A 'Revolução Branca' venceu ao 18º dia de protesto: Hosni Mubarak já não é o presidente do Egipto

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Ao final de 18 dias de inamovível protesto, Hosni Mubarak, um dos mais poderosos ditadores do Mundo, verga à vontade popular e abandona a Presidência do Egipto.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011, 8:52 AM

(Al Jazeera English: 0845 PST, February 11, 2011) Omar Suleiman has appeared on Egyptian state television to announce that President Mubarak has stepped down, and that power has been transferred to the Egyptian military.

Acrescenta a Al Jazeera: «The 30 seconds that ended 30 years of Hosni Mubarak's rule over Egypt».
Para ler aqui: Hosni Mubarak resigns as president 


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via AP - First Person: On Ground in Cairo, Change Begins

via Amira Al Hussaini, e directamente do Cairo, aqui ficam alguns twits que dão conta das emoções que se vivem no país: Egypt: The World Rejoices as Mubarak Resigns

Cf. no Global Voices: Egypt Protests 2011
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المصري اليوم We are all Khaled Said 6th of April Youth Movement - حركة شباب 6 إبريل Al-Masry Al-Youm English Edition UK in Egypt

A Associated Press confirma:

Egypt's Hosni Mubarak resigned as president and handed control to the military on Friday after 29 years in power, bowing to a historic 18-day wave of pro-democracy demonstrations by hundreds of thousands. "The people ousted the president," chanted a crowd of tens of thousands outside his presidential palace in Cairo.
Several hundred thousand protesters massed in Cairo's central Tahrir Square exploded into joy, cheering and waving Egyptian flags. Fireworks, car horns and celebratory shots in the air were heard around the city of 18 million in joy after Vice President Omar Suleiman made the announcement on national TV just after nightfall.
Mubarak had sought to cling to power, handing some of his authorities to Suleiman while keeping his title. But an explosion of protests Friday rejecting the move appeared to have pushed the military into forcing him out completely. Hundreds of thousands marched throughout the day in cities across the country as soliders stood by, besieging his palace in Cairo and Alexandria and the state TV building. A governor of a southern province was forced to flee to safety in the face of protests there.
It was the biggest day of protests yet in the upheaval that began Jan. 25, growing from youth activists working on the Internet into a mass movement that tapped into widespread discontent with Mubarak's authoritarian lock on power, corruption, economic woes and widespread disparities between rich and poor.
"In these grave circumstances that the country is passing through, President Hosni Mubarak has decided to leave his position as president of the republic," a grim-looking Suleiman said. "He has mandated the Armed Forces Supreme Council to run the state. God is our protector and succor."
Nobel Peace laureate Mohammed ElBaradei, whose young suporters were among the organizers of the protest movement, told The Associated Press, "This is the greatest day of my life."
"The country has been liberated after decades of repression," he said adding that he expects a "beautiful" transition of power.
Outside Mubarak's Oruba Palace in northern Cairo, women on balconies ululated with the joyous tongue-trilling used to mark weddings and births.
"Finally we are free," said Safwan Abo Stat, a 60-year-old in the crowd of protesters at the palace. "From now on anyone who is going to rule will know that these people are great."
Another, Mohammed el-Masry, weeping with joy, said he had spent the past two weeks in Tahrir before marching to the palace Friday. He was now headed back to the square to join his ecstatic colleagues. "We made it," he gasped.
The question now turned to how the military, Egypt's most powerful institution, will handle the transition in power. Earlier in the day, the Armed Forces Supreme Council — a body of top generals — vowed to guide the country to greater democracy.
In a statement hours before Suleiman's announcement, it said it was committed "to sponsor the legitimate demands of the people and endeavorfor their implementation within a defined timetable ... until achieving a peaceful transition all through a democratic society aspired by the people."
Abdel-Rahman Samir, one of the youth organizers of the protests, said the protest movement would now open negotiations with the military over democratic reform but vowed protests would continue to ensure change is carried out.
"We still don't have any guarantees yet — if we end the whole situation now the it's like we haven't done anything," he said. "So we need to keep sitting in Tahrir until we get all our demands."
But, he added, "I feel fantastic. .... I feel like we have worked so hard, we planted a seed for a yera and a half and now we are now finally sowing the fruits."


Na BBC:

Egypt's Mubarak resigns as leader: tens of thousands of Egyptians celebrate after Hosni Mubarak steps down as Egypt's president.

via Nic Robertson:

Nic's latest from Tahrir Square: Atmosphere absolutely electric, singing, flagwaving, euphoria mixed with relief, disbelief and joy.. Fireworks burst and sparkle over crowds to cheers of delight.. Groups form among the crowds, dancing in circles to the beat of drums, egyptian flags waving everywhere.

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