Yesterday (or the day before, I forgot =P), President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt finally resigned from his post. Unlike the Tunisian President Ben Ali, who is currently in Saudi Arabia, Mubarak decided to stay in Egypt and is probably relaxing at his million-dollar-mansion at Sharm-el-Sheikh by the Red Sea in the Sinai Peninsula, bordering Israel. Sadly, Egyptian democracy is still a long way away as Mubarak has left the High Council of Egyptian Armed Forces in charge. Basically, all of the military officials of the Mubarak government are still there, and only Mubarak (who I now regard as a puppet for the army), has left. Sure, the Council has dissolved the Egyptian Parliament, but it probably aims for appointing more of its own members in official positions. It shares a faint resemblance to Hitler's rise in power in 1930s Germany, with the dissolving of the German Reichstag numerous times just for more Nazis to get elected. Same in Tunisia, where there are still protests going on against the new Tunisian government, which, coincidentally, is also a military official. Maybe the Muslim Brotherhood is behind all of this after all!
I could go on for ages, but I've been on the computer for far too long and I need to rest my eyes. Bye!
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