Hundreds if not over a Thousand Died in the Square

"The government’s systematic effort to obscure what took place, beginning with sealing off the square the next day, made it difficult to come up with an accurate death toll."

"A meticulous investigation, found that at least 817 and likely well over 1,000 people were killed in the Square."

"One protester recalled carrying the dead, piles of them. “We found limbs that were totally crushed. There were dead people with no arms, obviously a tank ran over them. Imagine you are carrying piles of bodies, it is something you can’t imagine. Even the bodies that you are carrying, you carry an arm of a person, alongside the leg of another person.”

"A student from the University recounted that the ground was a “sea of blood” and how she watched the bleeding protesters in horror, “knowing that I was not able to do anything besides watch them die.”

Are the above horrific descriptions about Tiananmen Square in Beijing (where no massacre actually occurred)? No, they describe what occurred one year ago today at Rab’a Square in Cairo, Egypt.

Do you think any mention of this anniversary will be made in the corporate media?

Do you think there will be a drumbeat of accusations hurled against the Egyptian government for its massacre of unarmed civilians?

Do you think that year after year for 25 years the massacre at Rab'a Square will be commemorated on August 14th with silent vigils and denunciations of the Cairo regime?

Do you think that the Western media and the Egyptian government might want to erase this massacre from our collective memory?

Do you think that we actually have a "free press" in the West that isn't totally controlled and manipulated by a Media-Industrial Complex fed by the governments they support?

Do you think that we in the West value some lives more than others and use the death of some and not others for solely political purposes without any real concern for the human toll taken?

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/14/us-still-funding-repression/