Holbrook 1 Adrianna Holbrook Oladimeji Aborsade AFRS-LBST 2102-005 October 23, 2013

Revolution
Many times before we have seen the following story appeared in the news discussion. In a many countries, a political measure systematizes to protest state inequalities, upsets a coldblooded dictator, and makes headlines worldwide observing the achievement. Just so that same situation will happen again in the upcoming news about the problems and worries of moving past this success. The word revolution is the word that we are talking about through out this paper. A revolution is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time. It is often related to political change, when such adjustment may also cover the seeds of its own destruction. In this paper I will be talking about the different revolutions in Libya, Egypt and Syria. I will discuss how the revolution accrued to what happened during the time they were in the revolution and I will go over the aftermath if it the revolution is over with. With these three different countries they all have different stories behind their revolution.

In Syria there has been a lot of ongoing events that makes it clear that Syria should not be a revolution. The label revolution is critically important because it implies that the overwhelming majority of people have decided and are dedicated to a

Holbrook 2 specific path for society. There are two social powers, The Syrian government and the Islamist extremist militias. The both sides havent been more dominant than the other to proclaim them in a liberated way. The uprising remains a largely Sunni Islam uprising, dominated by Sunni extremists who are armed and funded from the heartland of religious extremism, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and their paymaster the United States. People confess that the current fighting power among the Syrian rebels is Jabhat al-Nursa, religious extremists that use terrorist tactics and are directly affiliated with al-Qaeda. One of the main arguments between these two social powers is womens rights. The Syrian government has similar freedoms to the women in American. Where the alternate party wants women to be property of men with out any civil rights. There is no revolution unless people are declaring their dominance in the streets, workplaces, and neighborhoods. This isnt the case in Syria a revolution is nonexistent at the time. Another way that we know that Syria has not entered a revolutionary is because of the non-participation of the Syrian labor movement. When there is a revolution it is supposed to affect the nations labor movement in a very strong way. For example, before Egypts revolution the Egyptian labor movement was deeply connected to the Egyptian government, as was the Venezuelan labor movements connection to its government in pre-revolutionary Venezuela. The Syrian president Bashar Assad did an interview saying he is not afraid of meeting the same fate as the deposed and disgraced leaders of Libya and Egypt, saying he has nothing in common with them. He tells the reporters that he is in a totally different situation then the other leaders of Egypt and Libya. The 16 months of upheaval in Syria, spurred by the Arab Spring's pro-democracy movements across the Middle East, have left well over 14,000 people dead, according to

Holbrook 3 activists. They accuse the autocratic ruler of crushing legitimate protests seeking reforms by waging a war against his own people. Also their leader Assad rejected accountability of his safety services for the violence, demanding, "supporters of the government, the victims from the security and the army far outnumber those among civilians.

Moving along to Egypts revolution it all started in January and February of 2011. It was known as the biggest anti-government rebel since the last president, Hosni Mubarak. It all began when numerous Egyptians set themselves on fire outside government headquarters. This was just the beginning to a long road ahead. Demographics, technology, foreign policy, legitimacy of the state, torture, corruption and other factors all played a part in bringing discontented Egyptians out on the streets. This was what the revolution was made up of, a lot of these things have been built and they have finally just exploded. There was a lot of mass destruction with hundreds close to thousands of people being killed and over 3,000 people becoming injured. After 18 days of fierce protests, Mubarak announced he was stepping down on February 12, 2011, bringing an end to his 30-year regime. On June 30th 2012 Egypt freely elected their president, Mr Morsi. Now the main conflict in 2012 and 2013 is the protesters have resulted in violent clashes between Morsi-supporters and the anti-Morsi protesters, with dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries. The media says that they cant evaluate the crises in Egypt accurately because its unlike any revolution in history. The recent news in Egypt is that Obama administration broadcasts a modest and momentary freeze on military support to Egypt. On August 14, 2013 wearing riot gear and driving armored vehicles and bulldozers, the security forces move in, killing at least 600 people and

Holbrook 4 wounding thousands more. The attack, aided by snipers, lasts for more than 12 hours. Obama gave a statement on Egypt; he said that he strongly condemns the steps that have been taken by the government and security forces. He stopped a joint military use; scheduled for September he also said America cannot determine the future of Egypt, As American officials accentuate their desire to avoid breaking a security relationship and causing more conflict they are trying to fix things day by day and when I say fixing I mean doing it the right way and that means not by violence. On September 12th the presidents office says, The security situation in the country warrants a two-month extension of the state of emergency, which grants security forces extra powers. The country had been under a state of emergency for nearly three decades under Mubarak. It was one of the first rules lifted by the military in 2011 to begin the transition to democracy.

The Libyan revolution was sparkled by the Egyptians revolution. When they overthrew their long ruler in a very short period of time. The revolution started two years ago when the Libyan people attempted to get their basic rights for freedom. The dictator was not used to this kind of demand for, the people and therefore he decided to take action and respond with violence. In Libya, things went along an unusual path; the long period dictator used enormous amounts of power to destroy the peaceful protestors. His cruel actions and outrages against the nonviolent protestors have persuaded the long troubled Libyan people. They thought the only way they could fight back and defeat him was to pick up deadly weapons and fight against the dictator. This was a bad move in the dictators part the protesters didnt want violence they just simply wanted the freedom

Holbrook 5 they deserves. In the first days of the February 17, revolution, the demonstrators have attacked military bases, government buildings and Kaddafis secret services head quarters. In less than a week, the people of Benghazi and eastern Libya have wrested almost all eastern Libya away from the hands of the dictator. The aftermath with Libya is after everything was said and done with. They began a development to form a new government, organize for elections and impeach former Gaddafi officials. In the nonexistence of a structured military, armed militias of previous rebels continued to declare their role as "guardians of the revolution.

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