ElBaradei declares new era for Egypt as Mubarak puts police back on streets | The Australian
TOP dissident Mohamed ElBaradei has told angry protesters in Cairo that they were starting a new era after six days of a deadly revolt against embattled President Hosni Mubarak.
TOP dissident Mohamed ElBaradei has told angry protesters in Cairo that they were starting a new era after six days of a deadly revolt against embattled President Hosni Mubarak.
But despite the anticipation of change, Mubarak ordered police back on the streets after they had largely disappeared over the past two days following street battles with protesters.
He also extended a curfew in key cities.
Nobel peace laureate ElBaradei, mandated by Egyptian opposition groups including the banned Muslim Brotherhood to negotiate with Mubarak's regime, hailed "a new Egypt in which every Egyptian lives in freedom and dignity."
"We are on the right path, our strength is in our numbers," ElBaradei said in his first address to the protest epicentre on Cairo's Tahrir square. "I ask you to be patient, change is coming."
"We will sacrifice our soul and our blood for the nation," the angry crowd shouted. "The people want to topple the president."
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