A member of the Algerian opposition movement Rashad has warned that Egypt is heading down a similar path which led to Algeria’s war in the 1990s which resulted in the death and deportation of hundreds of thousands of people.
Mohamed Al-Arabi Zitout, who is also a former Algerian diplomat, added that the current regional and international circumstances will eventually turn in the Egyptian revolution’s favour even if a high price has to be paid first.
He noted that some Egyptians are giving in and staying silent, some are fleeing the country and others are taking up arms against the government, which could result in the interference of foreign and regional powers in the country’s affairs.
According to Zitout, this is reminiscent of the Algerian model with the cycle of violence leading regional and international intelligence bodies to intervene and turn the war into a dirty war.
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