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Tunisia Story Cause
In 2010 December 17 a 26-year-old Tunisian named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire. It was an extreme act by a young man who had reached his limits after being banned from selling fruit to earn a living but then couldn't. It was a young police women who convicted him on his unlicensed fruit stand license. It was just after that the Mohamed know what he was going to do and that was to light himself on fire with fuel that he bought at the gas station. This then became known as the Arab Spring. -
Tunisia
Tunisians are proud that the Arab Spring was born in their country but change is not coming fast enough. The administration has set October 23 for elections to an assembly that will draft a new constitution. This is where it all started in January 14, 2011. Zine el-Abedin Ben Ali was the leader of this then it started, They were in a Democrat or Democracy. -
Egypt story cause
In June 2010, a young Egyptian citizen of Alexandria, was beaten to death by plain-clothes police officers right next to the local internet cafe. A Facebook page titled We Are All Khaled Said attracted hundreds of thousands of followers and has been viewed as a catalyst for the 2011 revolution, as it increased awareness of police brutality under former President Hosni Mubarak's rule. This lead Hosni to resign just because of the madness. -
Egypt
Eighteen days of mass protests forced Hosni Mubarak to resign in February 2011, after three decades in power. He was convicted of the killing of 846 during the uprising. In a Democracy Mubarak was forced to resign. -
Libya
Most of the anti-government protests in February went into armed revolt, with rebels seizing Benghazi as Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qaddafi vowed to defeat them or die fighting. Over views over member states the level of commitment has strained the alliance. Col Qaddafi's regime has called for a ceasefire, although he himself has refused to step down. -
Libya story cause
In 2011 Libyans rose against Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi, the country was on the brink of collapse. Benghazi was experiencing the worst of the violence. A fierce conflict between forces loyal to Operation Dignity and the Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries has displaced thousands of civilians. The effected documents serious human rights abuses and violations of IHL. Including abductions, summary killings of civilians and captured fighters, Direct attacks against civilians and property. -
Yemen
In April 2011, Mr Saleh's GPC agreed to a Gulf Co-operation Council-brokered deal to hand over power. The president refused to sign. This prompted the Hashid tribal federation and several army commanders to back the opposition. After this the clashes erupted in Sanaa. In June 2011, Mr Saleh was seriously injured in a bombing and traveled abroad for medical treatment. -
Yemen Story cause
Since taking power, President Hadi has struggled to tackle poverty and malnutrition. An Islamist insurgency led by al-Qaeda, a movement in the south, and Zaidi Shia rebels in the north. A National Dialogue Conference involving rival political, tribal, religious and social groups, was held to draft a new constitution and hold democratic elections in February -
Iran
The anti-government in the region could also travel to Iran, say noting about how the country faces a youth bulge and rising unemployment, similar to conditions in other Mideast states coping with ferment. Alireza Nader of the RAND Corporation says a potentially powerful civil disobedience movement. Environmental, economic, and social issues is also growing in Iran, which could be much harder for the regime to control than the opposition-led Green Movement of 2009. -
Iran story cause
Iran and Saudi Arabia have had tense diplomatic relations since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that overthrew Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, although there have been occasional thaws. This is one of the outcomes that has came from this and the story's were complicated and hard to understand besides the war.
