People are exhausted and traumatized. The Guardian: The Arab Spring is unfinished business | the Arab world

British newspaper The Guardian said: In its opening After a decade of Arab Spring uprisings, the tyranny has become stricter than ever, and the people are exhausted and traumatized, but it is not yet time to judge these uprisings.

The newspaper pointed out that the Arab Spring is an incomplete work, despite the loss of hope felt by the peoples of the region in 2011, adding that although many in the region fear more chaos and violence, there are many. ‘others who still believe that they day realize their aspirations for justice and freedom.

The weaknesses of the uprisings, she said, are clear: inexperience and lack of organization, due to decades of political repression, and the difference between secular liberals and Islamists, but the blame for this devastation is not the responsibility of the freedom seekers, but of the rulers. they chose to crush the foreign powers whose intervention deepened them. The devastation of the region has worsened, “those who aspire to a better life have found themselves geopolitical pawns”.

The newspaper added that the power structures inherited from colonial rule have been undermined by widespread demographic change, and prosperity in Arab countries has become limited to the ruling elite and their representatives, while the ever-growing population sees that trying to improve his living conditions and political situation has become more difficult.

She noted that the echoes of the Arab Spring were also palpable outside the region, as it may have played a role in the evolution towards increasing repression in China and the West with the influx of immigrants and the growth. anti-populism there. .

She concluded that the events of the last decade in Arab countries should have eliminated the myth that autocrats bring stability, but Western countries did not follow this logic and continued to sell guns to tyrants or to the powerful, and to turn a blind eye to humans. rights violations, and in the assertion that authoritarianism will provide security.

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