Hosni Mubarak finally resigned on February 11th, 2011, after 18 days of protests [BBC].
It is the second dictator that falls in the region, after Ben Ali in Tunisia.
It is the second dictator that falls in the region, after Ben Ali in Tunisia.
Showing posts with label egypt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label egypt. Show all posts
Monday, February 14, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Mass protests continue in Egypt
Hundreds of thousands protest again in Tahrir Square. For the 15th day, the egyptians tell Mubarak that he has to go.
Follow live at Al Jazeera.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Egypt Latest News
Good News from Egypt?
Al Jazeera anounces that police chief responsible for security of Tahrir Square, may be being asked about his responsability in the chaos that Cairo lived yesterday night.
Also, some Mubarak allies may have been forbidden flying out of Egypt.
UPDATE
BBC also confirms that Egyptian State Television has given this news:
"1425: The Egyptian state news agency reports that those former ministers prevented from leaving the country include ex-interior minister Habib al-Adly, former housing minister Ahmed el-Maghrabi and former tourism minister Zuhair Garana."
"1445: State TV reports that another of those banned from leaving the country is Ahmed Ezz, former member of the National Democratic Party and billionaire businessman. Bank accounts have also been frozen."
Al Jazeera anounces that police chief responsible for security of Tahrir Square, may be being asked about his responsability in the chaos that Cairo lived yesterday night.
Also, some Mubarak allies may have been forbidden flying out of Egypt.
UPDATE
BBC also confirms that Egyptian State Television has given this news:
"1425: The Egyptian state news agency reports that those former ministers prevented from leaving the country include ex-interior minister Habib al-Adly, former housing minister Ahmed el-Maghrabi and former tourism minister Zuhair Garana."
"1445: State TV reports that another of those banned from leaving the country is Ahmed Ezz, former member of the National Democratic Party and billionaire businessman. Bank accounts have also been frozen."
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Lights off in Tahrir Square?
Worrying news arrive from Egypt, claiming that lights are of at Tahrir Square.
Is Mubarak preparing a massacre?
Egyptian Army Betrayal
We wrote on February, 1st, that "In the forthcoming events, the egyptian army will have a decisive leadership or role, it may become the judge between them."
This afternoon we have seen the results of the coward move made by the army this morning:
"The Egyptian military called Wednesday for an end to more than a week of demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak, throwing its support behind his embattled regime hours after he defiantly rejected demands to step down immediately and said he would serve out his term in office." [CBS]
Later that evening they have permitted the violet Mubarak supporters attack the protesters at Tahrir Square.
This afternoon we have seen the results of the coward move made by the army this morning:
"The Egyptian military called Wednesday for an end to more than a week of demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak, throwing its support behind his embattled regime hours after he defiantly rejected demands to step down immediately and said he would serve out his term in office." [CBS]
Later that evening they have permitted the violet Mubarak supporters attack the protesters at Tahrir Square.
Mubarak supporters begin war
"There have been unconfirmed reports that some of the pro-Mubarak group have been found with police identification - although Egypt's Interior Ministry denied these allegations." [Channel 4]
Mubarak apuesta por la guerra civil
El dictador egipcio, Hosni Mubarak, ha apostado por la guerra civil, enviando a miles de sus partidarios a la plaza Tahrir Square donde se producía la protesta pacífica enn su contra.
Los heridos se cuentan ya por centenares.
The Egyptian dictator, Hosni Mubarak, has opted for civil war, sending thousands of his supporters to Tahrir Square Square where there was peaceful protest against enn.
There are already hundreds of injured.
Follow the news on BBC, CNN and Al-Jazeera.
Los heridos se cuentan ya por centenares.
The Egyptian dictator, Hosni Mubarak, has opted for civil war, sending thousands of his supporters to Tahrir Square Square where there was peaceful protest against enn.
There are already hundreds of injured.
Follow the news on BBC, CNN and Al-Jazeera.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Egypt is moving... But towards where?
The Egyptian revolution will be studied in the future. That is an evidence. But not only because it will tell the story of how a dictator was overthrown or survived a revolution (which seems quite unlikely).
But also it will be studied because, although we can't see it now in the march and in the protests, there are two diverging forces, mainly conflicting, despite now they walk together.
The forces are the liberals on one side, and the islamists on the other. It is quite undeniable that the liberals will try to establish a european-alike democracy, whilst the islamists (mostly the Muslim Brotherhood) will try to establish something different, probably a islamist republic.
In the forthcoming events, the egyptian army will have a decisive leadership or role, it may become the judge between them.
We are witnessing an amazing series of revolutions in the muslim world. But they bring us old fears and doubts; what we should do, support a dictator, or support democracy, even if it can lead to a rise of islamism?
The big problem is that, undoubtedly we have been feeding the egyptian (and other countries) islamisms by supporting dictators.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Internet Revolutions
After the release of the Wikileaks cables, there was much controversy about the inminence of a cyber-war, that would confront the Government of the USA and its allies and the Wikileaks supporters. That "war" was not so, but a series of attacks to some companies that helped the US administration to financialy strangle Wikileaks.
But the collateral effects of the release of the cables has been undeniable: the fall of dictaro Ben Ali in Tunisia, and now the events that are taking place in Egypt and Yemen. These dictators have survived too many years, witht the support and complicity of the western governments, that thanked their help in the war against Al-Qaeda with silence about the crimes that they repeatedly commited in their countries.
But, hasn't this helpend the rise and growth of the islamists movements that, ironically, have presented themselves as "freedom fighters"?
On the other hand, we have the use that the promoters of these popular revolution have made of the new technologies proves that these are dangerous weapons for all fascists of the world (and not only in distant countries, but also in Europe and America).
But the collateral effects of the release of the cables has been undeniable: the fall of dictaro Ben Ali in Tunisia, and now the events that are taking place in Egypt and Yemen. These dictators have survived too many years, witht the support and complicity of the western governments, that thanked their help in the war against Al-Qaeda with silence about the crimes that they repeatedly commited in their countries.
But, hasn't this helpend the rise and growth of the islamists movements that, ironically, have presented themselves as "freedom fighters"?
On the other hand, we have the use that the promoters of these popular revolution have made of the new technologies proves that these are dangerous weapons for all fascists of the world (and not only in distant countries, but also in Europe and America).
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