"In a stark illustration of the divide that now separates Cairo's demonstrators from the Military Council, the Egyptian army yesterday erected a 2.5m-high breezeblock wall on Mohamed Mahmoud St, the road leading off Tahrir Square which has seen the worst of the violence that has claimed dozens of lives this week.
"Cairo has become Berlin," joked a protester, Ibrahim Abdul Ghani, as he looked at the wall, which blocks one of the main access routes to the Interior Ministry. Troops manning another main road leading to the ministry set up steel barriers and coils of barbed wire, suggesting the military is intent on defusing the prolonged street clashes that have threatened to derail elections.
But in a press conference yesterday members of the Military Council did little to calm the protesters, rejecting a key demand of those camped out in Tahrir Square by saying an immediate handover to civilian rule would represent a "betrayal" of the country."
"Cairo has become Berlin," joked a protester, Ibrahim Abdul Ghani, as he looked at the wall, which blocks one of the main access routes to the Interior Ministry. Troops manning another main road leading to the ministry set up steel barriers and coils of barbed wire, suggesting the military is intent on defusing the prolonged street clashes that have threatened to derail elections.
But in a press conference yesterday members of the Military Council did little to calm the protesters, rejecting a key demand of those camped out in Tahrir Square by saying an immediate handover to civilian rule would represent a "betrayal" of the country."
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