What had started in Tunisia, is not over yet. Tunisia, a beautiful tourist place in North Africa is in headlines these days, not for its natural beauty but for the revolution going there. The contagious street protests spread to Algeria and Morocco (on Tunisia's west) and to Egypt and Libya (on Tunisia's east). Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarrak are gone, and Gaddafi hasn't gone still, but looks weakened. The popular discontent against political power structures shows no sign of abating. The protest has spread in gulf and tension is started in Pakistan too.
Social uprising and resultant overthrown of government are not new. The first and probably the most decisive revolution was started in early seventies in Gdansk, a city in Poland. the man who started it all, Walesa won Noble prize in year 1983 and became the president of poland in 1990.
What characterizes the current Arab ferment is the clear absence of the identifiable leader. There are thousands of people out at Tahrir square fighting against current government. But there is not a single person making speech or governing the complete mass of people as well as revolution. Neither Gaddari, Mubarrak nor Ali has been able to identify whom to take into control to stop this revolution. But, even without a leader, this revolution seems to be making a decisive impact.
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