An Egyptian proverb says: "I can bite the heart, but not bread." Maximum defines perfectly the feeling of the Arab people and have been very aware for decades of dictators governing the 22 states. Forget forced into exile to Tunisian President Ben Ali. And there are many who predict black expectations for the rest of North African autocrats with the Egyptian leader, Hosni Mubarak, the first of the list.The spark that ignited the revolt in Tunisia, the immolation of Boazizi Mohamed, 26, has caught on in the other countries of the region. A wave of suicide to the Bonze, a reflection of that act, touring Africa, from Algeria to Egypt, through Mauritania. An Egyptian lawyer of 25 years died on Tuesday after immolate after four years without employment.
The increasing scarcity and the meager salary, plus the high rate of unemployment, especially among young people, are the common denominator of these states with rulers in perpetuity (backed by the West), who have seen the first head to roll. The Egyptian government has chosen to put on blinders and ruled that the crisis will affect Tunis.
"Every country has its particular circumstances and, (...) and it is very difficult to compare," he said on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hossam Zaki. In addition, downplayed the six immolation of this week, stressing that the suicide claims a missing daughter, delays in pension payment, the closing of a restaurant or despair at not finding employment, were private and all suffered from mental illness.
Analysts, however, see these actions as a sign of rejection to the Government which, if any, have frozen energy increases when considering a price increase would not be accepted at this time. The land of the Nile is used to spontaneously react to crises, and immolation in front of Parliament are a sign that something is moving under the feet of Pharaoh.
Egyptian blogger Hossam Hamalawy stresses that the "place of choice for suicide is very symbolic." He adds: "The riots are not activists but citizens. We must not forget the revolution of the hungry in 1977, nor the bread crisis of 2008." Reasons abound. In the last year the Egyptian people has nearly doubled and even tripled the price of staple foods.
In addition, 2010 ended with a rigged parliamentary elections in flagrant, where the ruling National Democratic Party swept the other groups. The Muslim Brotherhood, until then the main opposition force a fifth of the seats, or a deputy failed. A month earlier, more than a thousand of its members were arrested.
Excesses with the ghost of Islam as an excuse. The whisper of protest should not come to Western ears Mubarak. The rais was shelved the slight feeling of freedom that the Egyptians had lived the last five years, with an eye on the presidential election this year. An election which, 83, could be presented for the umpteenth time, if not will the power to his son Gamal.
Blocked democratic means, the Egyptians have run out of ways to demand change. Mohamed ElBaradei, former director of the International Atomic Energy Egyptian opposition, said he still hopes that the revolution is made of "orderly" and not "Tunisian style." A stance that many activists criticize because it loses an opportunity to overthrow the regime, not encourage them to join the mass protests called for next week in response to the "desire for change", according to the diplomat, has the Egyptian people.
It also noted the Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa on Monday stressed that "democracy and development must go hand in hand." But did not say from whom.
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