Attenti alla sicurezza

Ricevo dal Cairo, e volentieri pubblico, un appello della professoressa Leyla Soueif sul tentativo, per la Sicurezza Centrale egiziana, di riprendere il controllo dell'ordine pubblico. Leyla Soueif insegna all'università del Cairo, è un'attivista da decenni, moglie di Ahmed Seif, il direttore dello Hisham Mubarak Center arrestato e poi rilasciato tra il 4 e il 5 febbraio. Nonché madre, orgogliosa, di due blogger, alaa e monasosh. Una famiglia di intellettuali, che si passa il testimone tra le generazioni. La foto è dall'album su Flickr di Hossam el Hamalawy

Redeploying the Central Security Forces is an attempt to get round the Army's decision not to act against the Egyptian revolution

The news Bulletin on Channel 1 on Egyptian State TV yesterday (7 February) showed the new Minister of the Interior inspecting the barracks of the Central Security Forces and putting in place a strategy to redeploy them.

We should never forget that the main strike force of Central Security is conscript soldiers.

We demand of the Army leadership that they do not allow the exploitation of their conscripts in suppressing the revolution.

We demand that the Army retrieve its conscripts from the Ministry of the Interior immediately and redistribute them among Army units if there is need, or to end their conscription and return them to their normal lives among their families.

The legitimacy of conscription is that it provides a resource for the Army to use in defence of the borders and independence of the country. Using conscription to force the poor to suppress their fellow-citizens is an insult to the Army and to the nation. We cannot permit it to continue.

Layla Soueif

Dept of Mathematics

Cairo University

8 February 2011