hassan Sayed Mahmoud
Elgamal- Qaliubeya
Hassan Ali Hammam-
Alexandria
Hassan Albanna Eid
Hassan- Sheikh Zayed
Hamoud Shalaby-
Behera
Hamoud Saf Farag
Abdullah
Hany Abdulrahman-
Damieta
Islam Hassan Darwish-
Menofeia
Khalad Mohamed
Osama- Dakahleia
Khaled Elleethy- Cairo Khairy Almeleegy-
Menofeia
Islam Mohamed
Abdulhamid- Sharkeia
Karim Al-Sayad- Banha
Islam Abbas
Almenshawy- Giza
Islam Abdulhamid- Kafr
Elsheikh
Ibrahim Ragab Esawy-
Cairo
Ibrahim Fawzy Fares-
Dakahleya
Ibrahim Mostafa Al-
Azab- Gharbeia
Ibrahim Mousa
Mohamed Eisa-
Menofeya
Mahmoud Amin Qandil-
Menofa
Mahmoud Hamed-
Menofa
Mahmoud Azab- Sharkia
Mahmoud Al-Dengawy-
Damieta
Mahmoud Al-Sayed
Gamil- Cairo
Mahmoud Fathy Al-
Sanhoty
Maher Kamal Al-
Debeky- Cairo
Mahmoud Ahmed
Galalin- Luxur
Mahmoud Ahmed
Matar- Menofa
Khaled Walid Elshal-
Dakahleia
Maged Yussuf- Cairo Loty Abdulmaged-
Alexandria
Malek Al-Ashmawy-
Menofa
Malek Safwat Al-Shemy-
Cairo
Medhat Abo Hashem
Mahmoud- Sharkia
Mashhout Ali Mekky-
Al-Behera
Moamen Mohsen
Saada- Sharkia
Moataz Mohamed
Helmy Hasanen
Mahmoud Saad
Mahmoud- Ismaellia
Mahmoud Rabea-
SHarkia
Mahmoud Saad
Abdultawab- Cairo
Mahmoud Mohamed
Mohamed- Sharkia
Mahmoud Mohamed
Sarhan- Menofa
Mahmoud Mostafa
Maamoun- Cairo
Mohamed Abdulrahman
Salem- Kafr El-Sheikh
Mohamed Ahmed
Fathelbab- Alexandria
Mohamed Ahmed Hany
Abdulmaksod
Mohamed Abdulwahed-
Sohag
Mohamed Ahmed
Roshdy- Cairo
Mohamed Ali
Mohamed- Cairo
Mohamed Abdulrahman
Al-Ashram- Dakahlia
Mohamed Abdulmenem
Al-Aseel- Damieta
Mohamed Abdulmawla-
Ismaellia
Moaz Sayed Mostafa
Saboalleil- Qalubia
Mohamed Abdulhamid
Al-Qassas- Menofa
Mohamed Abdulbaset-
Cairo
Mohamed Gamal-
Qalubia
Mohamed Hassaan
Mohamed Azab
Mohamed Fahmy
Sadek- Alexandria
Mhamed Farag
Ghobashy- Port Saeed
Mohamed Kamel
Mostafa Ads- Al-Behera
Mohamed Al-Shabrawy-
Sharkia
Mohamed Al-Shehaby-
Damieta
Mohamed Atef Al-
Nahrawy- Menofa
Mohamed Al-Morsy Al-
Oraby- Damieta
Mohamed Ali Qandil-
Gharbia
Mohamed Al-Saadany-
Alexandria
Mohamed Saleh
Abdulbaqy- Menofa
Mohamed Samir
Mohamed- Qalubia
Mohamed Ramadan-
Cairo
Mohamed Mostafa
Mekawy- Sharkia
Mohamed Mohamed
Serag- Dakahlia
Mohamed Othman
Shakhroba- Damieta
Mohamed Mohamed
Abdulaal- Dakahlia
Mohamed Meselhy
Abduldayem- Menofa
Mohamed Mahmoud
Yaqout- Cairo
Mohamed Salahuldeen-
Giza
Mohamed Salih Al-
Faramawy- Cairo
Mohamed Yassen
Aggag- Qalubia
Mostafa Ramadan
Mekkawy- Menofa
Mosaab Al-Shamy-
Alexandria
Mostafa Nour- Giza
Mostafa Mahmoud
Mousa- Qalubia
Mostafa Mahmoud Rizk
Mostafa Al-Sayed Ali-
Al-Fayoum
Mohanad Sallam
Shehata
Mokhtar Mostafa Helal-
Sharkia
Mostafa Abdulgawad-
Menofa
Mostafa Al-Qersh
Mostafa Mogahed
Ghareeb- Sharkia
Mostafa Osama
Abdulmegeed- Cairo
Mostafa Zakaria Al-
Kordy- Menofa
Mostafa Saeed Ismaeel-
Qalubia
Osama Alserief Osama Alsayed Hawas-
Port Saeed
Naguib Abdulghany Abu
Raya- Menofa
Nasser Sherif- Kafr El-
Sheikh
Omar Al-Farouk Sedky-
Dakahlia
Omar Gamal Saad-
Qalubia
Omar Hareedy- Port
Saeed
Omar Mohamed
Zakaria- Port Saeed
Omar Refaat Barakat-
Damieta
Omar Saber Al-
karamany- Sharkia
Ramy Hussein Abdulaal-
Dakahleia
Reda Moawad- Cairo
Ramadan Mohamed
Ateia- Dakahleia
Saad Fathy El-Oraby-
Damieta
Saeed Al-Gazzar- Cairo Sabry Abulgheit-
Dakahleia
Saeed Tohamy Matar-
Menofeia
Sabry Abdulfatah Al-
Rasheedy- Qena
Osama Yunis Badawy-
Cairo
Osama Galal Sakr-
Menofeia
Osama Eldesoky-
Alexandria
Osama Helal Amer
Yasser Magdy Ahmed
Sadek- Cairo
Yasser Magdy Moaaz-
Ismaellia
Wael Nasser Mohamad
Fadloul
Waleed Qandil- Giza
Yahia Zakaria Hawas-
Giza
Sohail Mohamed Al-
Sadek- Sharkeia
Salah Al-Hagary- Tanta Sayed Mohamed Saad
Tarek Ibrahim- Cairo
Tarek Abdulaziz Eissa-
Gharbeia
Tarek Abdulnabi
Salama- Dakahleia
Tarek Fathallah Al-
Sayyar- Kafr El-sheikh
* Conclusion:
The book has ended but sadness will never end; it is the sadness of a stolen country.
The pages have ended but they have not and will not be turned over yet.
We have not documented the aforementoned pages calling for pride or fame out
of sacrifces made by the best of Egypts people. No, we swear by almighty Allah
-though we have the right to be proud - we have documented disastrous crimes the
generatons may forget if they are not writen.
We have shortened the story of Truth and Falsehood in a few lines that will not give
those pure and worthy ones all or some of their rights as much as they deserve.
It is so hard for our hearts to make the blood a narrated story and to make the dead
people just numbers. This is not true, but we all will be in their debt our whole life;
For those who had not been mentoned before those mentoned;
For those who had been lost and disappeared before those who were mourned in
great funerals;
For those who had been put under bulldozers and in rubbish before those who died in
front of cameras;
For those whose faces had been distorted and their features had been disappeared
before those smiled persons with bright faces;
For every martyr, every wounded, every missed person and every detainee, who
deserve to be an icon we have the honour to belong to it and be belonged to us;
We have documented this work only for the sake of Allah then for history.
For those of understanding and conscience would to think and be reminded;
For the honest and free people so as not to surrender for the striking power and
tyrants;
And for the ignorant to know which curse will follow them in this world and in the
Hereafer;
Unquestonably, this is the promise of Allah.
Unquestonably, this is the promise of Allah.