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Super Tuesday is the "Day of Wrath" in Egypt
Video of demonstrators clashing with police in Egypt
by Joseph Ernest January 25, 2011
Newscast Media CAIRO Egypt -- The uprising in Tunisia that ousted former president Ben Ali, will soon be felt in Egypt of Tuesday. Protestors have referred to it as the "Revolution Day," and has largely been organized over the Web. Shopkeepers have been warned to keep their shops closed due to the uncertainty of what might occur during the demonstrations. The Egyptian government, under Hosni Mubarak seems to be prepared and plans to concentrate its forces in Cairo, the capital city.
Concerned about their human rights, poverty and oppression, Egyptians used Facebook as a tool to unite themselves and already have over 91,000 who have pledged on their Facebook page to attend the demonstrations.
In an interview published by the state-owned paper al Ahram, Egypt's interior minister Habib el-Adli said, "I tell the public that this Facebook call comes from the youth. Youth street action has no impact and security is capable of deterring any acts outside the law."
Although there will be a strong and heavily armed police presence, demonstrators plan to use their cell phones and cameras to capture any police brutality and broadcast it over the Web.
Meanwhile, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, fearful of the ever-growing voices of opposition has called for a national televised debate with the opposition, on things that matter to the people Yemen. The Yemen Observer published the president's plea, who said Yemen is not like Tunisia.
"Come up for a TV debate on my program and your programs. Yemen is a country of freedom and democracy, but we warn of chaos and demagogy. Yemen is not like Tunisia, where people were not allowed to enter mosques without IDs," said Saleh.
The question now is whether these demonstrations will spread to the Sub-Saharan nations known as Black Africa, or whether they'll only be confined to Arab nations in the north. Something that even the most intelligent dictators fail to realize (which is actually and oxymoron to call a dictator intelligent), is that freedom is one of the basic human needs, and once suppressed, even the most docile individual can be forced to act out of the norm. That's the reason why when dictatorial regimes are toppled, those same dictator flee into exile, to experience the very freedoms they had foolishly denied those who were being oppressed. Add Comments>>
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