Egypt`s Revolution !!

I read an article the other day in the online newspaper “economist” and it mentioned that Mubarak had resigned as Egypt`s president.

I thought you might be interested because this is one of the biggest revolutions in the world. About one million people protested against their president who governed about 32 years.


Basically what it says is that Egypt’s population fight for more democracy against the regime of Mubarak. The president tried to calm down the protestants but unfortunately they were too many. The people didn’t accept some revised versions on the regime, they have wanted a complete new government. Also the military was on the side of the population. Mr. Mubarak had finally resigned as their president after 18 days of nerve wracking tumult.

After Mr. Mubarak had resigned, he flew with his wife discreetly to his beach house in Sharm el Sheikh. Now, nobody knows, what the effects and results of that protests will be as well as what will be the action plan. For the time being, the head of the new command is likely to be the acting minister of defense, Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi. But the figure many expect to emerge to prominence is the army’s chief of staff, Sami Anan, a professional soldier who is widely respected in the army. Now the Egypts are not expected to repeat such a revolution but they expect a proper democracy for the future.

What surprised me most is the fact that the protest was organized by the social network facebook.


Words:
revised versions on the regime (überarbeitete Versionen des Regimes): It means that there is no new regime, but the old regime is updated.

revolution (politischer Umsturz): In this text it means a political change.