Cairo.See what I mean when I last posted on 02 February 2011 on the subject of Cairo Turmoil. It will be an endless uprising and nothing has changed since Hosni Mubarak was toppled. Normal everyday life of ordinary Cairoean is interrupted. Seven (7) months had passed but Cairo still noisy with demonstrations.
Egyptians should have given Hosni Mubarak the chance and ample timeframe to pass the Presidential baton to someone else rather than staging a revolution to unseat him. Life could be spared. Nobody can transform absolute democracy overnight in Egypt.
Cairo or not Egypt is in shamble and the tourism industries will slowly fading away. People are scared to come with the endless demonstrations. The Revolution - is it for the good or for the worse for the people? I remember talking to one Egyptians in Masjidilharam Mecca sometimes April 2011. This guy work in Kuwait and he had high hope that Egypt will go for the better but my opinion was otherwise. I quoted an example of Philippine who toppled Marcos with the Peoples Power and as of today, the life in Philippine is just as normal or not worse. The slums still exist and the poor remain poorer.
Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysian Opposition had in their mind staging similar to Cairo but majority of Malaysians were not stupid. The majority address the tree not the jungle. Long sighted Malaysians, if he is not happy have the vehicle to change the Government at the General Election and if there is any transition it would be smooth. After the 2008 General Election, four (4) Malaysian states were handed to the Opposition smoothly but one (1) was wrested when a couple of the Oppositions jumped ship.
The gist of organizing the Bersih Rally in Malaysia was about cleansing of the Election Commission but on the street they shouted “Down with BN” and “Reformasi”.
In Cairo what actually the Egyptians Rally for? Toppling Hosni Mubarak? Yes they did and what more? In Malaysia, what actually the Oppositions want? They don’t have to go to the street. A Memorandum or a Referendum would be the best way or wait for the General Election. Every citizen must respect the majority arising from General Election. Collectively contribute to the nation wellbeing and development and then wait for the next General election. It is sad to see in Malaysia every other day is politicking and attacking the ruling government. So much so the Government in existence has nothing else to do. How can the country progress? A small issue became a big issue. A 14 year old boy driving without a valid driving license in the middle of the night, escaping the Police order to stop, got shot and killed, the Police and the Government was blamed. Who the hell know it was a 14 year old boy in the darkened night? The Police was on site to upkeep the nation security. That 14 year old boy could be a burglar. The whole Opposition cried out loud for Justice to the 14 year old boy. What if the 14 year old boy knocked and killed someone on the road? What Justice are they going to seek? A suspected car thief caught by the Police and dead in the lockup, the whole town attended the funeral angered against the Police. Have the Oppositions ever thought how many innocent citizens have incurred losses when their cars got stolen? I lost a car but luckily it was recovered but I still incurred monetary and time losses.
The Oppositions simply want to ripple the ocean with a drop of rain.
To me politic is damn dirty. Whoever is reigning is just the same. I have seen it at my small community. They cried out loud when the former was enjoying the development projects and term them as cronies but now when they are in power they get the same, sitting quietly enjoying the harvest. It is just a case of sour grape and jealousy that they become Oppositions. Coming to their turn it is not cronies. Politicians are synonym to Projects and project is money. That’s the denominations. They don’t care less about the nation they only care about their own pockets. Everybody would be the same. It doesn’t change things. The terminology is: Today you get and tomorrow I will try to get what you get. If the country is in shambles, who cares?
NO NATION IN THIS WORLD IS PERFECT.
I just want PEACE and I want to spend the balance of my days peacefully. My fellow Malaysians, I see you at the next General election provided Allah willing to see me kicking.
Cairo as reported by the Guardian.
Protests have brought Egypt's administrative and commercial nerve centres to a standstill , as government attempts to stem a growing wave of opposition to military rule succeeded only in galvanising demonstrators further.
The interim prime minister, Essam Sharaf, took to the airwaves late on Saturday pledging to "meet the people's demands", following mass rallies across the country in which Egyptians accused the ruling council of army generals of betraying the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak this year.
In a short and strained address to the nation, Sharaf said all police officers accused of killing protesters would be stopped from working, and promised that the trials of former Mubarak ministers and other regime officials would proceed "as soon as possible". He insisted that social and economic problems would be reviewed by the army-appointed transitional cabinet.
But activists dismissed the announcement as empty rhetoric and claimed it contained nothing substantive. "His speech sounded like one of these tricks of the old government," Sherif, an engineer in his late 20s, told local news website Ahram Online. "If this government is unable to take serious steps, it should resign."
Several thousand people flocked to Cairo's Tahrir Square after Sharaf's speech. Anti-government activists have taken control of the roads there and an open-ended sit-in began on Friday. By Sunday morning, access to the Mugamma – a giant concrete building on one side of the square that serves as the bureaucratic heart of the Egyptian state – had been blocked off, with some employees reportedly joining the protests.
In Suez, another focal point for political unrest, the families of some of those killed in the anti-Mubarak uprising helped protesters cut off the main highway between Cairo and Sokhna port, the main transit point for goods entering and leaving the Suez canal. The canal has also been targeted by strikes and protests in recent days, although officials insisted that international maritime traffic remained unaffected.
Sharaf – a popular choice among revolutionaries when he was first appointed interim prime minister in March – has repeatedly claimed that he draws his legitimacy from Tahrir, and said again on Saturday that "the people" were the only sovereign power in Egypt. But analysts believe that the army generals have given him little control over policy and personnel decisions, and in recent weeks the 59-year-old has cut an increasingly frustrated figure in public.
Egyptian newspapers used their Sunday editions to highlight the widening gap between the supreme council of the armed forces, which assumed power in the aftermath of Mubarak's overthrow and has promised democratic elections before the end of the year, and large sections of the general public who believe that the pace of reform is too slow. "Protesters: Sharaf's decisions are not enough — Calls for hunger strikes and civil disobedience," stated the front-page headline in state-owned al-Ahram, the country's biggest-selling daily. Al-Tahrir, a new Egyptian paper that emerged out of the revolution, splashed with a smiling photo of the country's de facto leader, Field Marshall Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, under the words "The Marshall doesn't respond."
Activists have called for another round of mass demonstrations on Tuesday.
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