Egypt’s Civilian Government Submits Offer to Resign
After three days of increasingly violent demonstrations, Egypt’s interim
civilian government submitted its resignation to the country’s ruling military
council on Monday, bowing to the demands of the protesters and marking a crisis
of legitimacy for the military-led government.
The step was reported by Egyptian television, and it remained to seen whether
the military would accept or reject the offer of the resignation, which followed
the most sustained and bloodiest challenge to military’s hold on power since the
fall of Hosni Mubarak as demonstrators clashed with security forces around
Tahrir Square and across the country. Egyptian troops had been heralded as
saviors when their generals ushered out President Mubarak on Feb. 11, but on
Sunday they led a new push to clear the square. The Health Ministry said Monday
that at least 23 people had been killed. Since Saturday, more than 1,500 people
had been wounded, the ministry said.
By Monday evening the crowd in Tahrir Square, the symbolic epicenter of the Arab
Spring uprisings, had swelled to a size even larger than the night before,
easily exceeding 10,000.
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