Do Up There "Bloody Friday"

Learning from the experience of a rally on Thursday (01/27/2011), Egyptian security forces increase the supply of power to deal with larger numbers of protesters on Friday (01/28/2011), information from AP and AFP news shows, demonstrations reportedly widespread because the call to take to the streets that had spread through the internet.

Earlier, the Egyptian government tried to block social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, which is used to spread invitation demonstrating. Not only block the internet, 3G services and short message on a cell phone was compromised.
In addition to blocking of communications of protesters, reported a number of arrests have occurred. Not only that, anti-terrorism special forces are also deployed in several locations in Cairo straregis, including at Tahrir Square where previous rallies were held.

Egyptian Interior Minister even threatened the government would take stern action against the protesters. The Egyptian government considers rallied violate applicable law. If clashes occur, many people hoped that the incident did not become "Bloody Friday" aka the increasing number of casualties during the incident.

Dialogue

Meanwhile, the National Democratic Party (NDP) in power expressed readiness to dialogue with the protesters. "NDP is ready to dialogue with protesters and a legal political party. However, democracy has a system that must be adhered to. Minorities can not impose the will of the majority," said NDP Secretary General Safwat el-Sharif.

On the other hand, some sources said the government's chief security staff to President Hosni Mubarak promised to remedy the situation. Since the protests erupted on Tuesday (26/01/2011), President Hosni Mubarak (82) has not been seen in public.

Protest was aimed against Hosni Mubarak who has ruled for 30 years. Egyptian opposition groups think the government is not doing enough to face a food crisis, skyrocketing unemployment, and corruption.

Opposition figures who also Nobel laureate Mohamed el-Baradei said to have arrived in Cairo to join the protesters against the government. Rally inspired by a similar movement in Tunisia is already leaving seven people dead.