Dois exemplos poderosos da contestação a Mubarak, nas ruas do Egipto

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São imagens absolutamente poderosas, estas. Foram captadas pela equipa da Aljazeera no Cairo, em condições de reportagem arriscadíssimas. Recorde-se que o regime proibiu a estação de operar no país e que esta continua a emitir porque os seus repórteres arriscam diluir-se na multidão com câmaras não identificadas.
Igualmente impressionante: este relato publicado na crónica de Nicholas Kristof, que está no terreno pelo The New York Times.

I backed into Amr’s wheelchair. It turned out that Amr had lost his legs many years ago in a train accident, but he rolled his wheelchair into Tahrir Square to show support for democracy, hurling rocks back at the mobs that President Hosni Mubarak apparently sent to besiege the square.
Amr (I’m not using some last names to reduce the risks to people I quote) was being treated for a wound from a flying rock. I asked him as politely as I could what a double-amputee in a wheelchair was doing in a pitched battle involving Molotov cocktails, clubs, machetes, bricks and straight razors.
“I still have my hands,” he said firmly. “God willing, I will keep fighting.”

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