Bevægelsen “Nej til vold” ville danne bro mellem Det Muslimske Broderskab og dets modstandere, men det endte i kaskader af vold og hundreder af lig i Kairos blodbestænkte gader – hvordan kunne det gå til?
DUBAI, 15 August 2013 (IRIN): Among at least 525 people killed Wednesday when Egyptian security forces moved to clear a weeks-long sit-in were two members of a civil society group promoting non-violence, called La Lil Onf (No To Violence in Arabic).
The group had been trying to bridge the growing gap between supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood movement and supporters of Tamarod, a civil society group that mobilized millions of Egyptians to take to the streets in opposition to him.
Responding to the mass protests, the army ousted Morsi on 3 July and installed a new interim government. Since then, hundreds of people have died in clashes.
Menan Samy, another member of La Lil Onf, told IRIN about their failed efforts at reconciliation, her lost hope of making any difference, and the struggle to keep even their group members united amid the growing polarization of Egyptian society:
“La Lil Onf grew out of Namaa’ Association for Sustainable Development, a summer school programme started in 2005. The goal was to get youth to study development theory, how to create change, and apply it to Egypt”.
“It was youth from all over the country – two from each governorate every year. A variety of people were involved: People from all types: Nasserites, Salafis, Muslim Brotherhood, liberals, all religions.
“After the 30 June [anti-Morsi protests], the Alumni of this programme – we are many, from different governorates, political views and religions – we called for a meeting, where we would discuss what could be done to try to [prevent] violence…”
“There were personal relationships that allowed for tolerance of the different points of view in the group…
“We gathered people from both sides – from Tamarod, the Brotherhood, and other parties and movements. But we weren’t able to come out of this meeting with concrete action… [Both sides] would not budge (bøje sig)… It came down to political differences”.
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