Arab Spring Notes
Tunisia
- This was the original revolution which started the Arab Spring
- This was the first mobile phone captured war
- Fruit seller committed suicide. This was what ignited the civilians to revolt.
- Police used violence to the protests
- Tunisia TV didn't report anything. Tunisia press was censored
- Therefore, the civilians captured what happened on their mobile devices.
- These videos was then posted on Facebook for the world to see.
- Within days these clips was shown on the leading news organisation in the middle east, Al Jazeera.
- Activists would use Twitter to organize protests and to avoid the police
- Civilians captured live footage through live streams on the phones
- There were a 150 deaths.
- Bin Ali (Dictator) left the country after protests.
- It took 28 days for the dictatorship regime to fall.
- The Cairo citizens awed the actions of the Tunisian citizens.
- They now had a goal to make the Egypt dictator (Hasnin Mubarak) to step down
- Bloggers who criticized the regime would get imprisoned and tortured.
- Only 20% of the population had access to the internet.
- Protests were planned to happen in the main city square
- Vodaphone decided to cut their networks from the civilians of Egypt.
- 200,000 protesters appeared in the town square, which was organised on the internet
- Mubarak sent patriotic messages via text to the civilians to try and stop them. They weren't impressed.
- The Egyptian army chose to turn against Mubarak and fight for the people of the country rather than him
- After the protesters took over the Tahrir Square in Cairo, politicians around the world advised Mubarak to step down
- February 11th: Hasnin Mubarak Stepped down as the dictator of Egypt.
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