Insight: From power to protest, Egypt's Brotherhood fights for life


  • World
  • Tuesday, 09 Jul 2013

Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shout slogans outside the at the Rabaa Adawiya square in Cairo July 8, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood is facing an old adversary in the fight of its life, but has few means to confront the Egyptian military that has swept it from power. Reduced to camping out on the Cairo streets, all it can do, it seems, is mourn its dead.

The deaths of 51 Brotherhood supporters killed when the army opened fire on them on Monday was the latest and bloodiest blow to a group reeling from President Mohamed Mursi's dramatic ouster from office at the hands of the generals.

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