Pro-Democracy Fever Comes to Algeria
Are we seeing the next "Battle of Algiers"? Coming only a day after the fall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, thousands of people defied a government ban to hold a pro-democracy rally in Algeria.
Are we seeing the next “Battle of Algiers”? Coming only a day after the fall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, thousands of people defied a government ban to hold a pro-democracy rally in Algeria.
Shouting “Bouteflika out!” in reference to the country’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, protesters joined an upwelling in the region demanding more freedoms and improved living conditions.
Algeria has been under a state of emergency since 1992.
Rock Solid JournalismThe BBC:
The protesters gathered at Algiers’ 1 May Square on Saturday morning.
They chanted “Bouteflika out!” — in reference to the country’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Some demonstrators waved copies of a newspaper front page with the headline about the ousting of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Friday, Reuters reports.
About 30,000 police are reportedly deployed in and around [the] capital, and extra police with water cannons are on stand-by.
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Editorial Cartoons
Mass protests have reshaped Iraq, Lebanon, Algeria and Sudan, but you'd never know it from the coverage they've received in U.S. media.
Aggressive policing, mass incarceration and inhumane detention facilities are products of overseas empire—imperial chickens come home to roost.
From Algeria to Morocco, there's been a new set of popular uprisings in northern Africa, protesting autocrats—of which the U.S. has its own.
America’s history of bungling in the Middle East suggests it should just sit this latest development out.
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