Source : Maan News Agency
EL-ARISH, Egypt (Ma'an) -- Egyptians in the northern Sinai peninsula will launch a campaign of civil disobedience next week to protest the government's neglect of the region, a Ma'an correspondent said.
Political and civil society groups will start a series of sit-in protests and civil disobedience tactics on Tuesday in response to what they see as neglect of the area by Egypt's central government.
Khalid Arafat, chairman of the al-Karama political party, told Ma'an tha developments projects initiated by the government have not achieve anything in Sinai, and people will protest until their demands are met.
The policy of neglecting the Sinai peninsula is still being practiced b President Mursi, Arafat added.
Two years after the revolution that toppled president Hosni Mubara Egypt's Islamist rulers are contending with a rise in militant activity in th Sinai region that borders Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Egyptian security forces have waged a security campaign in the desert Sina region to reign in militant groups, after 16 Egyptian border guards wer killed in an attack on their post in August.
Security problems such as kidnapping, murder, drug smuggling and violenc continue to affect the Sinai peninsula, where tribesman have lon complained of neglect by the state and have in the past clashed with police who they accuse of heavy-handed tactics.
