Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2000 to Friday, January 28, 2000
We have sadly followed the bloody incidents of Al-Kosheh. I oppose the opinions referring the incidents to external factors. In my opinion, the main reason for this and other incidents is divided into many factors...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2000 to Friday, January 28, 2000
We must not swallow the bait, and make a funeral of every terrorist activity happening in Egypt, weeping and fearing a terrorism that has come back, and become like diabetes where a patient can only live with the disease, not be cured from it! There is a great difference between the terrorism that...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2000 to Friday, January 28, 2000
After deciding to change the name of the village of Al-Kosheh in Sohag to the village of Al-Salaam [meaning, Peace] in accordance with the wishes of the local administration... the local administration units in a number of cities and villages in Upper Egypt are conducting a comprehensive research...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2000 to Friday, January 28, 2000
Among his suggestions for actions to resolve the Al-Kosheh crisis the author writes: Enough the "Everything-is-all-right" committees! A government body for managing such crises must be founded. It must have the right of immediate intervention [in any such crisis]. Its opinion must be binding upon...
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2000
The peacemaking committee has not completed its work in Al-Kosheh. They have a few major problems.
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2000
The minister of local development, Mr. Mustafa Abdel-Qader, declared that the peacemaking committee in Al-Kosheh is working towards four principal targets:
1. Delivering any criminals, be they Christian or Muslim, to the prosecution services.
2. Confronting any false rumors.
3. Aiming to educate...
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2000
Al-Kosheh is an Egyptian village that was unknown until August 1998. After the recent events in Al-Kosheh, the editor-in-chief of Al-Wafd, Mr. Saad Abdel-Khaleq, asked the government to change the village’s name from Al-Kosheh [which means enmity] to Al-Mahaba [meaning Love]. He also asked...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2000 to Friday, January 28, 2000
Extremist terrorists must realize that their road is blocked, and that the incidents at Al-Kosheh will not be repeated.
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2000
The counselor Hisham Saraya ordered the re-detention of four accused in the Kosheh events in Sohag for 30 days.
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2000
The ambassador and the under secretary of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Human Rights, Hany Khilaf, declared that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has provided the Egyptian embassies with all the information on the events in Al-Kosheh and the procedures that are being taken by the government.