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Press TV
Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) seeks to usurp power through its efforts to isolate revolutionary forces in the North African country, a political analyst tells Press TV.

The SCAF seeks to hijack the revolution and isolate “the independent political activists” in an attempt “to maintain discipline according to their views in the political playground; and maintain parliament and all the political forces to stay on the same line which the SCAF wants - not what the real revolutionary forces want in the streets,” said Mohammad Fawaz from the April 6th Youth Movement in Cairo on Saturday.

“The revolutionary powers, as I used to say, are the most important “pain” for the SCAF and for the new government to deal with,” he added.

Over 10 protesters have been killed and hundreds of others have been wounded in the new wave of clashes in Egypt since Thursday evening after the police beat up a young man participating in a sit-in protest outside the cabinet building.

The protesters had camped outside the cabinet offices since late November to prevent Egypt's Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri from entering.

Ganzouri, who is a former prime minister of the regime of ex-dictator Hosni Mubarak, was appointed to the post once again by the incumbent military rulers.

Fawaz said the SCAF cannot usurp the revolution and put an end to the political movements in Egypt by resorting to violence and bloodshed.

Egyptian protesters want the SCAF, which took over power in Egypt after the February revolution, to hand over power to a civilian government.

Protesters say the SCAF practices the decades-long, ruthless methods of the regime of Mubarak.