年時代十佳新聞照片(8) 開羅解放廣場的血腥示威

8. Mosa'ab Elshamy. Cairo, Egypt. July 27, 2013.

2013年7月27日，埃及開羅，攝影：莫薩·阿布·埃爾莎米

I rushed to Rabaa Adaweya square shortly after midnight on July 27th after hearing that security forces were attacking Morsi supporters who had been camped there for two months. Throughout the night I would alternate between the front-line, the makeshift hospital and a room where dead were kept, documenting a level of brute violence and horror I hadn't witnessed until that night. There was a constant stream of ambulances and motorbikes in the camp. The sound of sirens and panicked shouts mixed with that of live ammunition, and the air was filled with tear gas and black smoke.

7月27日後半夜，得知安全部隊襲擊已紮營兩月的穆爾西支持者時，我立刻趕到開羅解放廣場。整個晚上，我往返奔波於前線、臨時醫院和死亡人員放置所，記錄下我前所未睹的殘酷暴力與恐怖。營地周圍救護車和摩托車往來不絕。炮火聲中，汽笛轟鳴，人羣驚慌尖叫。空氣中瀰漫着催淚瓦斯和滾滾黑煙。

Twelve hours later, I put the camera away as I got exhausted and headed back home. On my way out I heard screams and noticed a large group of people. Two men carried a dead young man who had very recently been shot in the head. The man (on the right) was in a state of shock. Unaware that the man he carried was dead, he pleaded for a medic or an ambulance and screamed for God's mercy. I quickly got the camera out and took this photo. It was the last picture I took on that horrific day, but it remains the most memorable.

12小時後，我放下相機，筋疲力盡往家趕。路上尖叫聲不斷，我碰到了一羣人，兩個男子架着一個頭部中彈死去的年輕人。右邊的男子神情驚呆，他甚至沒意識到自己架着的人已死去，還一個勁兒請求醫治他，擡上救護車，求上帝的憐憫。我立刻拿出相機，拍下了這張照片。這是在那恐怖的一天我拍的最後一張照片，但卻是最令人難忘的。