deaths in young Bouazizi Mohammed Said and Khaled are the keys to the revolution who now lives the Arab world: a series of popular revolts, mostly juveniles, which repeated in December in various Arab countries and have achieved even topple a president who spent 20 years in power in Tunisia.
Said was beaten to death in front of a cafe after trying to upload to YouTube a video of Egyptian police corruption. Bouazizi blew himself up in Tunisia after the police seize the vegetables you would sell at a street vendor.
Both were young, protesting injustice and clamored for a better future. They will not see, but their deaths lit the fuse of Arab youth. A very crowded youth-only in Tunis under 30 account for 52% of the population, increasingly educated and eager for democratic change and freedom of information. A youth living in Islam without fanaticism and tired of seeing that the men who rule their countries are the same as when they were born.
A disenchanted youth
The Maghreb has spent years noting that concern youth of a generation that calls on the world step and requires greater decision-making. The economic crisis and its difficult job prospects have radicalized their political views. And social networks have been used increasingly popular despite the censorship, for its internal organization and mass mobilization. Without the Internet do not understand the explosion Simultaneous demonstrations and protests that have lived in the last month, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, or Yemen Jodania.
The successful revolt against the authoritarian regime and corrupt driver Ben Ali in Tunisia, which ended up overthrowing the government, is what has fueled the young people of neighboring countries, with Egypt who now lives more mass protests, this time against Hosni Mubarak, in power since 1981.
has lived in Egypt on Friday another day of intense popular street protests, culminating with the announcement of the dissolution of the Government by President Mubarak.
"Danger of infection?
in Yemen also has spread the Tunisian example. Tens of thousands of people called by the main Yemeni opposition parties on Thursday were concentrated in four locations in the capital to ask the president, Abdullah AliSaleh not present at a re-election. Abdullah has 30 years in power. Protests
children, but several deaths have already made by the method of the immolation have also come to Algeria, Libya and Jordan. Neither Morocco has escaped. Already this week are four self-immolation. To prevent a revival here of protests, the regime of Mohamed VI has tabled a proposal to lower the staples and a subsidy to oil.
And how is reacting to these demonstrations the international community? The neighbor Israel is concerned about the events in Egypt. They fear that the overthrow of Mubarak geostrategic bring instability to the area, no wonder he's one of its main allies. However, the Israeli Government has stated its belief that Egypt will not be the same as in Tunisia, Mubarak achieved crush the protests.
Most Western governments welcomed protests they see as an openness to more democratic systems. They like that are not marked by Islamic fanaticism, and despite all that for years have supported governments which are now shown as dictatorships disguised
Source: 20 minutos.es
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