Key Points
It was the day when the army and police swooped down upon thousands of people holding peaceful sit-in demonstrations in Cairos Nahda Square and Rabaa Adawiya Square..
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said that it was the largest killing of people on a single day and described it as the "darkest of days in Egypt's modern history"...
Middle East and North Africa Research Director for Amnesty International, Philip Luther, told Sky News that it was a turning point in Egypts modern history after which the government adopted the policy of zero tolerance to any sort of dissent...
The people were holding sit-in demonstrations and they were demanding to reinstate deposed president Mohamed Morsi when the army opened fire on them..
It is called the darkest day in Egypts modern history because more than 900 unarmed people were killed in Cairo in one day...
