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ARAB SPRING UPRISINGS

By mbdawson1

  • Tunisia: Mohamed Bouazizi sets self on fire

    Ignites protest

  • Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben flees to Saudi Arabia

    Ending more than two decades of authoritarian rule

  • Tunisia: Snipers carry out a series of massacres in Kasserine and Thala

    Violence that shocks Tunisians across the country, laying the seeds for the uprising to become a genuinely nationwide phenomenon

  • Yemen: protests emerge against Ali Abdullah Saleh

    Who had ruled for more than three decades

  • Egypt: Hosni Mubarak resigns

    After 18 days of protest

  • Libya: rebels assert control

  • Syria: protests begin against Bashar Assad

  • Yemen: president leaves country

  • Egypt: Mubarak goes on trial

  • Libya: Rebels enter Tripoli, Moammar Gadhafi goes into hiding

  • Libya: Gadhafi killed

    Ending four decades of authoritarian rule

  • Yemen: Saleh resigns

  • Bahrain: UN report finds abuses

    King Hamad bin Asa Al Khadifi promises reforms

  • Egypt: citizens vote in parliamentary elections

    Muslim Brotherhood leads

  • Syria: UN estimates dead at 5,000

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