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Former Prime Minister and current presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq reacts before a news conference in Cairo June 3, 2012. Egyptians living abroad started voting today in the second round of the country?s presidential election, scheduled for June 16-17 - REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Lieutenant General Ahmed Shafiq criticized on Monday what he called the “fabrication of contradictions” between the revolutions of July 1952 and January 2011 and considered it to be a form of entrenching discord in society and ingraining sedition on political and cultural foundations.
The July 1952 revolution cannot be erased from Egypt’s history just as the 1919 revolution and Ahmed Orabi’s revolution cannot be erased, Shafiq, Mubarak’s last prime minister and a contender in Egypt’s presidential runoff, said.
What the Egyptian army did in 1952 with the people’s support represents a glorious memory of the Egyptian people’s quest for freedom, justice and establishing a national regime.
“The 60th anniversary for this glorious revolution is an occasion for learning the lessons of history, benefit from its advantages and avoid its disadvantages,” Shafiq who currently resides outside of Egypt said today in a statement reported by the Middle East News Agency (MENA).