Coming up on the anniversary of the liveliest expression of popular dissatisfaction with the Mubarak regime in recent memory–the March 2003 demos–it seems like the moment to wheel out some old photos. I’ve scanned a (rathered battered) roll of negatives, and strung them together with some captions here.
I think the moral of the story is this: if there’s a dozen guys dressed up like little Darth Vaders chasing you, run like hell.
[…] Mathew uploaded to his flickr account some pictures he took of the violence that engulfed downtown Cairo on 21 March 2003, following the outbreak of the US-led war on Iraq. More than 40,000 took control of downtown, but the scene went down into chaos with the severe police brutality against demonstrators. […]