Avant les grandes manifestations d’aujourd’hui en Egypte, l’arm\u00e9e \u00e9gyptienne avait pris position dans la soir\u00e9e d’hier, plus sur ses principes d’action, doit-on dire, que dans les rues du Caire o\u00f9 elle se trouve d\u00e9j\u00e0 depuis quatre jours L’arm\u00e9e avait clairement annonc\u00e9 son intention de ne pas intervenir contre les manifestations populaires, jugeant par ailleurs l\u00e9gitimes les revendications \u00e9galement populaires. L’arm\u00e9e \u00e9gyptienne s’est ainsi clairement signal\u00e9e comme la garante et la protectrice de la volont\u00e9 populaire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tDans The Independent<\/em> du 1er f\u00e9vrier 2011<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abIn what could prove a critical moment in Egypt’s popular uprising against Hosni Mubarak, the country’s army last night told demonstrators that their demands were legitimate and that troops would not resort to the use of force against our great people.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbOn the eve of a planned demonstration that could bring as many as a million protesters to the streets, the army’s statement, carried on state television, appeared to mark a significant blow to Mr Mubarak’s hopes of clinging to power. The presence of the army in the streets is for your sake and to ensure your safety and wellbeing, the statement said. Your armed forces, who… are keen to assume their responsibility in protecting the nation and its citizens, affirm that freedom of expression through peaceful means is guaranteed to everybody<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbDespite the heavy army presence in<\/em> [Tahrir Square in central Cairo<\/em>] and at nearby intersections and with the exception of a tense incident in the late morning when troops started firing in the air relations between troops and demonstrators throughout the daylight hours were calm and even cordial compared with the crowd’s universal contempt for police who tried to quell the protests with lethal brutality last week.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbMetres from the tanks in the northwest corner of the square as a military helicopter repeatedly circled low above the crowd, the secondary school English teacher Ahmed Mutawa, 45, declared: We like the army very much. The army is us, it is Egypt, it is my students.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tCette situation contraste singuli\u00e8rement avec les analyses couramment admises dans les milieux experts occidentaux, analyses bas\u00e9es essentiellement sur les faveurs (y compris les aides habituelles US) que les divers vieux dictateurs arabes, d\u00e9mocrates favoris des milieux politiques occidentaux, dispensent ou font parvenir \u00e0 leurs forces arm\u00e9es. Comme d’habitude, on retrouve le d\u00e9calage entre les donn\u00e9es bureaucratiques du Syst\u00e8me et les r\u00e9alit\u00e9s du monde ext\u00e9rieur.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tVoir notamment, dans Ouverture libre<\/em> du 31 janvier 2011<\/a>, les extraits de l’article du \t\u00abBut what’s clear is that the odds of the Egyptian military joining in a popular revolt are far more unlikely in Egypt than they were, in hindsight, in Tunisia<\/em> [] Despite the growing pressure from their people, however, the Arab world’s dictators will find it difficult to break their addiction to armed rule, says Kristina Kausch, a researcher at the Spanish-based FRIDE think-tank who has worked here in Tunisia since 2004. In the other Arab autocracies, the regime and the military live off each other, Kausch told me. They don’t need the Tunisia lesson. For the other regimes, keeping the militaries happy has been a central pillar of survival.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n dedefensa.org<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nous sommes l’arm\u00e9e de notre grand peuple ! Avant les grandes manifestations d’aujourd’hui en Egypte, l’arm\u00e9e \u00e9gyptienne avait pris position dans la soir\u00e9e d’hier, plus sur ses principes d’action, doit-on dire, que dans les rues du Caire o\u00f9 elle se trouve d\u00e9j\u00e0 depuis quatre jours L’arm\u00e9e avait clairement annonc\u00e9 son intention de ne pas intervenir… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2894,10780,9550,5656,10778],"class_list":["post-72716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ouverture-libre","tag-armee","tag-dictateurs","tag-egypte","tag-experts","tag-fidelite"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}