Cairo, Oct 3 (ANI): The head of Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of Armed Forces, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, has said he is not worried about the growing public frustration over the continuance of military control in the country.
"We won't stop before those who speak and criticize. Nothing stops us and we will carry Egypt to stability," the Los Angeles Times quoted Field Marshal Tantawi, as saying.
The military council has been criticized for not lifting the country's 30-year-old emergency law, the new election laws and the continuing trial of civilians by military courts.
Field Marshal Tantawi also defended his testimony in the trial of former President Hosni Mubarak, who is charged with corruption and complicity to commit murder in the deaths of hundreds of protesters.
Civil rights lawyers complained that Field Marshal Tantawi's testimony was favorable to Mubarak and that they were not allowed to cross-examine former.
During a televised speech in April, Field Marshal Tantawi told a graduating class of police officers that SCAF members met shortly after the revolution began on January 25 and decided not to fire live ammunition at the protesters.
According to civil rights lawyers, those comments suggested that the military had opted to ignore Mubarak's orders.
Lawyers recently claimed that Field Marshal Tantawi denied that there were orders to use deadly force.
"It, the testimony, was the testimony of truth from a man who fought for more than 40 years for the sake of God and Egypt," the paper quoted Field Marshal Tantawi, as saying.
"We were not asked to shoot at people and we'll never fire live gunshots," he added. (ANI)
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