Feminicides Yemen the axis of the rebellion Tunisia: And suddenly ... rebellion
Anne Marie Mergia Young Tunisians were key players in the "Jasmine Revolution" which resulted in the downfall of dictator Zine al Abidine Ben Ali. Not only staged massive demonstrations, also drew on the technology-phones and the Internet, to denounce abuses, organize and reflect on the situation in his country. Distrustful of the political class, remain vigilant that it does not rob them of a historic victory: it is the first revolution in an Arab country so far shy away from religious extremism and embrace the values \u200b\u200bof democracy and freedom. PARIS, Jan. 26 (Process) .- On Jan. 11 Sami Ben Hassine nawaat.org published a text, a Tunisian collective blog has played an important role in the "Jasmine Revolution".
Sami, a young Tunisian middle class is representative of "Ben Ali generation": born 23 years ago, in 1987, when dictator Zine al Abidine Ben Ali took power.
The netizen wrote:
belong to the new generation that lived in Tunis under the absolute reign of Ben Ali. In high school and college ever one afraid to talk politics. There are spies everywhere. No one dares to discuss in public. Everyone beware. Your neighbor, your friend, the man at the corner is a snitch Ben Ali. Did the police want to take you by force to a secret place at four in the morning? Grow terrified by the idea of \u200b\u200bcompromise. Study. We left at night. Do not care about politics.
Slowly We knew of the shenanigans of the "family real "and stories about this or that relative of Leila (Trabelsi, second wife of Ben Ali), one took control of an industry, other foreign lands seized a third party doing business with the Italian Mafia. Everyone is aware. But no one acts. We studied (...)
live. We do not live. We think we live. We want to believe that all is well, and we belong to the middle class. But we know that the cafes are full only because they are the refuge of the unemployed who spend their days talking about football. The police are afraid when told that one belongs to the family of Ben Ali. Then all the doors open, the hotels offer their best rooms, and parking are free, traffic rules no longer exist. Tunisia is a giant virtual pitch. Those in power are not at risk, can do whatever they please: the laws are their puppets.
Internet is blocked. The censored pages appear as inaccessible as if they never existed. In schools students exchange their proxy (internet servers that provide access to websites from other countries). A haunting question becomes: Do you have a proxy that works?
Tunisia. Corruption. Bites. Desire to leave. Application for scholarship to study in France or Canada. Quits. We are cowards and we assume. Leaving the country to govern it.
Come to France. We forgot a bit of Tunisia. We return for the holidays. "Tunisia? Beaches of Sousse or Hammamet, nightclubs. Restaurants. "Tunisia? A giant resort.
And suddenly WikiLeaks reveals what everyone knows (about the regime of Ben Ali).
And suddenly a young man burned alive.
And suddenly kills 20 Tunisians in a single day.
first And all this seems reason enough to rebel, to take revenge on the royal family that broke out, to destroy the established order, which was the one that prevailed during our youth.
An educated youth who are fed up and are preparing to destroy all the symbols of that Tunisia archaic, autocratic.
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Mohamed's life changed Bouazizi dramatically with the death of his father. Become sole breadwinner of his family, he abandoned his studies. Sought help from the Class of Students Unemployed. In vain. Failed to work. He ended up selling fruit and vegetables on the streets of his city: Sidi Bouzid, southern Tunisia. Was not licensed to do so.
suffered harassment by police and municipal employees. On December 17, confiscated his merchandise. Mohamed was the Gouvernorat (administrative headquarters of the region) to complain. The employees rejected it. Bought gasoline. Gouvernorat returned to the building, was soaked with fuel and lit a match. Died January 4 Ben Arous hospital in the capital. He was 26.
Houcine Neji also lived in Sidi Bouzid. He was 24 years old and unemployed. On December 22, participated in a demonstration of repudiation by the death of Bouazizi. Suddenly he climbed a power pole to protest loudly against unemployment and poverty. Touched power lines electrocuted and fell.
Alhammi Ayub was only 17 years. Trying to organize a rally in solidarity with the revolt of Sidi Bouzid at the Institute Al Wafa, where he studied. His initiative has outraged school officials. The expelled. As Bouazizi Alhammi went to buy gasoline, returned to their school and blew himself up.
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Slim Amamou was arrested by police on January 6. The intelligence services charged with "destroying official websites." In fact, Slim404, his pseudonym blogista had only mentioned the cyber attack launched against government sites for Anonymous, an international group of hackers who, in solidarity with WikiLeaks, blocked last December, access to internet payment sites hostile to Julian Assange. Later that month, Anonymouse Tunisia Force unleashed which stopped without destroying eight Tunisian government sites, including the presidency.
Amamou was released a week later, on 13 January. He was sparing of his arrest. Said he had not suffered physical torture. Just spoke with psychological stress. On January 18, took over as Secretary of State for Youth and Sport in the very chaotic and controversial Tunisian transitional government.
Amamou is one of most influential cyber-dissidents in Tunisia. He is 33 and was the bane of the intelligence services of Ben Ali, who sought to gag at any cost. Last March, he publicly denounced the attacks by the cyber police to email accounts from many Internet users. Two months later, on May 22, the day of international action against Internet censorship, organized a demonstration in Tunisia along with activists of peaceful citizens Nhar 3la 3ammar.
Upon learning of the suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi and the impact it had in the region of Sidi Bouzid, the network reported the police repression pictures taken on cell phones in places of the facts. He soon became a key element of the Tunisian youth rebellion.
His arrest was a major event in the blogosphere, not only because it is a recognized character in the cyberworld, but because he managed to turn geotagging on his cell phone. The Internet could well be traced back and realize that their captors were locked in the basement of the Ministry of Interior ... was an arrest on line.
Before his arrest, wore long and curly hair. On 18 January, when he joined the provisional government, appeared shaven. He said that the police had detained incommunicado for a week were responsible for her new look.
Amamou, who runs a small consulting firm called Alixsys electronics, it is said apolitical and only claimed his membership in the Tunisian Pirate Party, member of the international network of pirate parties whose sole purpose is to defend freedom online total .
not resigned as Secretary of State for Youth and Sports after four ministers members of opposition parties to Ben Ali, withdrew from the cabinet. In television interviews explained that the former prime minister Mohamed Ghannouchi had proposed half-hour into the cabinet before presenting the new government to the press.
Amamou not appear to disturb the fact that the Tunisian government rejected that. "I want people to hear the voice of the Internet," he said. "I will resign if I can not do and not because others give up," he said.
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Girl is the pseudonym Tunisian cyber Mhemi Lina Ben, a blogger who decided to take up arms reporting in conflict zones and denounced both his blog and Twitter abuses by police forces. The pictures he took of five demonstrators killed in Regueb, a city near Sidi Bouzid, they turned to the blogosphere.
Lina was also the first to publicize the arrest of Slim Amamou, caught by police with two blogistas: Aziz Hammadi Ammami and Kaloutchka. Thanks to his Facebook page his reports are increasingly hearing.
The same goes nawaat.org, a group blog that brings a wealth of information about what is happening across the country.
Sami Ben Hassine, Mohamed Bouazizi, Houcine Neji, Alhammi Ayub, Slim Ben Mehmi Amamou and Lina are only six thousand young people from taking their destiny into their hands. Along with the militants of the powerful General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT) were the engine of this "Jasmine Revolution" that overthrew the regime of Ben Ali and to lay the foundations for a democratic system.
should not be surprised by the massive presence of young people in the protests. The average age in this country of 11 million people is 30 years and youth aged between 15 and 29 years are most affected by unemployment, whatever their level of education. Representing 72% of those who can not find work.
Three of them took radical action and died. Others took to the physical action in the streets and acted technologically with their cell phones, personal computers or Internet cafes, to write their blogs, social networking move, like Facebook or Twitter, and go to the exchange sites information such as YouTube and Dailymotion. Flooded the web with minivideos taken during demonstrations in the country, clashes with police, in hospitals where they lay wounded ... They eventually exceed the control of the censors of Ben Ali.
More than 2 million Tunisians have a personal page on Facebook. It is a record in North Africa. According to the nawaat.org, dictatorship had a cyber police force that engaged 600 experts to harass and plunder the most critical pages. The pirated and saturated with pro-government propaganda. The regime acted ruthlessly with the pioneers of resistance cyber created in 1998 page Takriz. Were persecuted and imprisoned. Do not give up and served as an example.
Netizens now play an important role in the "defense of the Revolution of Jasmine." Tunisian encourage organize vigilance committees to protect against "Benal" armed forums on democratic changes in Tunisia is urgently needed, discuss the best way to dismantle the system of Ben Ali, questioned the composition of government transition, are cited for further street demonstrations.
PARIS .- Intellectuals and novelists in the Arab world discussed the origin and impact of the "Jasmine Revolution" that caught everybody off guard, and throw questions about what may happen in the coming weeks.
Process reproduced below the reflections of the Moroccan writer Abdellah Taia, the sociologist of Iranian Farhad Khosrokhavar, director of research at the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS, by its French acronym), and writer and cultural journalist Franco-Tunisian Abdelwahab Meddeb, professor of comparative literature at the University of Paris XI.
The three published their articles on Tuesday 18 January. The first two in the afternoon Le Monde and the third in the newspaper Liberation.
Abdellah Taia: emptiness
"The revolution that was done at this time in Tunisia is a miracle unexpected, and the protests that have shaken today in Algeria should be taken seriously.
"For too long, says that the Arab people is completely asleep and unable to scream subject. It is said that in almost all Arab countries managed to muzzle all rebellious political movement. Left almost does not exist. It imposed a huge political vacuum, ideological and intellectual who became the only place in life and death to citizens.
"No doubt all true. All that pretty much sums up the contempt with which the Arab people were treated by their leaders over the past five decades. It was all for that Arabic is not cultivated, does not think, do not feel involved in the events of the country where you live, the problems of society that evolves. Worse, everything was done to force him to take refuge in a very radical and medieval Islam. Everyone needs to make sense of their lives. To some Arabs Islam has been the only way forward. No one has left.
"The gap has been total in the Arab world. I have 37 years. I know what I mean. I also come from the gap. As a novelist and as an individual, write from the vacuum. Part of this inability to exist without bowing his head.
"The split between the Arab people and its leadership is very real. The rich are directly linked to power continue to behave as if they lived elsewhere in the world, perhaps in Switzerland, where all have bank accounts filled with robbing the country outright. Culture that could give meaning to life is also the privilege of those with economic means.
"Arab intellectuals finally left the village. Unless some brave defenders of human rights, there are few who dared to raise the alarm, just did their job by the people, and not in another area, on another planet. It is sad to admit it, but these scholars still treat their fellow citizens with disdain, contempt. Prefer to talk about Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Albert Camus instead of helping the Arabs to change their image of themselves, to rebuild their dignity, to rise to exist by themselves, to demonstrate, to scream.
"It is in this context that must analyze what is currently happening in Tunisia and Algeria. The people expressed today, defying all that had been banned, they can do no more, stems in large part of that void that was kept deliberately. If today cries out, if finally says, if you dare to challenge the power and the rich, boldly out into the street, it is because it has nothing to lose. Death and power no longer scared. That always humiliated the Arab who is forbidden to live up to our eyes. He was dead. Miraculously resurrected (...)
"With a West haunted by the Islamists become experts in international communication, the Arab people was forgotten. Today is back. Try to speak (...)
"It is high time to see Arabs in a different way. It is time to stop equating all Islamists as dangerous or see them as kind and hospitable people who smile when masses of tourists visiting their countries. It is time to stop being blinded. The Arabs, like any other people, they need freedom. And when spring sparks democratic West should support the people, not their leaders try to defend the West against the Islamic threat. "
Farhad Khosrokhavar" vicious circle "
" The movement that ended the dictatorship Ben Ali was poorly structured and totally unpredictable. Only joined the immense boredom that suffered most of the Tunisian population.
"It started as a rebellion by hunger, as stated in the Arab world as 'a rebellion by the pan': a young high school student commits suicide because the police destroyed his stall in a small town, located 260 kilometers from the capital, in an inland area of \u200b\u200bthe country very poor and far from coastal areas. Several factors explain why the protest movement has spread throughout the country. First highlights the fragility of the dictatorship in Tunisia.
"Aged and unmotivated, unable to understand the society of his country and his new ruling classes, Ben Ali, whose family has ruled Tunisia, was not quite ready to defend themselves. Like a house of cards, their power, seen as formidable, solid and stable collapsed in less than a month.
"Economically, the regime of Ben Ali was a bit more successful than those of Algeria or Egypt, but his problem was he did not understand the new Tunisian society that was shaping or the feeling of injustice that grew within the population outraged by the breach of classes, which became the last two decades in a small gap between the privileged elite and a town on the edge of despair, excluded and poor.
"also played an important role the ravages of a system of repression and intimidation that stood out as one of the most frightening and dreaded the Arab world, as well as a family system of corruption could only be compared to the one in Egypt and the Algerian military high dome (...)
"Like it or not recognize, the fall of Ben Ali destabilizes other autocratic Arab governments in the region, such as Egypt, Algeria, Jordan and perhaps to some extent in Morocco. All these schemes suffer from a serious lack of legitimacy, they are all based on a vision undemocratic society, all are fed at different levels of corruption and abuse of power concentration in the hands of a person or a small group of soldiers. All have direct or indirect support of the West, alarmed by the radical Islamism as wielding scarecrow. Vicious circle: this strengthens radical Islam denouncing the "rot" of such schemes.
"The points in favor of the motion to Tunisia and in Algeria are, paradoxically, its lack of organization, its diffuse and total unpredictability, although the Internet helps spread the images of repression abroad , its main strength lies in the putrefaction of the political powers that have nothing to propose to the people or to their own supporters.
"As Western countries, and would be time to take a fundamental decision: either continue to support dictatorships increasingly being degraded, or respect the aspirations of a growing part of the world's population Arab powers seeking acquire pluralistic and open.
"The Tunisians who belong to the secular society around the North Africa did not seem attracted to political Islamism. Despite political opposition beheaded, a vision of democracy can lead to all the supporters of stability and pave the way for a national unity government representing the whole society. But many obstacles remain. The disbelief that hangs over the political system can become difficult to create a power worthy of trust. "
Abdelwahab Meddeb: devastated landscape
"The Tunisian Constitution has been battered and disfigured, first by Habib Bourguiba (Father of Independence and first Prime Minister of independent Tunisia), when he created the life presidency, then by Ben Ali. Nevertheless, the core of this text, prepared in 1957 must be preserved because it says key points: secularism and equality of all citizens, whatever their sex, religion and ethnicity. In our Constitution there is no trace of the Sharia, there is no reference to Islamic law as the inspiration of the right, unlike what happens in many Arab-Muslim countries. It should clean up that text that distorts everything. A new Constitution can not be made in haste. Only be approved after a national debate, which can take years but that is the only way to fertilize the desert of public space left by Ben Ali.
"We speak today in Tunis a government of national salvation vocabulary a little reminiscent of the French Revolution. But the opposition, both legal opposition represented in the pseudo-parliament of the regime as illegal party-has a very low level. Contrasts with the quality of opponents that come directly from the civil society and engaged in different movements, trade union activists of the General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT), bar associations, human rights defenders. There is a real contradiction between these two faces of the opposition, especially as this unprecedented move has not generated yet charismatic figure who could embody.
"We face a political landscape devastated. The situation is reminiscent of Eastern Europe at the time of the collapse of communism. The figure of Mohamed Bouazizi (who blew himself up last December 17 in the town of Sidi Bouzid) is similar to that of the young Czechoslovak Jan Palach, who burned to protest the Soviet invasion of his country in August 1968. But if we have our Jan Palach, we need our Vaclav Havel and Lech Walesa our (...)
"As for the Islamists, we must recognize that played no role in the movement that overthrew the dictatorship of Ben Ali. No one saw protests in Sidi Bouzid, the starting point of the revolt, nor appeared in the streets when the educated middle classes and Francophone joined the protests. Only live reports from Al Jazeera consistently give the word. That could perhaps help them return to the political arena. The concern in this regard is palpable among young people in the blogosphere that were the first to go into battle.
"No I, however, need to be frightened too. The rejection of radical Islam is strong in many sectors of Tunisian society. Anyway this problem is not solved with prohibitions and with the violence of a police state, but democratic dialogue, confrontation of ideas. Only if you continue to use their arms and struggling for violence will be treated as rebels. I hope that the Tunisian Islamists may evolve as they did in Turkey. Despite its ambiguities, the Party for Justice and Development Party (AKP, for its acronym in Turkish), which is in power, ended up accepting democracy.
"Before, it I confess, I was a secular fundamentalist. I evolved to understand they can not impose secularism and democracy from above and force. Freedom is a natural right. "
This notice was taken of the following website: http://www.proceso.com.mx/rv/modHome/ detalleImpreso/153196
Protests in Egypt now in Tunisia.
The same ingredients that led to the recent uprising exploded Tunisian protests in Egypt against the regime of President Hosni Mubarak, who has spent three decades in power . The message has spread like wildfire over the Internet, "January 25, Revolution Day on torture, poverty, corruption and unemployment." Protesters took to the streets of Cairo and other cities to demand democratic reforms and progress of Mubarak . In some of the protests, the police attacked the demonstrators with tear gas and water pressure. In others, the riot police, came as the different gears, the went away to adjacent streets and allow the passage of the demonstrators, something unusual in recent history, in which police often fail to yield positions. The protests, called to this day in the country by opposition groups also called for the repeal of emergency law in force since 1981, following the assassination of President Anwar el-Sadat by radical Islamists. That same year, Mubarak came to power, which has since exercised with an iron hand and on the basis of a sham democracy. The songs in the demonstrations have been directed as much against the leader of 82 years and his son Gamal, who many suspect will succeed his father. This notice was taken of the following website:
http://www.infobae .com/mundo/558516-100891-0-Las-protestas-de-T% C3% Banez,-now-in-Egypt
Tunisia Egypt and Yemen formed a line of protest .
Three Arab states formed an axis of popular protest against the incorruptibility of their political elites. The wave that propelled the Tunisians did not leave the country, but came through Egypt on Thursday to Yemen, where the protests turned out to be even more numerous.
More than 10,000 people called by the main parties and opposition groups gathered in four squares of the capital to demand that the Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, fails to appear for re-election. The opposition itself was consolidated in a joint committee to conduct a series of acts of disagreement and disobedience, unless the authorities hear them.
"The president of Tunisia came after 20 years in power, 30 years for Yemen is more than enough," denounced the banners and the spokespersons of the crowd that was filed with the University of Sanaa, the Yemeni capital. Historically speaking, the term in the power of Zine el Abidine Ben Ali in the North African country risen to the middle of January was 23 years. Ali Abdullah Saleh, who ruled the republic of North Yemen from 1978 until its unification with South Yemen in 1990, has since held the national presidency without alternation, so that this is their year thirty-third in the high since state.
As in Tunis, Sanaa security forces have failed to pacify, for weeks, the student protests, but repeatedly dissolved some spontaneous rallies and not many in the district of campus. Immediate pretext for the activation of anti-government movement Parliament served hearing at which aired the amendments to the Constitution to open a seasoned politician Saleh East 68 years-the way to the presidency for life.
The Executive ruled Yemen until that plays on the nation's popular revolt Tunisian type. He said his country "is Tunis different: there is political pluralism and democracy in a peaceful framework. " "The Interior Minister Mutahar Rashad al-Masri, vowed in an interview quoted by the EFE news agency not to use force against demonstrators, always" act within the law. "
entered Egypt on Thursday in another day of protests against the government of Hosni Mubarak, reserved the warming up of the fighting for the next day, to be lively according to Moslem tradition. The diplomat of the European Union, Catherine Ashton, urged the Egyptian authorities to "fully respect and protect" the rights of its citizens to express their political aspirations through "peaceful demonstrations." But the problem is that violence also weighs each day to the streets of Cairo and not just because of the police.
At least, according to experts Orientalists, the popular uprising, ended some prospect that President Hosni Mubarak delivers the most power to his son Gamal. Although both have been outspoken Mubarak and the likely succession to the presidency of the country, rumors about such a possibility could be one of the main factors of the current popular explosion.
Tunisia's own source of the wave of 'popular anger, "was called a general strike Thursday to protest against the continuance of the Cabinet of President Abidine fugitive. It began in this very region of Sidi Buzid, where the young salesman Mohamed Buazizi blew himself on fire, giving rise to a strong social protest.
This notice was taken of the following website:
http://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/internacional/issue_19864.html
Tunisia Egypt and Yemen formed an axis of protest.
The Libyan dictator always relied on his small-tribe Qathathfa to join the ranks of military units and to ensure their safety and the government, but experts say that many believe will be sufficient shielding to stay in power. 
