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### Viewing cable 10CAIRO233, A/S POSNER ENGAGES WITH GOE, ACTIVISTS ON NAGA HAMADI

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10CAIRO233 | 2010-02-23 09:47 | 2011-02-16 21:00 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Cairo

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    DE RUEHEG #0233/01 0540947
    ZNY CCCCC ZZH
    R 230947Z FEB 10
    FM AMEMBASSY CAIRO
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 0359
    INFO ARAB ISRAELI COLLECTIVE
    RHEHNSC/WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 CAIRO 000233

    SIPDIS
    FOR DRL AND NEA

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 2035/02/23
    TAGS: PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF SOCI EG
    SUBJECT: A/S POSNER ENGAGES WITH GOE, ACTIVISTS ON NAGA HAMADI
    KILLINGS

    REF: 10 CAIRO 163; 10 CAIRO 153; 10 CAIRO 141; 10 CAIRO 59
    09 CAIRO 1556

    CLASSIFIED BY: Margaret Scobey, Ambassador, State; REASON: 1.4(B),
    (D)

    ¶1. KEY POINTS

    -- (C) In January 12-14 meetings, A/S Posner urged the GOE to hold
    accountable those responsible for the January 6 Naga Hamadi
    sectarian killings, and to issue additional statements of
    condemnation.

    -- (C) Senior Interior Ministry and MFA officials said the
    perpetrators would be tried and convicted.  They attributed the
    attacks to Upper Egypt's culture of revenge killings for "honor
    crimes," such as a November 2009 rape of a Christian girl by a
    Muslim man.

    -- (C) The Legislative Affairs Minister feared a Unified Places of
    Worship law could exacerbate sectarian tensions.  The Minister of
    Population and Families called for educational reform to promote
    religious tolerance.

    -- (C) Activists criticized the GOE for not preventing the attacks,
    and for issuing insufficient condemnation.

    ¶2. (C) A/S Posner urged GOE officials to hold accountable those
    responsible for the January 6 sectarian killings in order to break
    the cycle of sectarian violence (ref D).  He stressed the
    importance of credible prosecutions, and urged the GOE to issue
    additional public statements condemning the attacks.

    -------------------------------------

    MOI and MFA Stress "Vendetta Culture"

    -------------------------------------

    ¶3. (C) Interior Ministry State Security Director Rahman said
    residents of Upper Egypt are "limited in their culture and
    education," and often react violently to what they perceive as
    "honor crimes," such as the November rape of a Christian girl by a
    Muslim man in the Upper Egyptian town of Farshoot.  He asserted
    that in response to "honor crimes," there are often attacks in
    Upper Egypt, but the violence only attracts attention when Muslims
    target Christians.  He said that feuds and vendettas between
    families can continue for generations.

    ¶4. (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Wafaa Bassim said that Upper
    Egyptians maintain a tradition of revenge killings, and that the
    January 6 shootings were a response to the Farshoot rape.  She said
    the GOE would try and convict the Naga Hamadi perpetrators.  Deputy
    Assistant Foreign Minister for Human Rights Wael Aboulmagd said
    that the People's Assembly and the quasi-governmental National
    Council for Human Rights would send fact-finding missions to Naga
    Hamadi.

    --------------------------------------------- ---------

    Minister Shehab Pessimistic about Legislative Solution

    --------------------------------------------- ---------

    ¶5. (C) Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Shehab said the GOE needs
    to punish the perpetrators.  He contended that the Interior

    CAIRO 00000233  002 OF 002

    Ministry is conducting a serious investigation.  Shehab said that
    Egyptian Muslims and Copts have lived together for many years, and
    he hoped that peaceful coexistence would resume.

    ¶6. (C) Minister Shehab said that a Unified Places of Worship Law
    would not be a "magic solution" to sectarian tensions.  Shehab
    asserted that although he personally favors passing such a law, it
    would have a negative effect on Muslim-Christian relations.  He
    contended that Christians would protest any GOE rejections of
    church building requests, and Muslims would react badly to GOE
    approvals.  Shehab opined that President Mubarak's immediate
    approval of four to five church building requests would send "the
    right signal" following the Naga Hamadi killings.

    -----------------------------------------

    Minister Khattab: Education is the Answer

    -----------------------------------------

    ¶7. (C) Minister of Population and Families Mushira Khattab
    underscored that civic education in schools stressing Egyptian
    identity over religious faith is needed to combat hate speech and
    intolerance.  She noted her ministry plans to send the Prime
    Minister such an education proposal, as the issue affects families.
    Khattab said the GOE has previously promoted reconciliation, and
    then assured the public that "everything is ok."  She called for
    consistent action to promote religious tolerance.  Regarding
    identification documents, she opined that the GOE should allow
    identification documents for Bahai'is to state "Baha'i" in the
    religion field, or order dashes in this field for all Egyptians.
    (Note:  Per ref E, following a January 2008 court decision, the GOE
    has begun issuing identity documents for Bahai'is with a dash in
    the religion field.  Previously, the GOE would only issue documents
    stating the bearer's identity as Muslim, Christian or Jewish.  End
    note.)

    -----------------------

    Civil Society Reactions

    -----------------------

    ¶8. (C) Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights Executive Director
    Hossam Bahgat said the GOE failed to prevent a predictable attack.
    He asserted that the GOE should have been aware of rising sectarian
    tensions in the Naga Hamadi area over the previous two months.  He
    attributed sectarian violence to a culture of impunity resulting
    from a lack of convictions in recent years.  Bahgat called for
    improvements in the educational system to promote a culture of
    tolerance.

    ¶9. (C) Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies Director-General
    Bahey Al-Din Hassan said he expects "exponentially increasing"
    sectarian violence as the GOE did not hold anyone accountable for
    violence against Copts in 2009.  He criticized the GOE for not
    acknowledging the killings as sectarian.  Afro-Egyptian Human
    Rights Organization Director Engi Haddad blamed the GOE for not
    issuing sufficiently strong statements in response to the killings,
    and asserted the killings illustrated the GOE's inability to
    protect its citizens.

    ¶10. (U) A/S Posner cleared this message.
    SCOBEY

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