EGYPT CONTINUES TO RAGE

The protests in Tunisia started on a low key. Nobody expected then it would snowball into a massive movement forcing the President Zine-ul-Abidin-Ben-Ali to flee the country seeking refuge somewhere, at last the Saudi Arabian kingdom offering asylum out of sympathy.
Though a change of govt, a nominal change, took place in Tunisia that was not enough for the protests and massive violence to subside. Still Tunisia is fuming and drawing inspiration from Tunisian developments, Egyptian crisis too is snowballing. There too the protest movement started on a low key only for a short while, then the movement gathered momentum and with each passing day the violence is heating up and it has had its effects. The son and his family who was chosen to be the successor to Hosni Mubarak has fled the country.
Last Tuesday the protesters took to the streets and braved water canons, tear gas shells and batons. Barricades turned out to be the next target and riot police did their maximum to take on the protesters. In the meanwhile the violence had spread into the interior parts of the country demanding Mr.Mubarak to bow down before them effecting constitutional changes, eradicating grinding poverty and demanding an end to the massive unemployment. The dictatorial trait in the man hesitates to bend as of late now 74 persons have been done to death. The country as a whole is now under the army though they have not turned offensive.
Anyhow knowing that he will have to listen to the demands of citizens the post of Vice-President has been filled by swearing in the Intelligence Chief as a first step in the direction of a change over and appointing the Interior Minister as the Prime Minister. The 82-year old dictator since occupying the saddle is in no mood to vacate his post even in the face of massive violence.
The main opposition Muslim Brotherhood, the April 6 Movement, the most powerful head of the opposition, the nobel laureate and former chief of IAEA Muhammed Elbaradi in cohoot with the protesters have demanded Mubarak to come to terms with the realities the dictator is in no mood to listen.
US President Barack Obama has asked Mubarak to make effective changes and adopt a democratic path. US State Secretary Hilary Clinton too has demanded Mubarak to listen to the masses but for the consequent 6th day today Egypt continues to flare-up.
The Tunisian-inspired uprising, it seems is spreading to other nations in Arab world and it is reported that Jordan and Yemen have started fuming. The fundamental reasons being poverty, unemployment and dictatorial tendencies.
In the event of Arab world as a whole flaring up one by one, the consequences are something beyond our imagination.