Anya+J.

Move Over Mubarak Nearly 300 people died protesting in Egypt. In Libya, about 1,000 people have died protesting so far; an astonishing amount. The difference between Libya’s and Egypt’s uprisings is that battles broke out in Libya and people with little to no military experience worked with high power weapons to fight against the Libyan army. The people of Cairo, Egypt, protested in the streets to force out their leader, Mubarak. He fled the country after 18 days (3 weeks) of protest. The Egyptian people are free. But what does this mean? Some might say it is a great event for the people of Egypt, but I believe it to be a burden to the country. The uprising in Egypt has been far more damaging to the country than helping it overall because there is much after-violence, it has caused other countries to rebel against their own governments, and the people of Egypt do not have a government set up for the time being.

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