Thursday 24 February 2011

Rwanda : Paul Kagame et ses alliés apprendront-ils des événements de la Tunisie et de l'Égypte?

Par leurs soulèvements, les Tunisiens et les Égyptiens viennent de chasser du pouvoir les dictateurs qui les avaient opprimés pendant des décennies. Il s'agit d'un exemple patent qui montre combien il est impossible d'étouffer indéfiniment les aspirations de liberté, de justice sociale et de démocratie d'un peuple. Cependant, la question reste de savoir si les dictateurs de ce monde sont capables d'assimiler cette leçon.


Prenons le cas du Rwanda. [...] Dans le classement mondial 2010 de liberté de la presse effectué par Reporters sans frontière, le Rwanda figure parmi les 10 pays les plus grands prédateurs de la presse. Comme l'on voit bien, la contestation qui a emporté les dictateurs tunisien et égyptien et qui s'étend désormais partout dans les pays arabes pourrait trouver matière à contagion ailleurs dans le monde. Elle ne devrait pas non plus préoccuper uniquement les dictateurs. Elle interpelle aussi les puissances occidentales qui, malgré de beaux discours sur les droits de la personne et la démocratie, soutiennent fermement les régimes répressifs et liberticides, soi-disant au nom de la stabilité.


Autant Ben Ali et Moubarak étaient fortement soutenus par l'occident, autant Paul Kagame est soutenu par les grandes capitales occidentales, principalement Londres et Washington, qui financent la moitié du budget de son gouvernement et sa machine de répression.  [...]

L'argument de stabilité à n'importe quel prix, longtemps présenté pour appuyer des dictatures, vient de montrer sa faille dans l'effondrement brusque des régimes Ben Ali et Moubarak au grand dam de leurs alliés. Le monde devrait désormais comprendre que la seule stabilité qui vaille la peine d'être défendue est celle qui émerge des institutions démocratiques et répond aux profondes aspirations de tous les citoyens.

L'article entier, par Emmanuel Hakizimana, Ph.D.


Monday 14 February 2011

Tahir song



y que dure! inshallah!

Sunday 13 February 2011

judge for yourself

proud

proud of the people, proud of egyptians
may they be our inspiration



there is still much to do

Friday 4 February 2011

humour against the ridiculous

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After top-lining the 'The No Taxpayer Funding For Abortions Act' currently being considered in the house, Jon Stewart brought on Senior Women's Issues Correspondent Kristen Schaal to discuss the issue in depth.
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the best of people: tension into jokes

“The running joke,” Amr says, “is that the upcoming Arab League summit will need a lot of icebreakers because there will be so many new faces.”



Cairo’s Band of Geeks Survives Tahrir Square Assault

the capacity of some people

to resume in one drawing the current conversations, possibilities...
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Tuesday 1 February 2011

Egypt, Palestine and a regional order

"We are in the middle of a political earthquake in the Arab world and the ground has still not stopped shaking. To make predictions when events are so fluid is risky, but there is no doubt that the uprising in Egypt -- however it ends -- will have a dramatic impact across the region and within Palestine.

[...] The relative ease with which Tunisians threw off their dictator, and the speed with which Egypt, and perhaps Yemen, seem to be going down the same road, may well send a message to Palestinians that neither Israel's nor the PA's security forces are as indomitable as they appear.
[...] Built on the foundations of a fraudulent peace process, the US, EU and Israel with the support of the decrepit Arab regimes now under threat by their own people, have constructed a Palestinian house of cards that is unlikely to remain standing much longer. " full article: Egypt's uprising and its implications for Palestine

traducido al espanhol : El levantamiento Egipcio y sus repercusiones para Palestina

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"[...]The revolution in Tunisia and the mass anti-government protests in Egypt demand a shift in the way Israel's leaders see the regional order and Israel's place in it. Instead of seeking refuge in the known and the familiar - the tired claims that "there's no one to talk to and no one to rely on" - Israel's foreign policy must adapt itself to a reality in which the citizens of Arab states, and not just tyrants and their cronies, influence the trajectory of their countries' development.


The time has come to start preparing for a new regional order. Instead of clinging to the old, collapsing order, Netanyahu must seek peace agreements with both the Palestinians and with Syria in order to make Israel a more welcome and desirable neighbor. " Preparing for a new regional order, Hareetz editorial