Thursday, January 27, 2011

"THE ERA OF MONARCHICAL AND DICTATORSHIP GOVERNMENTS IN THE ARAB WORLD IS FALLING APART"

The Tunisian revolution that removed their country's brutal ruler from power is spreading like the unabated wave of change in the Arab world. For the last three days, Egyptian youths from all walks of life have being protesting all over their country and calling on their President Hosni Mubarak that has ruled the nation as a dictator for 30 years to step down. More protests  are slated for tomorrow by the leading Islamic opposition party in Egypt. Mohamed ElBaradei, the Egyptian Nobel laureate and opposition leader, is returning on Thursday to his agitated and restless homeland, his brother told CNN.

This morning, thousands of Yemenis took to the streets in their country’s capital and other regions on Thursday to demand a change of government, in demonstrations that organizers said were inspired by protests in Tunisia that toppled the president there according to the reports by the New York Times newspaper.

At least 10,000 protesters led by opposition members and youths activists gathered at Sana University and around 6,000 more elsewhere in the Yemeni capital of Sana, according to local news media reports coming out of this troubled Arab nation. The nation's dictator President Ali Abdallah Saleh has ruled this impoverished nation with iron hands for over 30 years now.

Reports coming in from the media sources and the local journalists on ground in Yemen indicated that the protesters chanted slogans against Mr. Saleh, a strongman who for more than 30 years has ruled a fractured country beset by a rebellion in the north and secessionists in the south. Tunisia and Egypt more stable countries with large middle classes and wide access to the Internet, Yemen is among the poorest countries in the Middle East.

The Arab World is about to be free from the hands of these sit-tight brutal and corrupt dictators that prevented developments in the Middle East for the last 30 or more years. These dictators see governance as a means of livelihood, family ownership and personal enrichment at the expense of the millions in poverty in their nations.

The revolution in the Internet Technology and the recent advances in social networking on the Internet will continue to educate and empowers the Arab peoples with the knowledge, forum and mobilization that they will need to fight against these dictators and for their freedom.

The much awaited change in the Arab World may have finally come. The people led revolution was successful in Tunisia. This gave birth to the current and the similar one in Egypt against Hosni Mubarak despite his government crackdown on peaceful protesters and closing down access to the Facebook and the Twitter. Now this fire of change is now in Yemen, the monarchies of the six Gulf Arab nations, Jordan, Morocco and Qatar may be the next targets.

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