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Felipe Trueba / EPA
Protesters carry a tired comrade over their heads Tuesday in Tahrir Square in Cairo. Click the photo for a slideshow of new images from Egypt.
Vice President Omar Suleiman's announcement of constitutional and electoral reforms doesn't appear to be assuaging the hundreds of thousands of Egyptians packing Tahrir Square today in what reporters on the scene are calling the biggest demonstration since the protests began Jan. 25.
An Al Jazeera correspondent reported that "the vice president came out about 10:30 this morning and said the president had signed a decree allowing for constitutional amendments. ... But I don’t think it worked well. I don’t think anyone here has bothered listening to that yet. The call here is for an end to the regime of the past 30 years and to make sure they will not return once it’s over."
There are calls for another million man march on Friday; they do not want those that died in the first week to be forgotten. They already have huge posters of those killed in those clashes — and they are planning some kind of memorial service to mark those who have fallen.
They want to keep Tahrir Square as a reminder of the very serious actions that have happened here, and discourage people from just coming down to sightsee and just walk around for a few hours.
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The Egyptian people MUST continue with their protests until both mubarak and torture specialist are GONE. otherwise there will not be any meaningful change for Egypt. Egypt needs a radical change NOW.
long live freedom and justice.
Yes . Keep up the struggle. Those who have died for freedom should not be forgotten. We United States citizens are all Eygptians. We stand with you solidarity. You inspire us while reminding us what our founding founders along colonial patriots started our own revolution for a new political order . The freedom loving Eyptians are the new patriots . We stand with you in solidarity.
The opposition is not foolish to accept Suleiman, who is called in the Arab world "The CIA man in Cairo" (Aljazeera, Feb. 8, 2011). If anything, Suleiman resembles Shapour Bahtiar, whom the late Shah Reza Pahlevi had appointed Prime Minister in 1979 to stave off the Iranian Revolution. Suleiman is loved by Mubarak, the U.S., and Israel, but that also make him a curse for the Egyptians. I don't think the protesters will accept anything from him because they know that he was appointed to save Mubarak's job, and to make sure Egypt stays in the U.S. and Israeli sphere of influence. And that is contrary to the goals of the Egyptian Revolution. Nikos Retsos, retired professor