CAIRO - The worst thing about the deadly clashes between demonstrators and the military police over the past week is that Egyptian society has been widely divided into pro-revolution forces and traumatised citizens. The SCAF is at the heart of the problems the Egyptian nation has been witnessing since the outbreak of the January 25 revolution. The military police have been accused of using excessive force to disperse 'peaceful demonstrators'. The generals deny this, by saying that they were up against saboteurs, arsonists and outlaws, who torched public and private property. Taking into consideration the growing calls to escalate the confrontation in Majlis Wouzara (Cabinet) Street, the division in society should be promptly mended; if the festering wound doesn't heal properly and quickly, a nation marching down the road to democracy after 30 years of Hosni's Mubarak's dictatorship can expect more crises. It is curious that the most recent violence should erupt during the parliamentary elections. The SCAF has accused some political forces of trying to launch a counter -revolution by deliberately instigating instability and insecurity. The enemy of the revolution is said to include lobbyists of the former regime, attempting to sour the historical relationship between the people and the Army. "The Army will not let down the people, who entrusted it with the revolution," Major-General Adel Emara, an SCAF member, pledged in a press conference he organised to explain the violence, which raged in a street that is home to several official buildings, including Parliament and the Cabinet. The young demonstrators don't believe this, while it must be said that the support originally given by ordinary citizens to the revolution and its exponents is waning. Young protesters should reconsider the situation and, in collaboration with the SCAF, observe a truce to save the revolution. Without sincere co-operation and understanding between the Army and the young demonstrators, Egypt will be plunged into complete anarchy and the great revolution will be forgotten.
