Since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak on 11 February and since the military recently it was the the most brutal crackdown.
While the square with anger and betrayal seethed, some leaders protest issued low-key statements aimed the confrontation de-escalation and defend more violence.
Early Sunday, a military curfew with no confrontation ended, more than a thousand protesters in the Piazza, remained even after the military ruling Council had sworn to remove with "Strength and force."
The military tried down the violence, denying that anyone had been killed, and after removal even it, insisting that those who had attacked the place were police officers under the control of the Ministry of Interior to play.
And in a page, taken by Mr Mubarak's manual, the military also claimed that the demonstrators of "Thugs" and "Outlaws." having been taken over A senior officer said that the rioters were sent by Mubarak loyalists.
But the army version of events was even its own Government disagreed: a report from the Health Ministry said a person died had.
Doctors in the hospital Qasr el-Aini supported witnesses report fatal captured two people on Saturday; They said that she had treated also 35 people for violations in the conflict. Human rights lawyers said 42 demonstrators imprisoned and later on charges which was been interrogated to violate the national curfew violation, and also a ban adopted by the Cabinet protests on 24 March.
The protest began on Friday, when Tahrir square was tens of thousands of people against the military tactics, the activists said the torture of demonstrators included abuse of women and the detention of thousands of people. The protest was one of the biggest since Mr Mubarak was ousted.
Another night, another approached curfew and other possible confrontation on Saturday, protest leader condemned the crackdown, but also offered words clearly determined to turn the temperature on the course below.
Mohammed El-Baradei, an opposition leader and potential presidential candidate, published a statement on its Facebook page that said: "The continuation of trust between the people and the army is a red line to protect the nation." "Dialogue is the only alternative."
Egypt on best organised political force, which had approved the protest on Friday, the Muslim Brotherhood, a statement on Saturday under the headline "the army and the people are on the one hand," a chant popular among the demonstrators when they were called on the military to their side during the revolution.
"The Union, between the army and the people must be done during the great revolution further and stronger", the statement said.
The coalition of youth of the revolution, an Association of groups, which had helped organize the revolution, said that it would suspend any dialogue with the military until the crackdown was investigated and people have been held to account.
But a member of the Coalition, Islam Lotfy, when the say that the group "is defended everyone right to protest," conceded that "we didn't think it was the right time for a sit-in."
Despite this news, many in the square remained, setting up tents on the Saturday night fell and on the decentralisation process which had begun what as, and in many ways is a people protest. And even the opposition leaders, who issued conciliatory statements still count on those on the course, to make the political pressure on the military.
The Army fought, frustrated for weeks, control in a country to set up rule by increasing poverty and decades strong arm. It has announced new elections, a central demand of the protesters, but has faced protests and weekly screenings of which faster democratic change navigate still work. The accusations of human rights led to say that she had overthrown a dictator, but not the dictatorship some demonstrators.
It gave up notes on Saturday morning, when gunfire was heard in downtown Cairo for more than two hours as thousands riot officers, uniformed police soldiers and military police officers stormed the place.
"It was raining balls," said Houssam, 26, to not to his last name for security reasons on the stroll through the square at noon in search of friends, he melee had lost meteor showers in the. "It was a tremendous amount to shoot." "I didn't know what was going on that."
Security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed that the military used live ammunition, tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters who said they chased down narrow side streets were, as they tried to flee.
Protesters back control of the square of Sunrise, force security forces again under a deluge of stones and fire to set three of their vehicles.
Noon was sealed behind makeshift barricades of barbed wire and metal carrier and covered with stones from the early morning clashes.
Protesters said that they uniformed dissenters from the armed forces, synchronized "free soldiers," were connected by more than two dozen, trying to protect the demonstrators.
While leaders more measured politicians and protest, the mood at the place was outrage.
"The military leaders are criminals corrupt, ignorant!" shouted a demonstrator, Essam, which would be not his last name for fear of a reprisals. "The next protest, we must leave Tahrir and the Ministry of defence."
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