Video: Rabaa anniversary clashes in Cairo
Egypt's riot police forces used teargas and fired into air on Thursday to disperse mass rallies of pro-Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators who had taken to the streets of Cairo to mark the anniversary of the Rabaa camp massacre.
Many shouted slogans against the current authorities and held up Brotherhood flags or posters. At least six protesters and one police officer were killed in the clashes nationwide, Turkish Anadolu Agency reported. The government has so far only confirmed four deaths.
Egyptian authorities violently dispersed the Muslim Brotherhoods' "Rabaa al-Adawyya" camp in August 2013 as Egypt’s police forces, backed by army personnel, broke up the mass sit in. According to Human Rights Watch, more than 800 people were killed at Rabaa Square alone. A total of more than 1,100 died across Egypt on 14 August 2013 in the ensuing crackdown, making the day the bloodiest since the overthrow of former strongman Hosni Mubarak in January 2011.
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