Friday, February 18, 2011

The domino effect is amplified in the Middle East

One month after the departure of the dictator of Tunisia Ben Ali and a few days after the fall of the regime of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, several protests earn authoritarian regimes in the Middle East. The night of Wednesday to Thursday was particularly lethal for the opponents came to demonstrate to demand democratic reforms.

Iraq has joined the countries in anger, an event which caused one death and dozens injured in Kurdistan. In Benghazi, the second largest city and heart of the dispute, six protesters were killed in clashes between police and anti-Gaddafi demonstrators. The question of whether the revolt would spread to the capital remains.

Thursday, hundreds of supporters of the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, gathered in Tripoli for now deserted by opposition demonstrators. According to the Ministry of Health, three people were killed and one hundred ninety-five were injured during the assault. Many people who spent the night on the Place de la Perle testify that the riot police attacked the protesters suddenly, making particular use of tear gas but also, according to the opposition, rubber bullets and bullet fragmentation.

Of Bahrainis, mainly from the Shiite majority, manifest since Monday to demand political and social reforms in the kingdom ruled by a Sunni ruling family. A member of the Shiite opposition announced that Al-Wefaq, the main Shiite bloc, would leave Parliament. The foreign ministers of Gulf Cooperation Council must hold a special meeting Thursday evening in Manama.

In Sanaa, the demonstrators, mostly students, estimated at about two thousand people, were attacked as they leave the campus by supporters of General People Congress (GPC), armed with clubs and stones. Witnesses said supporters of GPC also fired live ammunition. Fifteen protesters were injured and ten supporters of the GIC.

Young demonstrators say they do not support the corrupt regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh or LTU. Yemen is also facing a Shiite rebellion in the north and a separatist movement increasingly violent in the South. Le Monde. en

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