The protesters are now demanding a quick hand over of power to civilians.

The failure of Egypt's ruling Military Council to securely transfer power to civil leadership within the specified timeline is fueling new, violent protests with deadly clashes between protesters and the police yesterday February 5 entering the fourth day, the local press reported.

­Fresh clashes continued outside the Interior Ministry yesterday as police once again resorted to volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets against angry stone-throwing demonstrators. At least a dozen more people have died and over 2,000 injured in protests across the country since 74 were killed at a riot following a football match on February 1, 2012.

In response to the protests, Egyptian authorities are debating whether to move a presidential election forward from its current planned date in June. The President and entire board of Egypt's Football Association were fired after the tragedy, but the move failed to stop protests over the deaths. Demonstrators across the country maintain that there was more to the clashes than a regular football rivalry. They do not blame the football federation, and instead place the guilt on the security services for allowing armed militants to enter the stadium.

Civilian rule has remained an unfulfilled dream, and economic life in the country has not returned to, Prof. Omar Ashour from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, England, told a local paper. All these expectations: a better economy, dignity, freedom, daily bread and all the slogans of the revolution have not been accomplished a year after the revolution, Ashour noted. He recalled that the deadline for the most important expectation – a power transfer within the first six months of Mubarak's exit from power – passed long time ago.

Al-Jazeera Television yesterday February 5, 2012 reported that Egypt's tax authority building in central Cairo was set on fire as the street protests raged into the early hours of Sunday.