Egypt didn’t and won’t close the POWs file till the truth is revealed !!

I don’t know which one to believe the Egyptian foreign minister’s statement or the Israeli foreign minister’s statement 

The first says that the Egypt didn’t and won’t close the POWs file till the truth is revealed and that he asked angerily from the Israeli foreign minister to open an investigation about the crimes against the POWs

while the second appears laughing with the Egyptian foreign minister saying that her meeting with him and the jordanian foreign minister was historical with no mention what so ever to the requests or the demands of the Egyptian minister !!

anyhow I don’t care about this minister’s demand because really Egypt won’t close or forget the rights of its sons and this is what this website is doing

If the minister said so ,it would be great but I hope he is real and honest about it because from the pictures of the press Conference in Cairo I see them so happy

Link to FilBalad.News | أبو الغيط : مصر لم ولن تغلق ملف الأسرى حتى يتم كشف الحقيقة

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[tags]Politics, news, Egypt, Israel, POWs[/tags]

The red cross denial is no proof

I don’t believe the red cross and I don’t care what they say because I have got my people’s testimonies and they can’t be liars , my people for the great people of Sinai ,from Al-Arish who buried the POWs by their hands  and know the place of mass graves till our day

My people from the POWs who survived ,whether those who managed to escape or those who survived the hell of Atlit

If they don’t believe my people I don’t care

They got the Israeli confessions of General Biro in 1956 stating clearly as sun what he did from war crimes  against not military but also Egyptian civilians

They can prove if they want , but they don’t same like the Egyptian regime

Today Egyptian Foreign minister talked in TV on air about this report and he was so nervous and angry in a strange way I don’t why , he kept speaking for himself the revenge of those POWs was taken in 1973 war , well he was speaking for himself not for the majority of the Egyptian people

he received the report of the red cross and sent it to the assembly to be discussed and soon officially the scenario of what happened in 1995 from closing the discussion about the POWs will happen

I promise I will not close it

Link to FilBalad.News | الصليب الأحمر : لا دليل على قتل أسرى أو مستسلمين مصريين

[tags]Egyptian POWs, 1967, 1956, red Cross, foreign Minister, tv, media, Israel, Biro, history, politics, human rights, war Crimes[/tags]

Big fight in the assembly because of the POWs

Unfortunately I missed watching this session of the Egyptian assembly on air yesterday , now I guess it was edited to remove all what happened in it .Yesterday Foreign minister “Ahmed El-Gait” attended the meeting with the assembly members to discuss the updates of the POWs case and to discuss his statement about it , yet it didn’t go easy at all , it turned in to some kind of war of the world between the foreign minister and the MPs to become a historical session as the for the first time a foreign minister in Egypt would face such attack in the assembly.

The MPs accused the minister of ignoring the case where as the minister defended his position explaining the difficulty of the case as we can’t go to the international criminal court because it doesn’t look in cases that took place before the year 2002 , fact that is mentioned in the law section

Since then the arguments began ,the minister also hinted to fact I didn’t know before that if we want a special criminal court like the court of the war crimes that happened in Yugoslavia needs a special order for the security council and of course this would be like a mission impossible as the minister hinted.

It will be met with a veto from some of the permanent member countries in the council , if not most of them or all of them ,I don’t need to speak more.

 This did n’t like many MPs especially the minister was nervous that MP Mohamed Abd El-Fatah Omar from the National Security committee asked how , the minister answered angrily that because we have relations with other countries and we don’t need to burn it and that he couldn’t speak in front of the television and media, then the minister paused for a while and asking again even more angrier whether if the MP needed to know why the Russian federation would refuse and that he wouldn’t say because of the television , the head of the assembly Fatahi Sorror said that he could order to make it a close session but the suggestion was refused “well thank God it wasn’t accepted because then we couldn’t know exactly what happened in that stormy session”

The arguments continued and turned in to a confront between the minister and MP Rageb Hamida reached to the level that Minister “Abu El-Gait” described the talk of the MP as “Nonsense” which made the later answered or rather fired back saying that the Minister was a “Nonsense man” with a support from the other MPs that made both the head of the assembly and the minister of the parliament affairs try to calm things down.

And they succeeded in that thank Goodness. The foreign minister than apologized for his behavior and confirmed that he and the Egyptian foreign ministry refused to get one penny from Israeli as compensation for the POWs of 1967 and 1956 As if Israel is ready to pay !! because

Egypt is one who pays for its sons who scarified their lives for her !!

Already he didn’t shut here ,but continued saying what made the headlines in newspapers like Daily El-Dostor as a parody

I was going to kill myself from sadness on what happened for the Egyptian POWs on the 10th of June 1967

Just for the record the Egyptians didn’t know what happened to their sons on the 10th of June 1967 because the war was just started on the 5th and President Nasser presented his resignation on the 9th and after that there was the mini war between Nasser and Amar ,So I don’t know how he knew about what happened to our men in Sinai in that short time !!

From their side; the MPs accused the ministry to be weak that it gave up the Egyptian rights for the sake of Israel to the extent that our diplomats are being attacked abroad and that Saudi Arabia took the leadership from us and they requested that the statements of the Foreign ministry to hold some more dignity and strength than what they are now.

The head of the Parliament “Fatahi Sorror” said that he requested from the Euro Mediterranean parliament to investigate the case and requested also from the Egyptian parliament to form a  permanent committee ,its membership will include the MPs and officials from the Foreign ministry to document all the evidences that prove the Israeli guilt.

As you can see it was one hell of a session , you know I am surprised that MP “Mustafa Bakery” wasn’t among the angry MPs !!

Seriously if you want my opinion technically what the Minister said about the international court and the security council is unfortunately true ,already you can check the Laws section to know more and of course we don’t need to speak about the Israeli influence in the security Council , it is enough now that last year the security council did anything against the Israeli crimes in Lebanon because of the American support , it is something well known

But I disagree with him regarding the compensation , those men and their families are not less than the Holocaust victims and survivals with my all respect to them

Also I agree that the minister and the ministry are not doing their job as expected from them not only regarding this sensitive issue but other issues that made Egypt actually to lose its position in the Arab world to the Saudi Arabia.

Another thing I don’t respect the circus that happened yesterday starting by the minister and the MPs ,seriously the assembly has traditions to be respected

Link to FilBalad.News | حميدة لوزير الخارجية : أنت رجل “مهياص”

[tags]Egypt, Parliament, assembly, media, ministry, minister, Abu El-Gait, Politics, Egyptian POWs, Israel, 1967, 1956, history, security council, Holocaust, human rights[/tags]

They are studying the case !!

According to this news in Arabic president Mubarak gave his order to the Foreign ministry to study “The exact meaning in Arabic” the POWs Case with its both legal and political parts

This was the statement of Foreign minister in front of the Foreign and Arabic affairs committees in the assembly yesterday

He also said very important statement I believe it should be highlighted

Having Peace with Israel doesn’t mean that we will give up our dignity or rights

This really good and promising but I hope it would go beyond the “study”  

Link to FilBalad.News | أبو الغيط : الرئيس كلف وزارة الخارجية بدراسة قضية قتل الأسرى المصريين

 

[tags]Egypt, Foreign Minister, Abu El-Gait, Assembly, politics, Egyptian POWs, President Mubarak, Israel, Peace[/tags]

This is the result ,do something for God Sake

Ok we waited along and our officials are speaking nonsense ,ignoring the solid facts they have under their noses ,and what we got now instead an accusation that Egyptian army killed Israeli POWs in the 1973 war !!

Despite this news will make people laugh especially the military who fought back in 1973 , who know very about the 5 stars treatment the Israeli POWs got but I know that internationally we will find ourselves in the position of the victimizer instead of the victim, the shifting of truth will place and the Zionist lobby is there to help

For God Sake let the remainings of the officers in mass graves out let it speak and scream , let be their DNA .

The Israeli POWs had trips to visit Egypt famous sights when they were in our hospitality !!

[tags]Israel, Egypt, 1973 war, POWs, Media, News[/tags]

President Mubarak at last speaks

At last president Mubarak spoke about the Egyptian POWs after two or three weeks of silence , of course his statements come after the public anger in Egypt regarding this issue grew , same with the Public surprise for his silence all that time.

He spoke in an interview with “Momataz El-Kot” the chief in editor of weekly “Akhabr El-Youm” last Saturday, already Mr. “El-Kot” caused a great anger last week after he underestimated the Massacres and indirectly defended the IDF “don’t even ask!” , the problem of “El-Kot” that he is working in an official state owned newspaper , so anything he writes can be considered state’s opinion regardless of how silly it is .

Of course the interview included other important issues now not less than the POWs case like the constitution amendments.

Anyhow regarding the POWs who are the main concern of this website , this is what the President of Egypt said :

Egypt will  not give up the rights of her sons and martyrs .. We will practice our rights and take all necessary actions if the allegations of killing Egyptian POWs during the war 67 turned to be true, but we need to check all what said on this issue !!

The President added that the blood of our martyrs is not a matter of compromising or giving up

With my respect to all the President and what he said from a very excellent promise that there will be no comprise on the blood of our men and believe on the Israeli side they are taking this statement seriously

but I am surprised that he considered all what happened in 1967 to be allegations that needed to be proved , pardon me but Mr. Hosni Mubarak was in the army ,in the air forces during the 1967 war ,yes he was a teacher in the Air forces school then but all Egyptians knew about the crimes that happened in Sinai , all the people who had a contact with the army and its officers , only you had to go to the nearest military hospital to know from the wounded officers and soldiers how they escaped from the hell.

I don’t know what we need from evidence more than mass graves across Sinai

Another thing ,why only the concentration is limited on the POWs of 1967 , what about the POWs of 1956 , why they are always forgotten despite the fact we have a solid case against the Israeli generals like  Biro who confessed to kill the unarmed civilians and POWs across Sinai in 1956 , is n’t the confession the master of evidence !!??

Today also the foreign Minister of Egypt Mr. Ahmed Abu El-Gat gave some statements to the Middle East News agency , which is the official State News agency in Egypt saying in the context of the President that Egypt won’t give up its right but all what we need is documented authenticated evidence not press reports even from the Israeli government , with my all respect what is more documented and authenticated that mass graves and former soldiers and officers testimonies !!

[tags]Egypt, Egyptian POWs, Press, Mubarak, Israel, History, 1967, 1956, politics, international, middle East[/tags]

Fake Shaked documentary !!??

The headlines of the Radio and Television magazine says that the version of the “Rush Shaked” documentary which was given to the Egyptian Foreign ministry from the Israeli Television is faked one.I forgot to say that the Radio and Television magazine is a state owned magazine that follows the ministry of information.

I don’t want to say that I expected this ,the Israeli officials won’t give us the evidence on their guilt in the war easily.

Now I don’t know when the Foreign ministry stops depending upon the Israeli committees of investigations and starts a serious investigation from Egypt itself

Something many of you don’t know , after the 1956 and 1967 POWs massacres came to surface for the first time after decades in 1995 , the Foreign ministry also requested an Israeli investigation to conducted and guess what after 3 years that was in 1998 , the Foreign ministry received the report that denied any incident what so ever despite the confessions of the Israeli Paratroopers in 1956 themselves !!!

Well it seems that the Foreign ministry of Egypt with my all respect to it didn’t learn from its mistake.

Another related news yesterday Al-Arish saw a big protest after Friday’s prayer, hundreds requested the Egyptian government to cut the relations with Israel and also they demanded an international court to be held against who did these horrible crimes against the Egyptian POWs.

[tags]Rush Shaked, Documentary, Egypt, Israel, News, Media, 1967, 1956, Al-Arish, Politics, Middle East, History, Egyptian POWs, Human rights, War Crimes[/tags]

Petition for defending the POWs rights

This is an Arabic petition to the Head of the lawyers syndication in Egypt  in order to handle the POWs case nationally and internationally

Already I expected  this to happen sooner or later and despite its national flavor it is good to have

Please sigh it because it is important to gather ourselves more and more to get the rights of those innocent people

It is a try

And the one thousand miles walk starts with a mile

Link to نطالبكم بالدفاع عن حقوق أسرانا القتلى Petition

Good but it can be better

Ok this is a good sign , but not enough. Yesterday the spokesperson of the Egyptian Presidency Ambassdor Soliman Awad that the presidency is following the file of the Egyptian POWs and already assigned the foreign ministry to follow the case .Also the presidency understands and respects all the public anger for the blood of our POWs

This is a good sigh and for record it is the first since the issue was brought to surface since 1995 but it is not enough

I mean the foreign ministry in Egypt which is assigned from the presidency requested from Israel to investigate the inicdents!! With my all respect to the foreign ministry and its minister but Israel will never lead a serious investigation that will condemn its army in the end and its general and public figures to appear as war criminals

plus I can’t understand why we rely on Israel we got enough evidence for fair and solid accusations according to the international laws

first it happened on Egyptian land

second it is against international laws

third the mass graves and remainings of the bodies are still there and that is enough for accusation

fourth we got testimonies enough to head for the War crimes IJC

fifth it is not about 250 who were killed by Shaked there were thousands in 1967 and 1956

Al-ahram coverage in Arabic

Link to المصريون – صحيفة يومية مستقلة in Arabic

[tags]Egypt, Israel, Egyptian POWs, 1967, 1956, human rights, Preisdency, News, Politics, Middle East[/tags]

A change in the name

I changed the name of the website from the POW files to the Egyptian POWs , already insh Allah I intend to make the domain I am going to buy to be “Egyptian POWs” , I would like to hint that the one who reminded me about the name of the website is my dear Egyptian Sweet friend blogger “Blue

Another update now comments are working , well I guess

These are the still of the updates today

  1. The Laws section is updated with the Geneva Conventions and
  2. A new section in 1967 war section is opened regarding the Atlit prison  

From an other side , several Egyptian civil and human rights organizations requested the general attorny in Egypt to include 14 Israeli former members of the Shaked unit in the waiting lists in the Egyptian airports for arresting them in case they come to Egypt.

[tags]Egyptian POWs, Shaked Unit, Israel, Egypt, Human rights, interantional laws, Geneva Conventions[/tags]