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Sunday, 16 October 2011

Egypt's reform leader criticizes ruling council


CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's top reform leader has criticized the ruling military council as having too much power but no experience governing.

Mohamed ElBaradei spoke to reporters on Sunday, a week after more than 20 members of Egypt's Christian minority were killed when the military broke up their protest in Cairo with force. It was the worst bloodshed since Hosni Mubarak's ouster in February.

"We have a (military) council with powers but no experience, and we have a government with no powers but with experience," ElBaradei told a news conference. He urged the military rulers to form an alternative government with much more authority.

ElBaradei also criticizes Egyptian state TV for "lies" and "instigation" in the violence.

- AP
FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 10, 2011 file photo, an Egyptian relative of one of the Copts killed during clashes with the Egyptian army late Sunday, holds a cross as others chant angry slogans during a gathering outside the morgue of the Copts hospital in Cairo, Egypt. An army crackdown on a protest that killed more than 20 Christians has not only stunned Egyptians, it has left them with deeply torn feelings towards the force seen as the protector of the nation. Even supporters of the ruling military are grappling with the question of how the bloodshed could have happened. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

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