Egyptian TV and press backed the armed forces, describing events as a "malicious terrorist attack" and publishing comment by political parties and prominent figures.
Five years after the Egyptian uprising, the role of the armed forces in shaping events is at once obvious and mysterious as it has been for the last 60.
When the armed forces state that "events that led to political violence should not be repeated in our country", they are evading their own responsibility and attempting to make all of us accomplices of their crimes.
Common causes of TBIs include car accidents, falls, sports injuries, incidents involving firearms, domestic abuse, blast injuries while serving in the armed forces, and similar events.
To South Korean conservatives, the continued promise that the United States would command their country's armed forces in the event of war symbolized Washington's commitment.
The question this raises is why armed forces need such "sacrosanct events".
Morale is terrible throughout all the branches of the armed forces, and in the event of war the army "will not fight".
Royal occasions, grossly expensive sporting events, the armed forces: all the bread and circuses by which the elite have always exerted control over hoi polloi.
That stoppage led within a week to the president's temporary removal from office, after 19 demonstrators died and the armed forces ceased to support him.The events of April underscored that if the president wished to cut short his political life, he had only to alienate oil workers and the armed forces, preferably simultaneously.
In an interview last month, Gen. Freddy Padilla de León, the commander of Colombia's armed forces, said preliminary investigations of the events were under way.
