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News Digest on Nonviolent Conflict News Digest on Nonviolent Conflict 18.02.2011 16:33 Find us on Facebook > What is Nonviolent Conflict? # 216 February 15, 2011 FEATURED ARTICLES EVENTS IN EGYPT Three key moments likely drove 15 February 2011: Egypt's military Anti-government protests spread to Iran, Bahrain and Yemen Iran: Opposition leaders should By: Jonathan S. Landay, Warren P. Strobel and Shashank Bengali, be tried and executed, hardline McClatchy Newspapers, February 15, 2011 lawmakers say "Tens of thousands of protesters faced baton-wielding security forces Monday in Bahrain, Yemen and Iran in what experts say may be Algerian protesters clash with shaping up as a pro-democracy wave ignited by the revolts that police as Egypt fervour spreads drove Egypt's and Tunisia's aging autocratic rulers from power. Read full article... CAMPAIGNS AND ACTIONS IN THE NEWS Egyptian army hijacking revolution, activists fear By: Jack Shenker, The Guardian, February 15, 2011 Poetry in the Egyptian uprising Egypt's revolution is in danger of being hijacked by the army, key political activists have warned, as concrete details of the country's Sudanese women hold vigil for democratic transition period were revealed for the first time. detained protesters Read full article... Unblocking Syria's social media 14 February 2011: Egypt crisis: Protesters leave Tahrir Square REGIONS By: BBC News, February 14, 2011 Events in Egypt Egyptian security forces are removing the final protesters from Cairo's Tahrir Square after the new military rulers vowed to dissolve South Asia parliament and suspend the constitution. Read full article... Southeast Asia East Asia What is the Egyptian military's new role? By: Emad Shahin, NY Times, February 14, 2011 Africa With Mubarak's departure, will the army take power or push for North America democratic change? The situation today is different. In 1952, it was the military that toppled the monarchical regime, but this time it was Central America/Caribbean the people who brought Mr. Mubarak down and it is the people who will keep the pressure on to ensure that a civilian democratic system South America is in place. Europe Read full article... Middle East/North Africa WikiLeaks cables: Egyptian military head is 'old and resistant to change' By: Julian Borger and James Ball, The Guardian, Febraury 14, 2011 ARTICLES OF INTEREST Nothing Egypt's military council has done in its past suggests it has the capacity or inclination to introduce speedy and radical change. Guaranteed its $1.3bn (£812m) annual grant from the US - a http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=6... 1 News Digest on Nonviolent Conflict 18.02.2011 16:33 ICNC WEBSITE dividend from the Camp David peace accord with Israel - it has gained the reputation as a hidebound institution with little appetite DIGEST ARCHIVES for reform. Read full article... Contribute items to the News Digest ! Egypt: Police protest for rights By: Heba Fahmy, Daily News Egypt, February 14, 2011 Police officers protested in Cairo on Sunday asking for better working SUBSCRIBE TO NEWS conditions, a day after officers marched in Ismailia in solidarity with DIGEST the revolution, insisting they had been ordered against their will to shoot at protesters. More than 1,000 low-ranking policemen (with no prospects of promotion to officer status) marched on their employer, the interior ministry, to demand pay raises, better health care, the return of the officers who were unjustly discharged, honoring the officers who died during the revolution and for their former boss. Read full article... Egypt protests continue in the factories By: Hossam el-Hamalawy, The Guardian, February 14, 2011 Since Hosni Mubarak fled from Cairo, and even before then, some middle-class activists have been urging Egyptians, in the name of patriotism, to suspend their protests and return to work, singing some of the most ridiculous lullabies: "Let's build a new Egypt", "Let's work harder than ever before". They clearly do not know that Egyptians are already among the hardest working people in the world. Read full article... 13 February 2011: Egypt: Obama's strategy was to pressure Mubarak without intruding By: Peter Nicholas, LA Times, February 13, 2011 The White House's handling of that moment hewed to a strategy developed after the crisis erupted Jan. 25. Determined to be on "the right side of history" without intruding in Egypt's political affairs, Obama wanted to put pressure on the dictator, squeezing Mubarak to hand over power and begin the transition to a more democratic country. Read full article... Egypt's army dissolves parliament By: Al Jazeera, February 13, 2011 Egypt's military has dissolved parliament and suspended the constitution, two days after Hosni Mubarak, the long-serving president, stepped down in the wake of a popular uprising. The country's Supreme Council of Armed Forces announced on Sunday that it would remain in charge of the country for six months until a new government is formed. Read full article... Egypt insider: Mubarak's fall was years in the making By: Hannah Allam, McClatchy Newspapers, February 13, 2011 Mohammed Abdellah, 64, one of the last living founders of the former president's National Democratic Party said, he'd watched with http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=6... 2 News Digest on Nonviolent Conflict 18.02.2011 16:33 sadness as Mubarak - whom he first knew as an eager, details- oriented party leader - was transformed into a cocooned authoritarian whose reliance on a tiny group of self-serving advisers led to a deeply divided NDP and, ultimately, the regime's collapse. Read full article... Twitter feed evolves into a news wire about Egypt By: Brian Stelter, NY Times, February 13, 2011 While people debated whether Web sites like Twitter were important in organizing protests in Tunisia and Egypt, Andy Carvin was organizing information about the protests in an innovative way. By seeking out the voices of sources in Egypt and sharing them almost in real time on a social networking site, he "provided a hint of what news can look like in an increasingly networked media environment." Read full article... Egypt's path after uprising does not have to follow Iran's By: Anthony Shadid, NY Times, February 13, 2011 There is a fear in the West, one rarely echoed here, that Egypt's revolution could go the way of Iran's, when radical Islamists ultimately commandeered a movement that began with a far broader base. But the two are very different countries. In Egypt, the uprising offers the possibility of an accommodation with political Islam rare in the Arab world - that without the repression that accompanied Mr. Mubarak's rule, Islam could present itself in a more moderate guise. Read full article... From 9/11 to 2/11 By: Roger Cohen, NY Times, February 13, 2011 Perhaps the most effective antidote to 9/11 will prove to be 2/11, the day Hosni Mubarak conceded the game was up with his 30-year-old dictatorship and left town under military escort for the beach. We've tried invasions of Muslim lands. We've tried imposing new systems of government on them. We've tried wars on terror. We've tried spending billions of dollars. What we haven't tried is tackling what's been rotten in the Arab world by helping a homegrown, bottom-up movement for change turn a U.S.-backed police state into a stable democracy. Read full article... Egyptian army corrals protesters to reopen Tahrir By: Marwa Awad and Dina Zayed, Mail And Guardian, February 13, 2011 Hundreds of Egyptian soldiers shoved pro-democracy protesters aside to force a path for traffic to start flowing through central Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday for the first time in more than two weeks. Protesters chanted "peacefully, peacefully" as the soldiers and military police in red berets moved in to disperse them. Scuffles broke out and some soldiers lashed out with sticks. Read full article... 12 February 2011: A look back at the amazing citizen video footage from Egypt By: Good News, February 12, 2011 http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=6... 3 News Digest on Nonviolent Conflict 18.02.2011 16:33 Using everything from cell phone cameras to professional recording equipment, Egypt's citizens made sure their recent revolution wasn't just televised, but broadcast around the entire world. Here, an inspiring and sometimes frightening look at the past three weeks' events as Egypt saw them unfold. Above, protesters sprint from police on the first day of demonstrations, January 25. Read full article... Military offers assurances to Egypt and neighbors By: Kareem Fahim, NY Times, February 12, 2011 As a new era dawned in Egypt on Saturday, the army leadership sought to reassure Egyptians and the world that it would shepherd a transition to civilian rule and honor international commitments like the peace treaty with Israel. In Tahrir, or Liberation, Square, some members of the broad movement that toppled Mr. Mubarak vowed to continue their protests, saying that all their demands had not yet been met. Read full article... 11 February 2011: Three key moments likely drove Egypt's military By: Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers, February 11, 2011 Three key developments likely led the Egyptian military to abandon its support for President Hosni Mubarak after 18 days of political crisis, Obama administration officials, U.S. military officers and Mideast experts agreed Friday, even as they said they were in the dark about the exact chain of events. Read full article... Egypt: Can an army famous for abuse really install democracy? By: Shashank Bengali, McClatchy Newspapers, February 11, 2011 Behind the scenes, however, soldiers and military police are said to be carrying out the same kinds of arbitrary arrests and torture of which Egyptian police have long been accused.
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