Self Initiated Post:Egyptian uprising

Self Initiated Post:Egyptian uprising

Recently, you may have heard the news about the Egypt Uprising which has sparked a huge amount of interest from other countries. It is also known as the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, whereby over millions of protesters from different backgrounds gathered and demanded the overthrow of the corrupt Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as well as the democratic reform of the political system. The people were extremely unhappy with the inequality, where the income gap between the rich and the poor was extremely huge, as well as the lack of free elections and freedom of speech .However, majority of the people did not dare to protest due to the police repression and brutality.

What makes this event so widely reported is probably due to the scale of the event as well as how the people were courageous enough to protest against such a corrupted and powerful government. Also, what makes this protest so unique is that social networking sites such as twitter and facebook were used to mobilize the protesters and was what sparked the revolution.

The protest is still ongoing but the president Hosni Mubarak and the military controlling the Egyptian Government has finally stepped down, which has given a glimmer of hope to people living in countries where the government is corrupted and oprresive, and has influenced demonstrations in other Arab countries such as Yemen, Bahrain and Jordan. This could ultimately cause a revolution in which many countries would have a democratic reform and corruption would decrease by a huge amount.