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Human Rights Watch/Middle East unequivocally condemns the attack today on visitors to the Hatshepsut temple in Luxor.

"The deliberate and arbitrary killing of civilians is unconscionable, and violates the most basic principles of humanity," said executive director Hanny Megally. "No set of grievances by the assailants can be used to justify the wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians."

Human Rights Watch calls on the exiled and in-country leadership of armed opposition groups in Egypt, including Jihad and the Islamic Group, to condemn publicly the targeting of both Egyptian and foreign civilians, and to issue clear instructions to their followers, including the armed elements, to cease such attacks immediately and unconditionally. "In situations of internal unrest, civilians must always be protected from acts of violence. The deliberate targeting of civilians -- such as the attack near Abu Qurqas that killed eight Egyptians on February 12, and another thirteen near Nag Hammadi on March 13 -- is designed to spread terror, and must be condemned in the strongest possible terms," Megally said.

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