Thursday, 24 February 2011

Govt apologizes to people day before planned million-man demo


Arabic Edition
Thu, 24/02/2011 - 18:27

Egypt's caretaker government on Thursday apologized to the Egyptian people for what it referred to as "past mistakes."

In
a statement, the government said some of these mistakes had been
“sins,” but stressed that the current cabinet was not responsible for
them.
The
statement also pointed to the "difficulties" associated with retaining
the people's confidence, which, it admitted, the government had lost
years ago. It nevertheless vowed to combat official corruption.
Meanwhile,
leaders of Egypt's 25 January Revolution--which led to the ouster of
longstanding president Hosni Mubarak on 11 February--accused members of
the ruling party and Interior Ministry of deliberately promoting chaos
in the country in an effort to tarnish the revolution's image.
Revolutionaries
have called for a million-man demonstration in Cairo's Tahrir Square on
Friday to demand the removal of the current Ahmed Shafiq government,
which they regard as a continuation of the Mubarak regime.
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