Any infringement upon National Unity will be decisively faced
Egypt, Politics, 1/18/2000

President Hosni Mubarak said that there will be no covering for wrongdoers, assuring that whoever breaks the law, impairs the national unity or tries to do harm to the nations fabric will be dealt with decisiveness. He reminded that the Egyptian nation has never before seen fanaticism or bigotry.

The statement was made by the President during his second ministerial meeting with the Prime Minister and a number of Ministers on the developments of the situation in kusheh, said Minister of Information Safwat Al Sharif, who attended the meeting.

President Mubarak reviewed during the meeting the measures the government is taking for paying compensations for those who were wronged or have their property, shops or houses looted, damaged or burnt during the kusheh incidents, which involved Muslims and Copts.

The incidents took place at the beginning of the year in a village of the governorate of sohag, lying 440km south of Cairo.

President Mubarak directed that damages be paid, the kusheh village reconstructed and eliminating for good the causes of tension, the Minister of Information said.

The President told the meeting that the Egyptian people have the first and last right, before others, to know the truth of the incidents in the kusheh, the Minister told reporters.

President Mubarak, he added, underlined the exigency for sustaining the security presence, effecting absolute transparency and the neutrality by the investigation quarters and announcing the facts by and by.

The incidents left around 20 dead and 44 people injured among a little over 58,000 people of the village. more than a score of buildings and several vehicles were torched.

Rioting in the village, which suffers from a high illiteracy plaguing over 27,000 villagers, was triggered by some criminals and troublemakers who attempted to export earlier business disagreements between some villagers in El-kusheh.

The Minister of Information further told reporter that the minister of justice, who attended the meeting, said that the parquet will complete the relevant investigations and announcing the facts in a weeks time.

The Minister of Interior, who was also in the meeting, noted the factors of stability in the small upper Egyptian village that saw Muslim-Copts clashes on Dec 31.

Prime Minister Atef Ebeid, who attended the meeting as well, had referred to a report he received several days ago notifying that the situation was contained and calm prevailed in kusheh.

The President, reviewing the results of the work of the popular committee which involves clerics, popular and executive officials, members from the Peoples Assembly and the Shura Council, underscored the need for the Committee to continue its role in creating the appropriate climate to rout out the causes of tension

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