#Eritrea: Still think a #May24 Revolution not possible?

How it all started

On December 17, 2011 a young man named Mohamed Bouazizi (محمد البوعزيزي) set himself on fire in protest of confiscation of his fruit cart and humiliation inflicted upon him by local police officers, including females.  Nobody ever believed that this self-immolation would topple the dictatorship of long time President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, let alone spark regional and international revolution in what has been called the Arab Spring.  Only 1 month after protests erupted on the streets of Tunisia, the dictator was overthrown and seeking asylum in Saudi Arabia.  For a dictator in power for 21 years to be ousted was a miracle, but for the surrounding dictators it was a nightmare.  Soon after the Tunisian revolution, Egyptians and Mauritanians were setting themselves on fire in protest of their own tyrannical governments.  Then people erupted into protest in Libya, which Moammar Gaddafi had been in power for more than 40 years.  Bahrain's revolution was brutally crushed, only to resurface months later threatening the hosting of F1 grand prix.  


Still think a revolution is impossible in Eritrea?  Consider this:  Last year more than 100 youths took to the streets to protest government repression.  On May 28 2011, More than 66 Eritreans were rounded up on trucks and arrested arbitrarily.  Nobody knows of their status since.  Worldwide, the large Eritrean diaspora community have broken the barrier of fear and, for the first time, openly condemned the Eritrean regime in front of embassies around the world.  This new wave of democratic and youth oriented movement is blossoming despite threats from government informants, spies, and security agents arresting activists' families back home.  The government is cracking down on internet cafe's, international communication channels, and social media in a desperate effort to suppress any movement.  The government even went so far as to reshuffle the military to avoid a coup d' etat.  A coalition of Eritrean youth movements are organizing anti-government protests on May 24, 2012, on the 21st anniversary of Eritrean independence from Ethiopia.

Here is a playlist of 59 videos of Eritreans denouncing the dictatorial regime (PFDJ/HIGDEF):