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Al Jazeera
Politics
Linah Alsaafin

‘I saw many bodies that day’: Protester recounts Rabaa massacre 10 years on

The image of a four-fingered salute became a symbol of the resistance to the coup against President Mohamed Morsi, a play on words as the Arabic word 'Rabaa' also means 'four' [File: Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters]

It has been 10 years since hundreds of protesters were killed in Egypt’s Rabaa al-Adawiya Square, the biggest massacre in the country’s modern history. But for Amr Hashad, the memories will forever remain imprinted on his mind.

For weeks, tens of thousands of people had staged a mass peaceful sit-in at the square in Cairo, demonstrating against the military coup that had deposed Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi.

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