(1 Aug 2011) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of protesters in Tahrir Square
2. Protesters in square UPSOUND: chanting
3. Protesters chanting
4. Wide of Tahrir Square being stormed by Egyptian troops and police, with tents being dismantled
5. Various wide pans of protesters running away from police
6. Wide of army vehicles stationary in square
7. Wide pan of army vehicles driving through square
8. Various of group of police officers blocking road leading to square
9. Wide of area in square where tents have been dismantled
10. Egyptian Army armoured personnel carrier (APC) in Tahrir Square, pan to passing traffic
11. Soldiers watching passing traffic
12. Various of protesters being arrested, placed in APC
13. Soldiers and police standing guard, pan to debris left after destruction of makeshift camp
14. Soldiers standing in line at edge of road, pan to passing traffic
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sharif Azir, Assistant Secretary, Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights:
"The Army has decided to end the protest and open the square by force. They''ve destroyed tents and arrested some protesters. We''ve tried to release them from army vehicles, but the vehicles moved. We are trying to make a list of the protesters who got arrested."
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tamer Mohammad, Protester:
"We''ve decided to leave the square, but the army attacked and beat us. If they had asked us peacefully, we would have left the square."
17. Soldiers marching
18. Soldier walking through debris of tents
19. Officer ordering protester to leave the square
20. Wide of square
STORYLINE:
Egyptian troops clashed on Monday with a small group of protesters camping out in Cairo''s Tahrir Square to press demands for faster change and justice for demonstrators killed in the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
The clashes broke out after troops dismantled the protesters'' tents on the square''s median, witnesses said.
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Troops backed by armoured vehicles and hundreds of riot police used clubs to clear the square after protesters ignored pleas over loudspeakers to leave.
Military police fired shots in the air and protesters hurled rocks.
The operation brought an end to nearly a month of renewed daily protests in the central square that was the birthplace of the 18-day uprising that overthrew Mubarak in February.
Several hundred demonstrators had rebuilt the round-the-clock protest camp there on 8 July to renew the pressure on Egypt''s transitional military rulers to swiftly bring Mubarak and other members of his regime to trial.
After the army''s clearing operation, vehicle traffic instantly returned to the busy interchange in the heart of downtown Cairo for the first time in weeks.
Egypt''s activists, many of whom are suspicious of the ruling military council''s pledges to bring genuine reforms, are demanding Mubarak loyalists be weeded out from key state institutions like the judiciary, police and civil service.
Mubarak''s trial on charges he ordered the killing of protesters in the crackdown earlier this year is scheduled to start in Cairo on Wednesday.
Seeing him and other members of his regime brought to public trial is a key demand of the protesters.
Monday''s clashes came after a small group of protesters decided to continue the sit-in at Tahrir Square even though most groups decided to end it to mark the start this week of the holy month of Ramadan, when devout Muslims refrain from food, drink, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk.
After the confrontations, the square was covered with the personal belongings of the protesters and torn canvas from the tents.
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