N. AFRICA AND M. EAST
FONTE.ANSA.IT
The revolt against regimes
Everything 'began with the' sacrifice 'of a salesman Tunisia fruit
The young peddler Bouzizi Mohamed, and that 'on fire last December 17 in Sidi Bouzid in protest at living conditions, poverty', the frustration that the regime of former President Ben Ali had forced the Tunisians. And that look too little convincing of the dictator came to his bedside he had done the rest. The 'revolt of jasmine' game was so '. But soon there was talk of potential
domino effect, already 'emulations with the first: in Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Egypt, day after day men set fire to protest. Then the protests in Jordan and to the 'boundaries' of the Arab world, Yemen, where demonstrators have called for the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in power for thirty years, he finally promised not to reapply.
Confirmation that you will never go 'back had arrived shortly after, April 25. While the Tunisians, without 'president-dictator, still shouting in the streets''DEGAGE''or''out''from the Interim Government all men bound to the old regime, even the streets of Cairo, Alexandria, Suez , were filled with demonstrators. Suddenly, the eyes of the world, Tunisia and 'extended to the whole area: the unthinkable happened when Ben Ali, who had 23 years' reign' with an iron fist, surrounded by hatred family wife Leila Trabelsi , was forced to flee 14 January.
A 'revolution',''the first of the Arab world,''someone said. A wish or a prophecy? The fact is that in less than a month later, under the pressure of the square today and 'dropped another Rais, those considered the most' solid of all. The idea that their small Tunisia, 10 million people in all, has been''copied''from the great Egypt, with its 80 million inhabitants and its geopolitical weight in the heart of the Middle East, proud of the Tunisian people: ''We gave them the courage, initiative, motivation,''said today moved to Tunis in celebration. ''The Fall of Mubarak and 'the success of our revolution.''
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