WORLD_ Arab Spring: Middle East still united in protest one year on

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Arab Spring: Middle East still united in protest one year on

New footage from Syria, Bahrain and Yemen shows that the power of the Arab Spring, which began a year ago in Tunisia, still grips the region as anti-government protests show no sign of abating

10:13PM GMT 16 Dec 2011


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In Syria, protesters in Homs continue to demonstrate against Psesident Assad despite a brutal crackdown @

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/8962589/Arab-Spring-Middle-East-still-united-in-protest-one-year-on.html

More than a protest, it was a revolution that swept across the Arab world, powered by the pent-up anger of millions no longer afraid to voice their opinion.

A year of rage began on December 17, 2010, when Mohammed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian vendor, set himself on fire in a protest against the government. Anger about Bouazizi's desperate act led to massive public demonstrations against Tunisia's longtime dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.

Twelve months on and Tunisia, Egypt and a bloodied-Libya have all seen long-standing dictators toppled. Ben Ali, Hosni Mubarak and the late Muammar Gaddafi all forced from power by tidal waves of popular unrest.

Far from running out of steam however, the spirit of the Arab Spring still lives on to varying degrees in Bahrain, Yemen and most vividly in an increasingly desperate Syria.

Despite a murderous crackdown that has lasted almost as long as the nine months of protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, Syrians continue to take to the streets to demonstrate against their ruler.


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The latest amateur video from Homs, the focal point of anti-regime sentiment and scene of the most bloodshed, shows protesters defying government forces as they hang an effigy of President Assad alongside other high-profile government officials.

In Bahrain, inspired by the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, thousands of mainly Shi'ite Bahrainis took to the streets in February and March demanding curbs on the power of the ruling Al-Khalifa family and an end to perceived discrimination.

The broader pro-democracy movement was suppressed with the help of military forces brought in from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. But small, low-level protests have persisted on an almost daily basis.

New powerful footage from the capital Manama appears to shows a lone female protester maintaining the struggle in a sit-down protest at a roundabout before being handcuffed and dragged away by police.

And in Yemen, thousands took to the streets in Sanaa to demand President Ali Abdullah Saleh face justice over the killing of demonstrators in the country's uprising and to reject the amnesty given to Saleh against prosecution.

Demonstrators were angered by Yemen's transfer of power deal negotiated by neighbouring states and signed by Saleh last month, which promised Saleh immunity from prosecution if he stands down.

Yemen's Saleh, in power for 33 years, appears set to be the next leader to fall victim to the Arab Spring should he fulfil his pledge to step down.

If the events of the last twelve months are anything to go by, it seems unlikely that he will be the last.


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