The anti-Sudanese movement Omar al-Bashir and Algerian Abdelaziz Bouteflika have shown that the desire for change in the Middle East and North Africa has not been eliminated by the fate of the Arab revolutions established in 2011 of different fate and endings, the Le Monde newspaper reported.
Journalist Benjamin Bart said in an article in the newspaper that Egyptians nostalgic for Tahrir square, the focus of their revolution in 2011, have not slept very much in recent days, and remained immersed in social networks follow their Sudanese neighbors minute by minute, and give them advice and encouragement.
Echo Spring
Bart said that these tips are fed by a sad experience experienced by Egyptians who have trusted their army, after he accelerated the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, the protesters abandoned Tahrir Square, paving the way for the return of the old regime after two and a half in the person of General Abdul Egypt's president, Fateh al-Sisi, ruled today with an iron fist.
This dialogue between time and space between the former rebels in Cairo and the current demonstrators in Khartoum highlights the thread that links the movement in Sudan and the movement in Algeria to the series of the Arab revolutions of 2011.
"The second wave of the Arab Spring, the anti-Bashir movement and the anti-Bouteflika movement, proves once again that the aspiration for change in the Middle East and North Africa has not been undermined by the very varied and often tragic tragedies that led to the Arab revolutions of 2011.
Deep rejection of tyranny
"This indicates that the rejection of autocratic regimes, no matter how frustrating they are in some countries, is still as deep as ever, and therefore it is important to turn back," said Tariq Mitri, director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut. The illusion that when Arabs fail in their revolutions they will be nostalgic for the old order. "
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Apart from Tunisia, which has managed to develop a relatively comprehensive political system, the countries covered by the protest movements eight years ago have ended, either to the civil war of Syria, Yemen and Libya or to the return of dictatorship such as Egypt and Bahrain, he says, adding that these skills were not enough To dissuade Algerians and Sudanese from going out into the streets to try to regain control of their own destiny.
"The Arab world is facing historical turmoil because the old regime that dominated during the past 60 years has reached the end of the race without addressing the structural causes of the 2011 crises," the writer quoted political analyst Maha Yahya, director of the Carnegie Endowment office in Beirut, as saying. straight ahead".
In a comparison between the "Arab Spring", the writer said that the Algerians 'rejection of the fatal error committed by Bouteflika's nomination for a fifth term echoed the Egyptians' rejection of Hosni Mubarak's presidency of his son Gamal and turning their country into a republican monarchy. Turned into a demand for freedom, justice and peace, much like the anger of the Tunisians after the shopkeeper Mohammed Bouazizi set fire to himself after being humiliated by the police.
Political infertility
In the past two years, many angry explosions have indicated that the fires of 2011 were still under ash - as happened in a region historically marginalized by the authorities in the Moroccan countryside, for example, as occurred in Basra in southern Iraq, an area Suffer from neglect and corruption of the state and long for autonomy.
"The Arab world has been living for 20 years in an atmosphere of revolutions because of the absolute political infirmity it faces," says Peter Harling, director of the Beirut-based Sinabis Analytical Center. "The spring of Beirut in 2005 and the victory of Hamas The surprise of the Palestinian Legislative Council was a warning sign of the outbreak of the Arab Spring in 2011.
Systems have nothing to offer
"The geopolitical shocks of the time, like the war in Iraq in 2003 and the second war in Lebanon in 2006 were distracting, but in 2010 when this tension subsided, the governance issues naturally prevailed, and whatever happens, the revolutions will return as long as the regimes The political has nothing to offer, and the revolutionaries may try even Satan. "
The author concluded that the return to tyranny anywhere will not guarantee stability at all, and that except for the rich Gulf states and Yemen and Syria torn apart by the civil war, there is no immune to the time of revolutionary fever, and concluded that the success of retired brigade Khalifa Haftar in Libya means depriving it The country has an experience similar to what happened in Tunisia.