Cairo (AP) - protesters burned cars and barricaded with the barbed wire in a central square in Cairo, demanding the resignation of the Chief of the army after troops violently dispersed a protest the day the day a killing and injuring 71.
Hundreds of soldiers beat demonstrators with clubs and fired them in the air in the raid before dawn in Central Cairo's Tahrir square in a sign tensions between the decision of the military Egypt and the demonstrators.
Armed with sticks and other makeshift weapons, protesters promised no step to leave until the Minister of defence, the head of State holds, has resigned.
Soldiers swept into the square around 3 o'clock in the morning and wading in a tent camp in the centre where the demonstrators formed a human cordon to protect several army officers who had joined their demonstration despite their superiors.
Ali Mustafa, an auto mechanic who was pointing tries to guard the "free soldiers", said he saw the armed stab one of the officers with his bayonet, a section of roadway stained with blood under a small pile of refuse and food remnants.
Another demonstrator was killed by a bullet, said Ahmed Gamal, who was there for the night. He added that he saw at least two other seriously injured by live bullets. The death could not be confirmed.
Television cited State Department of health saying that a person was killed and 71 wounded.
The troops dragged an unknown number of demonstrators away, put them in trucks of the police, eyewitnesses said.
The army issued a statement later blame "outlaw" of rioting and violating the curfew for 2 hours of the morning at 5 a.m. on the morning of the country and stated that no one was hurt or arrested.
He said: "the armed forces emphasize that they will tolerate any acts of riots or any act which interferes with the interest of the country and the people,".
A black smoke increased in the sky as the Sun came to Cairo after three vehicles, including two troops carriers, were burned.
The square was filled shattered glass, stones and debris of fighting, in a scene reminiscent of the protests in January that brought down the regime of Hosni Mubarak. The storefront of a KFC in square glass was was also broken.
"We are staging a sit-in until that Marshal is prosecuted," said Anas Esmat, a student of 22 years in the square as demonstrators dragged debris and barbed wire to seal off the streets leading to the place.
"People want the collapse of the Marshal," chanted demonstrators, in a variation on the song that became famous throughout the Middle East with demonstrations calling for regime change. "Tantawi is Mubarak and Mubarak Tantawi," was another song, equating expressly Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, the Minister of defence, with the President who appointed him once.
The clashes came hours after hundreds of thousands massed in place Tahrir Friday in one of the largest protests for weeks, demanding that ousted military prosecution President Hosni Mubarak and his family for alleged corruption.
The rally was a show of growing impatience and mistrust Egyptians much feel toward the military, who took over when Mubarak was forced from his duties on 11 February. Some protesters accuse the military direction of protection Mubarak - a former military man himself - and more broadly, many are not clear about the intentions of the army in the transition of the country.
More than in the previous demonstrations, songs and banners Friday directly criticize the Supreme Council of the army of the Armed Forces and Tantawi, a former loyalist Mubarak.
A number of uniformed military officers joined the demonstrators, some of them accusing the Supreme Council of the corruption in the speech to the crowd. After the dark of night, hundreds of demonstrators remained on the square, with the intention of camp with officers.
Before the assault before dawn, military police attempted to repeatedly move and hold the officers but are repulsed by the demonstrators. At one point, the protesters pushed and shoved a general army, tear his cap from his head.
After the attack in the early hours of the morning, the scene is chaotic. Families camped in tent protest searched for children which is lost in the chaos. Outside, demonstrators had with soldiers on the side streets, singing, "Maréchal, tell your soldiers, we aren't leaving.".
Near the famous Egyptian Museum, which overlooks the square, demonstrators who tried to flee were blocked by soldiers, who hit them and them thrown to the ground before by dragging farther.
"I saw hold them a bouquet at the Museum." They have beaten some poorly, "said one protester, Loai Naggati.
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