
Above: Sally Magdy Zahran, 23, producer and voice artist, Tahrir (Liberation) Square: “Hit in the back of the head with a bat,
went home to sleep and never woke up.”
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Above: Balel Salem, 10, Cairo: “Killed by police forces.”
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Above: Saif-Allah Mustafa Musa, 16, Cairo: “Shot at Abbas al-Aqad Street on January 28; he was not part of the demonstrations
but forces thought he was.”
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But if there was a single pair of photos that some feel explains better than any other the rage that drove Mubarak from power, I think it must have been these:

Khaled Said, as he appeared before he went to a cyber café to be murdered by the police.
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Above is Khaled Said, a 28-year-old blogger who exposed the Mubarak regime’s essential inhumanity, before the regime’s security forces arrested and fatally beat him. I will not post on this page the image of Said after the secret police had finished with him; if you want to see it, click here — but be forewarned: To look upon it is to feel within yourself the torrents of rage that swept away a government.
I call these men, women (and, terrible to say, children) “our” dead because they have died, wittingly or not, in our cause. We, too, must soon take up this gauntlet; soon this cannibalistic global kleptoplutocracy must yield to human values and fundamental morality. One nation at a time, and yet in sum so fast that the elite can never again regain its balance, nor yet think to retake the initiative, we must be shed of this metanational pathocracy.
