Article 35

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Fury at Soccer Game Deaths in Egypt Drives New Clashes

Date Published: February 2, 2012

Date Accessed: February 3, 2012

Several soccer fans in Egypt battled with the police in a protest on the government's failure to   prevent dozens of soccer players death in a soccer riot in Port Said. All throughout Egypt people were injured by bird shots, ammunition fire, tear gas and stampedes. The fan also projected their fury against the supporters of the Said Club who attacked a visiting Cairo Club. These fans are known as Ultras. However this battle eventually led into protest against a common enemy, the Inner Ministry. Rumors spread that the police abetted the weapons into the stadium. But there is no proof to confirm it. The people started blaming the police of several things like lack of negligence to search the fans, allowing the Said fans to enter but no the Cairo fans and switching of the lights to provide cover to the Said fans.About 70 people have died. The protestors are condemning the interior ministry saying that they wanted to hurt the Cairo fans for their role in the protests against the government. Egypt's newly elected parliament has started investigation in the Interior Ministry's role in this matter.

The Egypt government had gone through a transitional state from the end of monarchy to a new parliamentary government. Throughout history we have seen several cases where people are fighting against themselves and end up fighting against a common enemy. The American Civil War is one such example. The Blacks and the whites were in constant fights against each other. However when the nation was torn apart into the Union and the Confederacy. The Union would have lost the Civil War had not the Blacks and Whites combined forces to fight against the Confederacy. It was through their collaborative efforts that the Union won. Thus even though they were enemies, in the time of crisis they fought together. Similarly in Egypt even though the supporters of the Cairo and Said clubs were fighting against each other, in the end they started protesting against common enemy Inner Ministry.

VOCABULARY

abetted

encourage or assist

ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense‘urge to do something good or bad’): fromOld French abeter, from a- (from Latin ad‘to, at’) + beter ‘hound, urge on.’

The father abetted his daughter to pursue her interest in the field of must even though her mother discouraged it.

condemn

express complete disapproval of, typically in public

ORIGIN Middle English ( sense 2): from Old French condemner, from Latin condemnare, from con- (expressing intensive force) +damnare ‘inflict loss on’ (see damn) .

The priest condemned his followers for burning down other religious places to show the superiority of the church.

collaborative

produced or conducted by two or more parties working together

India won Independence because of the collaborative efforts of Hindus and Muslims.