It was two years ago when Egypt witnessed a massacre that was unprecedented in its history. Egyptian security forces fired on people with live ammunition killing many. Huge crowds were in Rabaa Square protesting the military coup and around 6:00 a.m. protesters were praying in the square and in Adawiyya Mosque, which was heavily damaged by government forces. On July 3, 2013 the first democratically elected president of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi was toppled after a bloody military coup, headed by the incumbent President and former General Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. Morsi was accused of deteriorating the Egyptian economy, aiding Hamas, spying for certain countries and polarizing society. People who were against Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood went to the streets at the end of June to protest the Islamist government. After the protests started, the army sided with the protesters and gave an ultimatum to Morsi that said he had to resign in two days. Morsi stressed the fact that he was elected and only another election could remove him. The army did accept Morsi's argument of being elected. While the tension escalated in Cairo among different factions and the army, the people on the streets also expressed different demands. The sit-in protests to show solidarity with Morsi started even before the anti-Morsi protests. Despite the support of the masses the army overthrew Morsi and his cabinet, violating the constitution and universal democratic values. Morsi and many other prominent political figures that were also either members of the Muslim Brotherhood or related to it were arrested. Pro-Morsi and pro-democracy protesters did not leave the streets. They chanted slogans against Sissi and the coup. Sissi claimed that the protesters were threating national security while making a call to his supporters to go to Tahrir Square. Sissi finally gave the order to clear Rabaa Square, which had become the pro-Morsi protesters' main area. Aug. 14, 2013 has been called one of the worst days in Egyptian history.The security forces arrived in the morning to clear the square and blocked all the entrances and exits from 6:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m., according to eye witnesses. Daily Sabah spoke to two of the witnesses to document the day.Yamen Zakarya, 20, said, "I was at the Rabaa media center on the Aug. 14 at 6:00 a.m. when they informed me that the army would attack soon. I decided with two of my friends to stay, we went out and had our tea. Then we found the tanks starting to block the three entrances of the square at 7:00 a.m. I remember the view around the entrances. It was like a battle, we thought we should stay to help the other protesters by hurling stones and helping the injured. But of course we could not. We were getting shot at directly and we could not reach anyone to whom we could resist. Most of the time we were lying on the ground to protect our heads. One of my friends got injured and I went looking for him at Rabaa Hospital and I saw Asmaa el-Baltagy dead there. [Asmaa al-Baltagy was killed at the age of 17 and was the daughter of Mohammed el-Baltagy, one of the Muslim Brotherhood's top officials.] What I saw on that day was only death. I do not participate in protests anymore as I started believing that we should change our mentalities, tools and cooperate more to get rid of this coup."A.N., 19, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to security reasons, witnessed the same moment while he was blocked outside the square and was trying to enter to help his loved ones. He said "It was 7:00 a.m. and I went there with my father and brother. We were trying to help our friends that were trapped inside. Yet police forces stopped us at the beginning, firing gas bullets only. But later they had strong back up and at 9:00 a.m. I saw with my own eyes a bullet killing a man. We had nothing in our hands but some rocks. At 12 o'clock I saw some snipers wearing police uniforms on the roof of a civilian building. They started firing on us, bullets were everywhere, blood covered the streets and we tried to reach inside the whole day until my brother was shot by a bullet in the back. He was treated by some doctors in a nearby mosque. It was such a bloody day. I was in shock and in the streets nobody believed what was happening. Every minute I was learning that another friend was killed, injured, lost or captured." Asma al-Beltagy was one of the victims of the coup in Egypt She was killed by a police officer using a sniper rifle to hunt protesters in the squares, chanting slogans against the coup and for Mohammed Morsi. She was only 17 when she was shot in Rabaa al-Adawiya Square, which has become the symbol of anti-coup protests. It was claimed that she was chosen as a target deliberately as her father Mohamed al-Beltagy was one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.The systematic and widespread killing of at least 817 demonstrators by Egyptian security forces in July and August 2013 probably amounts to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released on Tuesday, based on a year-long investigation. The 188-page report titled, "All According to Plan: The Rab'a Massacre and Mass Killings of Protesters in Egypt," documents the way Egyptian security forces fired on crowds. "In Rab'a Square, Egyptian security forces carried out one of the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of HRW. "This wasn't merely a case of excessive force or poor training. It was a violent crackdown planned at the highest levels of the Egyptian government. Many of the same officials are still in power in Egypt, and have a lot to answer for." HRW interviewed more than 200 witnesses, including protesters, doctors, local residents and independent journalists, visited each of the protest sites during or immediately after the attacks began and reviewed physical evidence, hours of video footage and statements by public officials. HRW wrote to relevant Egyptian ministries soliciting the government's perspective on these events, but received no responses.The Rabaa massacre has ignited anger around the world and today thousands of people not only in Egypt, but also from Turkey to Indonesia, organize demonstrations to condemn the bloody attack on the peaceful and unarmed protesters. While the Muslim Brotherhood claims that the death toll was more than 1,500, the HRW report said there was a minimum of 817 deaths.Even after two years, the massacre is still remembered as hundreds of people organized demonstrations across the world. Exiled Muslim Brotherhood members, who have established an organization, named Rabaa Story, to reveal the facts about the massacre and seek justice in international area for the victims, have been working to raise awareness in several locations including Istanbul, Tokyo, Rio De Janeiro, Melbourne, London, Paris, New York and Washington D.C. The organization said 868 were killed in the square, 199 deaths were documented outside the square and 37 people are still missing. In total the death toll was more than 1100. The organization also said that several unidentified dead bodies were taken to morgues and buried later.