Egypt's people speak out against temporary leader of country

SIGNS in Tahrir Square this week, written by individuals rather than any organised campaigns, reflect the staggering array of demands unleashed by the uprising against Mubarak's regime.

"The martyr's father. Egypt and I are proud of the hero," said one man's simple handwritten message on the back of a T-shirt he wore while sitting this week in the square with a megaphone slung over his shoulder.

One girl held up a sign that said: "Even if it requires our blood, we will get our rights."

Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces - the country's temporary leadership body - has emerged as a figure of particular public hatred.

"The people want the removal of the Field Marshal," has become a common chant in the square - a modified version of the famous "the people want the removal of the regime" cry that helped bring down Mubarak.