Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Fall of Mubarak: Law of History

Timesnow reports:
Egyptian President Mubarak resigns

11 Feb 2011, 2155 hrs IST, AGENCIES

Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt with an iron hand for over three decades, stepped down as President today (Feb 11) and handed over power to the army capitulating under mass protests sweeping the country's streets for the last 18 days. President Hosni Mubarak resigned and handed over power to the military, announced the recently appointed vice president Omar Sulaiman on state television.

Tahrir Square, the epicentre of the anti-government protests, erupted in joy with tens of thousands of people shouting 'Egypt is Free". The end of a despotic regime in most populous Arab nation came one week after the protesters set a deadline of 'Departure Friday' for 82-year- old Mubarak to step down as President.

Link: http://www.timesnow.tv/Egyptian-President-Mubarak-resigns/articleshow/4365055.cms

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Fall of Mubarak at Egypt proves the law of history. History in all senses is art. It has no relation with so called science! So how can history have laws? But history is not only a mere art, rather in bigger senses it is social science, and it also follows some certain rules and laws. May be these laws are not as stringent as science, may be these laws are not experimentally proven in laboratory. But if you consider the whole world as a laboratory, then ofcourse historical laws show its repeatation. Fall of Mubarak is just an example. From its early civilization, people have always protested against autocratic regime. Upto a certain level human being is flexible enough to acknowledge a leader and follow a leader’s order. But when the leader become autocratic, and when the leader’s act deprive people in general, then anger starts, and gradually it creates cloud against power and at one time it erupts. Relevant examples act as catalyst for these eruptions. In case of Egypt, fall of Tunisian autocratic leader, Ben Ali, acts as catalyst for Egypt. After Egypt, other gulf countries, like Yemen and Algeria, are also protesting against internal autocratic governance.

Also, history has experienced that, most of the revolt has a financial character. Finance, in general, plays an important role to mobilize people against autocrats. In recent times, it has been heard that, Egypt has very fragile economy inside the nation. Growth of Egypt, which was explained to outside world by Mr. Mubarak was superfluous. In actual, Egypt is running with unemployment, high inflation, etc. It helped people to go out from home and protest against Mr. Mubarak.

Fall of Mubarak shows people power. Fall of Mubarak is a lesson for all other autocratic leadership, which deprive people’s voice and which do not give respect to people’s power.

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