5 years since Maspero, Egypt’s Copts denied permit to remember 27 dead

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Let us not forget that Egypt was a Christian country before the Muslims invaded.




5 years since Maspero, Egypt’s Copts denied permit to remember 27 dead
Published: Oct. 7, 2016
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Outside the Maspero TV building, where the violent incidents took place.
World Watch Monitor

Coptic organisations outside Egypt commemorate this weekend the 5th anniversary of an attack by the Egyptian Army against a peaceful Christian protest march, which resulted in 27 Copts killed and scores of others injured. Known as the "Maspero massacre" it mainly took place (on 9 Oct. 2011) outside the huge headquarters of the Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU), the Maspero building.



Plans this week by US-based Coptic Solidarity (CS) include a "Remembrance Day" in Washington DC for the Maspero victims, as well as for victims of attacks against Egyptian Christians dating back to 1971: including riots, church attacks across Egypt, and the ISIS slaughter of 21 men on a beach in Libya in 2015.

In Mississauga, Canada, another group of Copts will keep alive the memory of the dead with participants of their community in the Toronto metropolitan area.

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