Jasmine Revolution

There is one thing common these days in the middle east world when you wake up everyday and open your morning paper sipping a cup of streaming tea is the Uprisings in one country or the other. In some the rulers finally give in and in some rulers fight till the last, but one thing is common, its not after some bloody strikes from either side for those who want change and for those who don't. The main thing is life should be paralysed.

Sometimes the un-disputed leaders till then try to lure away protesters by offering carrots or other freebies, but most of the time that also seems to fail. So the last alternative is the un-glorious exit. Here also one thing is important, on which side the Military is. If the military is on the rulers side, the common mass finds it more difficult but if the military is on the public side, the ruler is left with no chance but to accede to the demands of the common mass and if he is lucky enough can escape from his country with a few million dollars, gold and other costliest luxuries.

The people of the Arab world are all trying for their tryst with democracy after living in oppressive dictatorships for decades. People are fed up with dictators who just accumulate all the wealth they can and with rising food prices, corruption and inefficiency. It all started in a small country of Tunisia a moderate Islamic nation in December 2010 Inside the historic popular upheaval that began in Tunisia and after the bloody successful campaign for a month after which its president finally resigned, the rulers of the Arab world started panicking with ominous signs in the horizon. And USA remains a silent spectator in all this perhaps from their past experiences. Some are trying to lure their citizens with lots of freebies but it too little too late.

Although the Tunisian revolution received less media coverage in the entire world but Egypt really brought the focus to the Middle east uprising. Egypt had shown that peaceful mass movements against regime changes till today is possible without using muscle power, but to the advantage of Egypt was that it own military was also backing the common public, So after repeated requests from their president going un-heard he had no other choice but to flee his palace.

But as the world we live in not everything is possible without violence it was now turn of Libya to come to fore-font to oust their tyrant ruler and no-body perhaps expected it to be this bloody as it happened. With president Gaddafi using his military to bombard and airstrike opponent and public hotspots, the world could not have been a mute spectator. The Western forces combined to teach Gaddafi the lesson, in the language he better understands and the fight goes on...

Similary other smaller Arab nations like Yemen, Somalia, Syria and others are also trying their way to topple their un-challenged governments. It is also sending tremors to other non-democratic governments and China being one of them. It needs to be seen how these countries cope with new regimes and how it shapes up as we have seen from earlier examples of Nepal and other countries, real Democracy is still alluring them. Only time will tell the success of the new found democracies.

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