Saturday’s mass killings demonstrate that the military command and unreformed Interior Ministry are not just renegade remnants of the Mubarak regime but constitute the very core of its continued hegemony. Through a combination of skilful political manoeuvring, thoroughly planned economic sabotage and a carefully crafted media campaign replete with quasi-democratic propaganda, the army has now managed to convince a large part of the population that it is acting as a guarantor of the 2011 revolution, and that “the people and the army are one hand.” Nothing could be further from the truth.