Wira Davies
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14 appearances
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first heard Jul 2013
last heard Jul 2013
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I think that's a gross exaggeration.
That's rubbish, really.
It doesn't feel any bigger than it did back in 2011 when we had the revolution.
About half a million people can fit into Tarahir Square.
So it's impossible to say when there's a big protest in Tarahir Square and it's full that there are millions of people there.
You simply can't fit them into Tarahir Square.
I think nationwide there were millions of people this time protesting against the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, but nothing like the 30 or 40 million people that some people quoted.
That's 45% of the population.
That's impossible because there are too many young people in Egypt for those maths to work anyway.
It is a numbers game because both sides are trying to claim they have popular support.
What we saw last week was a military coup.
There's no two ways about it.
And therefore the only justification for that, logically, is that this was a popularly backed military coup.
And so it's in the interest of the people who supported the overthrow of the president to say that they had these millions of people supporting them.
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