Protesting for human and political rights is becoming all the rage across the Middle East. After nearly three weeks of Egyptian demonstrations to oust the dictator President Mubarak and gain more individual freedoms, 400 Algerian demonstrators were reportedly arrested out of the thousands of people who defied government ban on such demonstrations. The Algerian people are demanding democracy. This demonstration is the latest in a ‘people’s revolution’ that started in neighboring Tunisia on January 14.
Ali Yahia Abdenour, head of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights, said women and foreign journalists were among those arrested following the demonstration.
After the Egyptian people showed the world that protesting can have positive effects, the Algerian people decided they want some too.
An estimated crowd size of 10,000 skirmished with riot police while chanting slogans like "No to the police state" and "Boutefika out". Officials put the crowd size at 1,500 but isn't that just like officials to downplay what is truly happening?
Don't the leaders and their puppet police know that people want basic freedoms that give them a say in how their lives are run? The day of Kings and dictatorships are numbered and its about time. People everywhere are also tired of their leaders living in luxury while they suffer from lack of employment and decent housing. This is not the Dark Ages, the fear is gone. People are waking up out of their forced enslavement and demanding their rightful stake in controlling their own destiny.
The army's decision to cancel Algeria's first multiparty legislative elections in January 1992 to thwart a likely victory by a Muslim fundamentalist party set off the insurgency. Scattered violence continues.
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