From 25th Jan this year, the erupting was taken place in the capital and other places of Egypt. It is reported that this erupting is the biggest one since 1977. In 1977, people in Egypt come to the street for the shortage of food.
This year, people get together again to fight for poverty, corruption, unemployment and harassment, this is the hope of Egyptian who have posted it on the Facebook and Twitter. Protestors want to organize this movement via Facebook and Twitter, they want to get it out of the country. Now, the government of Egypt has shutted down Twitter, although local people can not access the Internet. It is said that the Internet company in Egypt also shutted down the whole net, except only one-Vodafone.
The protestor select the 25th Jan, because this day is the "policeman day" in Egypt. People claimed that they wanted to change "policeman day" into "revolution day". They were begging the President of Egypt to be fired.
This movement occured in peaceful, however, it became worse than worse, 3 people were killed in this movement. The Internation community has paid much attention to this issue. Secretary of State Hillary has addressed that she appeal to people can calm down with the Egypt government.
From looking at that photo of President Mubarak, the people of Egypt has had enough of his authoritarian rule. I could have not fathom if my President was in office for thirty years. But technology has also played a major role such as Twitter and Facebook for bringing down the rule of President Mubarak which is said he will be stepping down in September 2011.
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