You are in the 195th Witness Revolution diary, bearing witness to pro-democracy movements in North Africa, the Middle East and beyond. We aim here to simply report, from as many reliable worldwide resources as possible, on the successes, challenges or failures of the brave people striving against oppression for representative democracy with civil and human rights. One small bit of assurance that they do not strive in obscurity.
TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS
YEMEN
Security forces sacked Freedom Square (Taiz), setting fire to and bulldozing tents with sleeping non-violent protesters, then trashing the local hospital. Perhaps a better use of that force would have been applied to stave off the violent fundamentalists (who are NOT Al Qaeda) in Zinjibar?
Fire in Taiz Square
The link has many photos & videos of the devastation in Freedom Square. In this video you can see firing from or into the hotel in the square and the start of the flames in the tents the protesters were living in.
30 Martyrs, over 200 wounded when security forces storm Freedom Square (graphic photos at the link)
Long live the city of Taiz, the night of bloody, following the storming gunmen from the bullies and the security forces to Liberty Square, committed a brutal massacre, not yet clear, all features, but preliminary information suggests the fall of more than 30 martyrs, and hundreds injured by live bullets, and poison gas.
At the link above, you'll see scenes in the hospital where they are trying to treat the wounded. Take a look at what the security forces did to the hospital. Note that it is now devoid of people.
SYRIA
Throughout Syria they defied government forces and were out en masse to protest with renewed vigor in response to the torture and murder of 13-year old Hamza al-Khateeb. The government responded with bullets. Meanwhile, Syrian ex-pats and some of the organizers of the protests are meeting in Turkey to try and formulate "coordinate the democratic effort" to gain international support for ending Baathist rule in Syria. They say they are not quite ready for a Transitional Council and will have people from inside the Syrian demonstrations involved in their planning. One of our own, InAntalya, will be there. We hope to help get reports out to you.
“People are really furious about what happened to Hamza and it is another indication that the secret police and authorities are criminals that cannot be trusted to carry out any reforms,” said Al Jazeera's source.
"It was the people of Daraa who started this revolution and the people of Daraa will not stop. Despite their anger, people are still insisting on facing this barbarianism with peaceful protests. Despite the tears in our eyes we are facing them with smiles on our faces, because we know we are right."
Trying to get two young people to medical help, identify them and document crimes.
A message for Syria:
google translation:
Dear martyrs .. For which oversaw the wombs of mothers made you .. For the purer blood watered the land of the country Ashraf ... Freedom of a smile tried to kill her .. .. From the throats of chanted for freedom and tried withheld .. For every child who has lost his father .. For every mother longed for her children into contact with ... For every Syrian and injustice Schmidt blows back .. For you, O Syria .. Will not shut up my right and my freedom .. Will not shut up about the corruption or injustice .. .. Will not shut up about the blood Chdaiy ... I swear by Almighty God .. To lift up the voice of freedom .. Before the dry blood of our martyrs and the tears of our mothers .. I swear by Almighty God .. Will recognize the Freedom .. And keep on Syria .. Free .. Honest .. Raised the head of his father
And God to witness what we say
LIBYA
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GENERAL ANALYSIS
(h/t JustJennifer 5/30)World leaders pledge $40 billion to bolster 'Arab Spring'
World leaders vowed to put more money behind emerging democratic governments in North Africa, announcing plans for $40 billion in aid and support from wealthy nations as well as international development agencies.
The pledge came at the conclusion of the Group of 8 international summit in France at which President Obama exhorted other leaders to provide economic assistance and debt forgiveness to strengthen new democracies in Egypt and Tunisia and to encourage popular movements elsewhere.
ALGERIA
(h/t Dibsa 5/23) - London praises Algerian reform talks
LONDON, May 23 (UPI) -- Algeria is commended for the start of negotiations on political reform in the country, the British foreign minister for North African affairs said
(h/t Dibsa 5/23) - Algeria health unions end strike
Algiers - Algeria's two main health care unions ended a week-long strike on Monday after government assurances on salaries and work conditions.
BAHRAIN
(h/t jnhobbs 5/30)Bahrain Shi'ite leader says backs royal family
The leader of Bahrain's main Shi'ite opposition party said on Sunday his goal was to help bring political reform, rejecting accusations of taking orders from Iran or seeking to install Shi'ite religious rule.
Sheikh Ali Salman, head of the opposition group Wefaq, said his party supported the Al Khalifa family as rulers and wanted to help the government with constitutional reforms.
(h/t JustJennifer 5/30)Will Bahrain's Arab Spring bear fruit?
There is a coin that you can still find circulating in Bahrain, although it is no longer minted.
On one side it bears the image of the monument that once stood on the Pearl Roundabout, focus of the anti-government demonstrations in the spring. So, it is no longer minted.
You know a government is in trouble when it is scared of the coinage. The monument itself was bulldozed when the protestors were dispersed, violently, in March. Therefore, in the mentality of autocracy, the coins should no longer exist.
(h/t JustJennifer 5/30)Bahrain Sunni says opposition must change leaders
Bahrain's opposition must change its leadership for the divided Gulf Arab state to move on with political reconciliation after crushing a pro-democracy movement led by majority Shi'ites, a Sunni cleric said on Saturday.
Sheikh Abdullatif Al-Mahmoud said the democracy movement, which began in February when protesters inspired by uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt occupied a roundabout in Manama, had been hijacked by Shi'ite opposition leaders with a sectarian agenda who were in contact with Iran's clerical leadership.
Mahmoud led a team of Sunni negotiators coordinating with Crown Prince Sheikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa in talks with the opposition days before Saudi troops entered Bahrain to help the government break up the protest movement and arrest its leaders in mid-March.
BURKINA FASO
(h/t JustJennifer 5/30)Protesting Burkina Faso soldiers fire into air
Soldiers in Burkina Faso have taken part in further protests, firing into the air during the night to press their demands for the payment of allowances.
Residents of the north-eastern town of Dori said at least three people were injured by stray bullets.
Shooting was also reported in the towns of Kaya, Tenkodogo and Koupela.
COTE D'IVOIRE
(h/t Dibsa 5/26 ) - UN says 1,000 died in western I.Coast during feud
ABIDJAN — More than 1,000 people were killed in western Ivory Coast during the five-month crisis that followed a disputed presidential election, the UN mission in the country announced Thursday.
(h/t Dibsa 5/26 ) - The politics of human rights in Ivory Coast
An Amnesty International report on Ivory Coast has said both sides in the country's recent political and military crisis committed war crimes.
DJIBOUTI
(h/t UnaSpenser 4/14 ) -
JIBOUTI: WHY NO ONE CARESsection of article which covers pro-democracy movements throughout Africa
Whilst the world was watching Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt and Libya, Djibouti had an election on 8 April. With no opposition, a state-controlled media and no civil society movement, it was easy enough for President Omar Guelleh to change the constitution allowing him to run for a third term - thereby continuing 35 year rule by the same family. But this little dictatorship is strategically central to the US Africa Command (2,000 US troops are based here) and the NATO countries. Unlike in Libya, Djibouti's 1 million population can expect no support from the West in their small attempts to have a voice.
EGYPT
(h/t jnhobbs 5/30)Egypt activist summoned for criticizing military
A prominent Egyptian activist was summoned Monday for questioning by the country's military rulers over comments criticizing their human rights record.
Hossam el-Hamalawy, 33, said he was ordered to appear before military prosecutors Tuesday after he charged that the head of the military police responsible for reported abuses against activists, He spoke on a popular TV program on a private station. He said the TV presenter, Reem Maged, was also summoned for questioning.
(h/t JustJennifer 5/30)Egypt’s “second revolution”
Demonstrations last Friday in Egypt were among the largest since the revolutionary movement of workers and youth forced out the longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak on February 11. Hundreds of thousands gathered in the capital of Cairo and other cities to denounce the policies of the military government established after Mubarak’s downfall.
Among the slogans raised by the protesters was the call for a “second revolution.” Contained in this phrase is a critical understanding, namely that the fall of Mubarak three-and-a-half months ago has not solved the basic democratic and social aspirations of the mass protests.
IRAN
(h/t JustJennifer 5/12 ) - Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollahs
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may soon be ousted from office by the ayatollahs who control Iran. More importantly, there may be a split within the principal Iranian military/terrorist force that is destabilizing the regime.
This is not another popular uprising like the one that led to the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. But it may be related to the so-called "Arab spring" in an oddly Iranian way.
IRAQ
(h/t Dibsa 5/26) - Al-Sadr followers rally in Iraq against US troops
BAGHDAD – Militiamen and followers of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr led a massive rally on Thursday, marching in Baghdad in a show of force as Iraqi leaders weigh whether to keep U.S. troops in the country beyond the end of the year
(h/t Dibsa 5/25) - Iraq to fuel generators to head off power protests
BAGHDAD (AFP) – Iraq's government will provide free fuel to power generators nationwide throughout the scorching summer, it said on Wednesday, to try to head off another wave of protests over poor electricity supplies.
ISRAEL
(h/t Dibsa 4/21 ) - Israeli leftists call for Palestinian state
TEL AVIV (AFP) – Some 300 Israeli left-wingers, including prominent cultural leaders, gathered in Tel Aviv on Thursday to call for the Jewish state to embrace the creation of a Palestinian state.
The activists met to sign a petition, which is endorsed by 17 winners of the prestigious Israel Prize, in a symbolic ceremony in front of the building where the state of Israel was proclaimed on May 14, 1948.
The ceremony was met with anger by several dozen right-wing protesters who also gathered at the site and had to be kept away by a heavy police presence, an AFP photographer at the scene said
JORDAN
(h/t Dibsa 5/20) -
Jordanians want 'corrupt, oppressive' govt sacked
AMMAN (AFP) – Thousands of Jordanians demonstrated on Friday across the kingdom, calling for regime reforms as well as the sacking of what they called the "corrupt and oppressive" government
KUWAIT
(h/t Dibsa 5/25) - Kuwait warns activists over 'Day of Rage' demo
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) – Kuwait's Interior Minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Humoud Al-Sabah Wednesday issued a stern warning to youth activists planning a "Day of Rage" protest calling for the removal of the prime minister.
LEBANON
(h/t UnaSpenser 04/19 ) - Turkish envoy to Lebanon: Democracy will spread
Turkey's ambassador to Lebanon, Inan Ozyildiz, believes that despite the recent political uncertainty, all political actors in Lebanon are "engaging in dialogue," and expects democracy to take root in every country in the Arab world.
"Although every country in the region has its own characteristics and political history, the people of the Middle East have a common demand: Democracy," said Ozyildiz.
According to Ozyildiz, the Arab world's transition to democracy is late in coming. "These uprisings were kind of late, they should have started immediately after the end of the Cold War," said Ozyildiz.
LIBYA
(h/t JustJennifer 5/30)Over 100 Libyan army members defect from Gaddafi
Eight high-ranking Libyan army officers appeared in Rome on Monday saying they were part of a group of as many as 120 military officials and soldiers who had defected from Muammar Gaddafi's side in recent days.
The eight officers -- five generals, two colonels and a major -- spoke at a hastily-called news conference organised by the Italian government, which is one of a handful of countries that has recognized the Libyan rebel movement fighting Gaddafi as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people.
"What is happening to our people has frightened us," said one officer, who identified himself as General Oun Ali Oun.
(h/t JustJennifer 5/30)Zuma says Gaddafi ready for truce
Muammar Gaddafi is ready for a truce to stop the fighting in his country, the visiting South African president has said after meeting the Libyan leader, but he listed conditions set out by Gaddafi that have dashed previous ceasefire attempts.
South Africa's Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday that Gaddafi was ready to accept an African Union initiative for a ceasefire that would stop all hostilities, including NATO air strikes in support of rebel forces.
"He is ready to implement the road map," Zuma said.
Zuma said Gaddafi insists that "all Libyans be given a chance to talk among themselves" to determine the country's future, but rebels quickly rejected the offer.
(h/t Lawrence 5/30)Libya's Berbers seek their revenge on Qaddafi
Alongside their revolutionary flags, Libyan rebels have decorated this remote border post with a strange symbol: two half-circles facing apart, bisected by a single vertical line.
The symbol, a "z" in the alphabet of Libya's Amazigh minority, appears across North Africa as a badge of cultural identity.
But at the border post, other Amazigh letters also spell out a new allegiance.
RESOURCES:
A vision of a democratic Libya an 8-point plan from the National Transitional Council
The full text of UN Resolution 1970 on Libya.
The full text of UN Resolution 1973 on Libya.
President Obama's letter to Congress regarding commencement of operations in Libya. (h/t greenbird)
Al Jazeera Libyan live blog. (h/t jnhobbs)
UK Telegraph Libyan live blog. (h/t bee tzu)
BBC Libyan live blog found here. (h/t greenbird)
The New Yorker Dispatches from Libya. (h/t suejazz)
BBC's Libyan crisis mapped. (h/t phil S 33)
revolutionology is a blog from an American in Benghazi
MAURITANIA
(h/t dibsa 4/26) - Mauritanian police use teargas to break up protest
NOUAKCHOTT, April 25 (Reuters) - Security forces using teargas and batons dispersed several hundred anti-government protesters in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott on Monday, the most serious clash in the West African state for nearly two months.
MOROCCO
h/t ninkasi23 ) - Showdown in Morocco
Police violence in recent days has escalated. On May 15, peaceful demonstrators who wanted to protest in front of an alleged secret detention center in Temara (dubbed Guan-Temara by protesters) near the capital Rabat faced repression. A week later, anti-riot police systematically and violently disrupted peaceful gatherings in public squares. This may be the sign that the regime is shifting its attitude toward the street and taking a much more hardline stance. As with other Arab regimes, the makhzen faces a dilemma: if it clamps down hard on peaceful protesters, it risks loosing its reputation as a model of democratic reform in a region often perceived in the West as averse to the liberal ideals of democracy. If it loosens up, then it will have to face the challenge to its own existence posed by a determined and organized street.
(h/t ninkasi23 ) - Morocco Protests Leave Dozens Injured
In Casablanca, anti-riot police surrounded Idris El Harti Street in the Sbata neighbourhood, where demonstrators had planned to meet. About 35 people were wounded. Thirty members of the February 20 Movement, including five women, were arrested. Nevertheless, the demonstrators managed to gather at five different locations. According to organisers, more than 20,000 people confronted servicemen, forcing them to retract and advancing towards Idris El Harti Street. The two-hour march was later dispersed.
(h/t ninkasi23 ) - Moroccan rights watchdog defends protest crackdown
Asked whether the harsh police response amounted to a rights violation, Mohammed Essabbar, appointed in March by the king to serve as secretary general of the official watchdog organisation to investigate abuses, told Reuters on Tuesday: "Moroccan law lays down the legal conditions for demonstrations." "Demonstrators must apply for permission, including the route, the time, other details," he said. "The demonstrators did not respect the provision of this law."
(h/t ninkasi23 ) This is a link for a YouTube video featuring footage from the protests on 5/22. It is titled in Arabic which simply translates to "Repression and resistance May 22 Rabat".
http://youtu.be/...
OMAN
(h/t Dibsa 5/19) - The world's enduring dictators: Qaboos bin Said, Oman
This is an installment in the WorldWatch series, "The world's enduring dictators," inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt, in which CBSNews.com takes a look at the men who continue to rule their lands unimpeded by law. See a complete explanation of the series and a list of others profiledhere.
(h/t Dibsa 5/18) - Oman must charge or release detained protesters
The Omani authorities must say where and why they are holding some six people arrested during a recent peaceful protest in the capital Muscat, Amnesty International said today, as more than two dozen others faced trial on protest-related charges.
PALESTINE
(h/t Dibsa 5/20 ) - Palestinian protesters injured by Israeli fire in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – Two young Palestinians were moderately wounded in Gaza on Friday when Israeli troops opened fire at a protest near the border fence, a medical source said
QATAR
(h/t Dibsa 5/13) - Protests planned in Oman over failure to act on jobs pledge
MUSCAT Protest organisers in Oman were planning demonstrations outside the civil service offices in the capital yesterday, claiming the government has failed to fulfil its promise to create tens of thousands of jobs
SAUDI ARABIA
(h/t JustJennifer 5/30)Detained Saudi woman driver to be freed on bail
Saudi authorities decided Monday to free on bail Manal al-Sharif, who was detained for 10 days for breaking the ultra-conservative kingdom's ban on women driving, her lawyer said.
"We were informed today of the decision to free Manal on bail. The procedural steps towards her release are under way," Adnan al-Saleh told AFP, adding that he hoped the case would now be closed.
Sharif had called upon King Abdullah to release her, Saleh told AFP on Sunday after meeting his client in prison.
SYRIA
(h/t JustJennifer 5/30)Three killed as army enters central Syrian town
At least three civilians were killed on Monday when security forces entered the town of Talbiseh in central Syria to crush dissent against President Bashar al-Assad, a rights group said.
The deaths brought to 14 the number of civilians killed in the area around the city of Homs, north of Damascus, since troops and tanks surrounded towns and villages in the region on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Homs has seen some of the biggest demonstrations against Assad since protests broke out in southern Syria in March and spread across the country, posing the most serious threat to his 11-year rule.
(h/t JustJennifer 5/30)Syrian businessmen back opposition conference
Key business figures in Syria are aligning themselves with opposition groups before a conference in Turkey on Tuesday in a sign that Syria's traditionally pro-regime business elite may be beginning to break ranks with the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
About 300 opposition figures are expected to arrive in Antalya, southern Turkey, for the three-day Syrian Conference for Change, designed to establish dialogue between opposition groups with a view to establishing a transitional council.
However, as a bloody crackdown against anti-regime protests continued, with Syrian activists reporting troops had bombarded a town in the central province of Homs with artillery on Sunday, it is clear sharp divisions exist among the fledgling opposition.
(h/t Just Jennifer 5/30)Dorothy Parvaz: Inside Syria's secret prisons
I was standing in two fist-sized pools of smeared, sticky blood, trying to sort out why there were seven angry Syrians yelling at me. Only one of them - who I came to know as Mr Shut Up during my three days in a detention center, where so many Syrians 'disappeared' are being kept - spoke English.
Watching them searching my bags, and observing the set of handcuffs hanging from the bunk bed wedged behind the desk in the middle of the room, I guessed that I was being arrested - or, at the very least, processed for detention.
"Why are you doing this?" I asked.
"Shut up! SHUT UP!" said Mr Shut Up.
TUNISIA
(h/t Dibsa 5/26) - Tunisia's revolution short on economic know-how
TUNIS (Reuters) - The last traces of revolutionary graffiti near the Tunisian prime minister's office are still on the walls, but in Tunis' Belvedere district, shopkeeper Saleh is less than jubilant over his country's prospects post-upheaval
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
(h/t Dibsa 5/5 ) - FACTBOX-Political risks to watch in the United Arab Emirates
(Reuters) - As political upheaval sweeps through the Arab world, the federation of seven emirates remains one of two unaffected Gulf Arab states, in addition to Qatar.
The per capita incomes of the UAE and Qatar remain among the highest in the world -- eighth and third, respectively -- thanks to their relatively small populations and oil and gas wealth.
(h/t Dibsa 5/4 ) - UAE: Human rights officials condemn government crackdown
Human rights advocates decried what they called a “crackdown on civil society” in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday after authorities replaced the leadership of the country's teachers association, a well-established group that had called for democratic reforms, with government officials sympathetic to the administration.
“This attack on civil society is further proof that those in power in the UAE see anyone calling for reform as fair game,” Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director of the New York-based nonprofit organization Human Rights Watch, said in a Tuesday statement. “UAE authorities should immediately stop their hostile takeover of civil society and free the peaceful democracy activists.”
WESTERN SAHARA
(h/t Dibsa 5/17) - Killed in Western Sahara by a bomb shaped like a ball
Twenty years after a ceasefire brought a halt to a long-running conflict in Western Sahara, cluster bombs used by the Moroccan armed forces are still claiming victims - among them children attracted by their toy-like size and shape
YEMEN
(h/t JustJennifer 5/30)Fighting raises Yemen civil war fears
A tenuous truce declared a few days ago to end street fighting in the Yemeni capital between tribal groups and forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh has broken down, sending the country closer to the brink of civil war.
"The ceasefire agreement has ended," a government official said on Tuesday without giving further details.
The announcement came as overnight clashes in Sanaa killed many people and left dozens injured.
(h/t JustJennifer 5/30)Yemeni troops fire on protesters in Taiz
Yemeni troops fired live ammunition on protesters in the southern city of Taiz on Tuesday to suppress a rally seeking an end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's three decade-long reign, residents said.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or death.
Medical sources said at least 15 people have been killed and hundreds injured in a previous show of force by the government against the demonstrators earlier this week.
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Our Egyptian brethren articulated what people around the region are fighting for, though variations to the theme may exist from country to country. banner held by protesters and translated to English:
1 The departure of Mubarak
2 An end to the current Parliament
3 An end of the state of emergency
4 The creation of a national united government
5 A parliament elected by the people to modify the constitution and run the presidential elections
6 Put those responsible for the killings on trial
7 Put those responsible for stealing the country's money and other acts of corruption on trial
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