Date of source: Monday, March 6, 2000
Several faxes signed "harmed inhabitants of Dar Al-Salaam" and the merchants whose shops were destroyed in the communal riots in the Al-Kosheh area at the beginning of the year have been sent to the Egyptian president and prime minister asking for financial help. An example of such a fax is given...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 7, 2000
The government did not keep its promise of paying compensations to the people harmed in the incidents of Al-Kosheh. ... A large number of the merchants and shopkeepers whose shops were burned during the incidents complained that the officials at Sohag governorate were procrastinating over making...
Date of source: Sunday, March 5, 2000
Although the ministerial committee that was formed by General Mustafa Abdel-Qader, Minister for Local Development, was set up to follow-up the situation in Al-Kosheh closely after the occurrence of the incidents, in order to take the necessary measures for removing the remains of the damage, all...
Date of source: Sunday, March 5, 2000
... We have mentioned before that some of the harmed families have missed the date of filing reports to the investigation authorities, either because they did not know of the date, or because they lived far away at the ends of the village, or because of fear...
Date of source: Sunday, March 5, 2000
In spite of the efforts of the reconciliation committees that were formed after the incidents of Al-Koshh, which aimed to break down the barriers left after the incidents, they have failed. ... The psychological barrier is present, the fears and doubts are still there, and the wounds have not...
Date of source: Friday, March 3, 2000
Akhmim summary court decided to release three of the accused in the incidents of looting, theft and burning in Dar Al-Salaam on a 200 EgP bail for each.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 29, 2000
A list of the twenty-one Christians killed in the recent riots in Al-Kosheh sent out by the Coptic Association of the UK. The list is reproduced here unedited by the RNSAW.
Date of source: Sunday, February 27, 2000
A group of Coptic youth give their reactions to the recent incidents of Al-Kosheh.
Date of source: Sunday, February 27, 2000
Though some shops damaged in the riots in Al-Kosheh suffered damaged amounting to 200,000 EgP a ministerial decision has limited the maximum compensation that any individual who suffered loss in the riots will receive from the Egyptian government to 1,000 EgP.
Date of source: Monday, February 28, 2000
"Giving statements requires being logical and fluent, and everything that lacks reason and does not reveal a truth is not a statement, even in signed by a hundred "intellectuals"!!, whether headed or not headed by Said Al-Naggar [Al-Naggar means the carpenter], the blacksmith, or even Said the car-...