Egyptian Chronicles: Do Not Blame Them

Of course you have heard the news that the Bedouins at Sinai kidnapped 25 policemen on the borders south of Rafah before setting them free.

And I do not have to bet that tomorrow all the regime media will come out and say that they are traitors but those Bedouins are not traitors , they just can’t take it any more from the Police ill treatment in Sinai. Since the bombings in Sinai from couple of years the Egyptian police has adopted its ill treatment to the people in the valley to the people of Sinai. I said it before the great people of Sinai are not like the the people of valley , they won’t sit and watch their women and children being humiliated by the police forces , they are tribesmen and even if they are not tribesmen ,they should not be treated with that way , they should be treated just like anyone of us with dignity !!

The Bedouins did not only kidnap the officers but they also formed a siege around the security points near Rafah,yes the last 48 hours were rocking and we in the valley did not know !!

For your information the Bedouins had demands in order to release those officers and soldiers:

1- To send the police officers who killed and injured last Monday two tribesmen to the court.

2- To release a Bedouin woman that had been detained for two month now for no charge except that her husband is wanted !!

I think what they demand is fair ,what they demand is justice.

Of course the interior ministry released an official statement that did not include the reasons of the uprising and the demands of the Bedouins.

The tribesmen requested several times that the Police would be replaced with Army , already they feel more comfortable with the army men and I remember that last year when they were very angry from the regime , the Military intelligence officers went and calmed them down and I am sure the M.I officers played an important in releasing those 25 policemen this time too !! “Do not you notice that the army always comes to rescue and saves the day !!”

I know that according the Camp David accords we can’t put an army officer in Sinai despite I think that Camp David accords were only for 20 years and that the Israelis got a whole arsenal on our borders.

And if we can’t really put an army man there despite we can if we want , why does not the Police understand that the people of Sinai are still proud of their dignity !!??

Again I will say it ,Israel tried to win the tribes to their side but most of the tribes refused in the 6 years of its invasion to Sinai and they stuck to their mother country Egypt and now our regime is doing its best to lose them and to turn them in to enemies.

Sinai is not less than the South Sudan which Mubarak has visited yesterday , I really wish that he sits with the tribesmen chiefs just like he sits with Olmert, it will mean so much for them.

By the way I would like to share with this very important report about the conditions of our people in Sinai by Jack Shenker.