While the world heard about Shaimaa al-Sabbagh, a female political activist who was tragically shot and killed by police at close range during January 25 demonstrations, Egypt’s Coptic Christians are asking why their own who died on the same day in—by random bullets between police and the Muslim Brotherhood in different protests—have received little to no media attention.
Minya Maher, a 10-year-old Coptic boy was shot dead while he was on his way to the store to purchase something for his family, said his mother in a tearful interview. She heard he was shot in the neck and rushed to the hospital where a family member had taken the boy, only to find him dead in a “refrigerator box.”
Similarly, family members say that none of the media have mentioned Wasim Abdul Gabar, who was also shot dead during Brotherhood clashes with police on January 25 in a region where churches were also fired at. Distraught family members point out in interviews that he had waited for 12 years to have a child, his three year old son (pictured), only to leave him now as an orphan.
While the taking of any innocent life is tragic and strongly condemned, once again Copts find themselves seeking for some more balance and recognition in the Western MSM.