Egypt: Success of a Summer Revolution!

Egyptian army ousts Mursi and scraps constitution 

President Mohammad Mursi has failed to meet the demands of the Egyptian people,”

Abdel Fattah al-Sissi said in a televised address to the nation. [Al Arabiya] 

"It took Egyptians three decades to remove Hosni Mubarak from power and only three 
days to topple President Morsi, his successor, and the country's first democratically 
elected president. [Al Arabiya]

Egyptian Army announces Supreme Constitutional Court, Adly Mansour, to be sworn in 
as interim president on Thursday. [Al Jazeera]
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Many will call what just happened a 'coup', yet the army 
here has expressed the willingness of millions of Egyptians.
The future will tell us how to call this event.
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On the other hand, Egypt will be a great nation... 
when Egyptian men learn to respect women.

- In Egypt, it is always the woman’s fault I Bikya News 
- Egypt: Epidemic of Sexual Violence | Human Rights Watch 
- Where are sexual assaults happening in Egypt? I Harass Map 
- Egyptian women fear rising tide of sexual assault as Tahrir crowds grow | Guardian 
- Sexual assaults reported in Cairo I CNN 
- Press release by 20 rights organizations I One year into Mohamed Morsi’s term: 
Manifold abuses and the systematic undermining of the rule of law I EIPR 
- From Mubarak to the Muslim Brotherhood: Sexual torture as a weapon I Mosireen 
Collective.

[Click and watch the HRW video]

July 3, 2013) -- Egyptian anti-sexual harassment groups confirmed that mobs sexually assaulted and 
in some cases raped at least 91 women in Tahrir Square over four days of protests beginning on June 
30, 2013 amid a climate of impunity. Human Rights Watch has long documented the problem of sexual 
assault in Cairo's streets and particularly at protests. A new video highlights the stories of women who 
have been attacked, in some cases as recently as January 2013.

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Col. GADDAFI... barks no more.

Following a last UN-CNT assault, this morning, Sirte
is freed and another dictator's career came to an end.

In Benghazi and Tripoli, crowds gathered in the streets to start celebrating
the death of Colonel Gaddafi.



[Photo: Philippe Desmazes]
NTC fighters celebrate in the coastal city of Sirte on October 20, 2011 after the final bastion of
resistance by forces loyal strongman Muammar Gaddafi fell to fighters of the new regime.
Gaddafi was killed on October 20, when new regime forces launched a final assault in his hometown.

euronews breaking news today:
- Gaddafi captured close to Sirte
- The last moments of Mouammar Gaddafi
- Gaddafi's death rises problems and questions
- Jubilant Libyan fighters parade Gaddafi's body
- What has become of Gaddafi's missing sons

Al Jazeera takes a look back at Gaddafi's reign, in pictures... HERE.


Col. Gaddafi's 42-year career :
- September 1st 1969, access to power...
- Oct. 20th 2011, dead of a Mad Dog.



BBC: Gaddafi reported final movements.
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More PPG posts on Gaddafi...

Are you desperately seeking G@tto ?

Well, he's virtually moved in Middle East.
However, you can keep his trail...
on !


All the rest is silence, almost.

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2011 in Tunisia - the Great Expectations

While freedom is a right, it still requires endless human sacrifices.

On December 17, 2010, an unemployed Tunisian man, Mohamed
Bouazizi, aged 26, from Sidi Bouzid, in southern Tunisia, set himself
on fire to protest against joblessness, sparking a popular uprising
against the government. Two more suicides followed, spurring protests
across several other Tunisian cities. The social movement - initiated
by lawyers, journalists, and labor unions - demanded more work opportunities and reform
of the government of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. [Global Voices on Line...]
15 Jan - Saudi Arabia: Fleeing, Tunisian Ex-President Ben Ali Lands in KSA
16 Jan - Arab World: After Tunisia, Who's Next?
16 Jan - Tunisia: Fears of Insecurity Overshadow Joys of Freedom
19 Jan - Middle East: A Closer Look at Tunisia's Uprising
21 Jan - Algeria: Algerians salute the courage of the Tunisian people
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Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia - Mohamed Bouazizi spent his whole life on a
dusty, narrow street here, in a tiny, three-room house with a concrete
patio where his mother hung the laundry and the red chilis to dry.
By the time Mr. Bouazizi was 26, his work as a fruit vendor had earned
him just enough money to feed his mother, uncle and five brothers and
sisters at home. He dreamed about owning a van. [The NY Times...]
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What drives an ordinary man to burn himself to death?
Yousef al-Qaradawi, a prominent and influential Egyptian cleric who lives in Qatar and
has a TV show on Al Jazeera, spoke sympathetically about Mr. Bouazizi and others
who attempted suicide, saying that they were driven to it by social injustice and that
the responsibility for their deaths lay with the rulers of their countries. [The NY Times...]

- Analysts say several self-immolation cases or attempted acts in Egypt, now numbering
more than a dozen, seem to be driven by broadly similar complaints to those that drove
Tunisians to the streets and toppled their president, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. [Reuters...]
- A man has died after setting himself on fire in Saudi Arabia's south-western region of
Jizan, officials have said.
- In Mauritania, a man who set himself on fire also died in hospital on Saturday. [BBC...]
- In Algeria, several towns including the capital experienced days of rioting, provoked by
a jump in food prices. Two people died and hundreds were injured during clashes between
rioters and police, officials said. At least four men set themselves on fire in provincial towns
in the past week. [Reuters...]
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Mr. Bouazizi may yet provoke more fiery deaths across the Middle East
if the revolution he helped spark is seen as successful.