10th anniversary of bloodiest day in Egypt's modern history. Know what happened

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modern history. On August 14, 2013, more than 900 unarmed people sitting on a protest demonstration were killed when the military opened fire on them. Most of them were supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi, who was deposed in a military coup.

It was the day when the army and police swooped down upon thousands of people holding peaceful sit-in demonstrations in Cairo’s Nahda Square and Rabaa Adawiya Square. The supporters of Mohamed Morsi were demanding to reinstate the ousted president. Muslim Brotherhood won the general election in 2013 and Morsi was elected president, but the army staged a coup and deposed him.

Earlier too, the Mosi supporters clashed with the police and faced a military crackdown. It was the third crackdown by the army that was supporting the government of Field Marshal Abdul Fattah al Sisi. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said that it was the largest killing of people on a single day and described it as the «darkest of days in Egypt's modern history».

Middle East and North Africa Research Director for Amnesty International, Philip Luther, told Sky News that it was a turning point in Egypt’s modern history after which the government adopted the policy of zero tolerance to any sort of dissent.

Besides the protesters, Sky News cameraman Mick Deane was also killed when a sniper bullet hit his chest as he was filming the protesting women reading the Koran, the holy book of Islam.

The protest against autocratic rulers of the Middle East broke out first in 2010 in Tunisia and soon engulfed the entire reason in what is called Arab