The New York Times
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and MONA EL-NAGGAR
January 30, 2011
CAIRO — As the government of Egypt shakes from a broad-based uprising, long-simmering resentments have burst into open class warfare.
Over the past several days, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians — from indigent fruit peddlers and doormen to students and engineers, even wealthy landlords — poured into the streets together to denounce President Hosni Mubarak and battle his omnipresent security police. Then, on Friday night, the police pulled out of Egypt’s major cities abruptly, and tensions between rich and poor exploded.
Looters from Cairo’s vast shantytowns attacked gleaming suburban shopping malls, wild rumors swirled of gunfights at the bridges and gates to the most expensive neighborhoods and some of their residents turned wistful about Mr. Mubarak and his authoritarian rule.[…]
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/world/africa/31classwar.html?_r=1&hp
From joejolly’s Post: “Why Tunisia and Why Now?”
Politics may be transparent to the dissatisfaction. And so may religion. The dissatisfaction may be more basic than type of government or kind of religion. The dissatisfaction may stem from the distribution of the country’s wealth.
It may well be a case of the “haves” versus the “have nots”. That is a very basic problem not confined to any region of the world nor any particular country. And wise leaders of countries are cognizant of a possible “wealth distribution problem” and tries to avoid it.[...]
http://joejolly.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/why-tunisia-and-why-now/
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