report that El Baradei resigns as Vice President

Just saw this on Twitter. It’s the right move, though he’s taking heated criticism from people on Twitter who ask why he waited for three massacres before resigning. Anyone who doesn’t resign from the government now will be on board with a possibly open-ended hardcore approach.

Heba Morayef from Human Rights Watch tweets as follows:

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Baradei’s resignation statement says that he was against a forcible dispersal of the sit-in& believed it cd have been avoided.

This is a ghastly operation, with numerous photos depicting burned bodies, brains spilled from heads, and other such horrors. I’d have thought they would use a “tear gas first” approach, but many witnesses say they came in firing, with snipers at work from the outset.

It’s hard to imagine Egyptians doing this to Egyptians, even though there has been some lead-up to today.