Regimes who kick historical precedent to the curb side are destined to be kicked by that very giant to the same curb. Two years ago, when Abdel Fatah El Sisi decided, along with a cadre of hawkish aides, to sidestep international law and political rational to decimate an encampment in Cairo, he made such an error. Two years on, and Egyptians, many unbeknownst to them, are paying the price. More menacingly than simply being the bloodiest massacre in modern Egyptian history, with nearly 1000 perishing, Rabaa has paved the way for a systematic denudation of the rule of law in Sisi’s Egypt. In this jungle, masquerading as a modern state, the gun rules: those possessing it govern and those holding the gavel aid in the carnage. The sit-in raged throughout the Cairo heat, since shortly after the military takeover in July 2013 had arrested then president Mohamed Morsi and many others in his Islamist ruling circle. With the summer’s oppressive heat, pressure also mounted on the De Facto ruler, Sisi, to bring an end to a sit-in that had disrupted the lives of local Nasr City residents among accusations that…
