TAHNIAH RAKYAT MESIR, AKHIRNYA HOSNI MUBARAK LETAK JAWATAN

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Sekalong tahniah diucapkan kepada seluruh rakyat Mesir kerana kuasa rakyat akhirnya Hosni Mubarak terpaksa meletakkan jawatan. Beliau menyerahkan kuasa kepada tentera untuk melakkukan apa sepatutnya dilakukan. Seluruh dunia perhatikan peralihan kuasa ini. Kita berharap pihak tentera cepat mengembalikan demokrasi ke tangan pihak awam bagi menentukan masa depan Negara Mesir seterusnya.

Pengajaran dari peristewa ini ialah setiap pemimpin jangan terlalu ego, sombong, angkoh dengan kuasa. Pemimpin perlu mendengar suara rakyat. Jangan terlalu tamak dengan kuasa. Tidak beramanah membaham harta rakyat semahu-mahunya. Menyeleweng, rasuah, makan komisyen berjuta-juta, menyalahgunaan kuasa dan kedudukan mencari kekayaan dan bermewah-mewahan menimpah-ruah, rakyat miskin papa kedana. Menguasai seluruh jentera kerajaan terutama pasukan polis dan tentera menjadi kuda tunggangan menjaga kuasa pemerintah.

Perlu ingat, bahawa tidak selamanya pihak polis dan tentera boleh menjadi tongkat dan benteng kepada pemerintahan yang zalim dan penindas rakyat. Lihatlah apa yang telah berlaku di Iraq, Indonesia, Filipina dan di Iran. Kebangkitan rakyat menumbangkan sebuah regim yang memerintah ala diktator. Kini di Mesir, beratus rakyatnya mengorbankan jiwa dan raganya demi masa depan rakyat Mesir yang lebih adil, bebas dan lebih berdemokrasi.

Curak pemerintahan UMNO di Malaysia adalah dalam bentuk yang sama dengan negara-negara yang disebutkan itu.

Di Mesir, apa yang berlaku peralihan kuasa kepada tentera, semua kita tidak mahu lmeihat pihak tentera menguasai pentadbiran Mesir seperti yang berlaku di Mynmar dan Algeria.Kembalikan kuasa memerintah kepada rakyat, kalau ini tidak berlaku, maka kekacauan akan terus berlaku yang mengakibat pihak lain (musuh) akan mengambil kesempatan yang akan merosakkan seluruh sistem negara Mesir.

Bagaimana pula dengan rakyat Malaysia, mahu mendiamkan diri begitu sahaja akan perkembangan yang berlaku di Mesir dan di Tunissia? Lakukanlah perubahan di PRU ke-13 nanti. Tukarkan pemerintan yang bersultan di hati dan beraja di mata dengan sebuah pemerintah yang lebih adil, tulus, ikhlas dan amanah. Kuburkan UMNO.

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Mubarak undur, tentera ambil alih Mesir

Presiden Mesir Hosni Mubarak akhirnya meletakkan jawatan dan meminta pihak tentera mentadbir negara itu, umum naib presiden Omar Suleiman.

Kenyataan ringkas di stesen televisyen nasional itu dibuat sehari selepas Mubarak bertegas tidak akan melepaskan jawatannya.

Berita pengundurannya itu disambut meriah oleh lebih sejuta rakyat Mesir yang berkumpul di Dataran Tahrir di Kaherah.Presiden dan keluarganya sebelum itu dilaporkan meninggalkan istana presiden di ibu negara ke Resort Laut Merah Sharm el-Sheihh.

Lelaki yang menerajui Mesir selama 30 tahun dan terlepas dariapda enam cubaan membunuh akhirnya terpaksa akur pada kehendak rakyat yang mahukan perubahan.Mubarak, 82, meletakkan jawatan hari ini selepas 18 hari protes antikerajaan tanpa gangguan - terbesar pernah dilangsungkan di negara itu.

Mubarak terhindar daripada banyak serangan sebelum ini tetapi suara rakyat akhirnya membuktikan sesuatu.

Enam kali pembunuh upahan cuba menamatkan riwayatnya. Perang sampai ke pintu rumah. Jiran mengebom negaranya. Kerajaan pimpinannya hampir muflis. Aktivis berulang kali menyumpahnya di jalan raya. Tetapi Mubarak selama itu terus juga berkuasa.

Kebanyakan rakyat Mesir masih belum dilahirkan apabila pendahulunyanya Anwar Sadat dibunuh pada 1981. Mubarak, ketika itu naib presiden, hanya beberapa meter daripada Sadat, dan turut terkena tembakan di tangan. Beliau mengangkat sumpah sebagai presiden lapan hari kemudian, pada 14 Oktober 1981.

Sumber : Malaysiakini

MUBARAK RESIGNS, HANDS POWER TO MILITARY
By PAUL SCHEMM and MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press

CAIRO – Egypt's vice president says Hosni Mubarak has resigned as president and handed control to the military.

Car horns were heard around Cairo in celebration after Vice President Omar Suleiman made the announcement on national TV on Friday.

"In these difficult circumstances that the country is passing through, President Hosni Mubarak has decided to leave the position of the presidency," Suleiman said. He has commissioned the armed forces council to direct the issues of the state."

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and handed power to the military.

Mubarak quits Cairo as a million marchby Jailan Zayan


CAIRO (AFP) – President Hosni Mubarak flew out of Cairo to his Red Sea retreat on Friday as more than a million furious Egyptians marched in cities around the country to demand he step down.

Egypt's army threw the 82-year-old strongman a lifeline, endorsing his plan to stay in office until September even as determined protesters marched on state television headquarters and the presidential palace.

Demonstrators sobbed as they conducted the weekly Muslim prayer in massed ranks in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the city plaza that has become a symbol and focal point of the revolt since it was occupied by protesters in late January.

The preacher choked with emotion as he gave the sermon and the crowd screamed "Leave! Leave!" at each mention of the president.

Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) confirmed he had flown to Sharm el-Sheikh, on Egypt's Red Sea Coast, where he has a holiday home, but this did nothing to quell the anger of the crowds thronging the streets of the capital.

"People here don't care if he's in the palace or not. We want him to quit the presidency," said 40-year-old Mohammed Hamdan, who works for an oil firm, as he joined the protest outside Mubarak's palace in the Cairo suburbs.

"He has to leave the country, our demands are clear, we want the entire NDP to be dissolved and to get out because they have destroyed the country," said Magdi Sabri, a smartly dressed middle-aged man outside state television.

In a statement read out on state television a little earlier, the military said it would guarantee that Mubarak follows through with his promises to reform the constitution to ensure a fair presidential poll in September.

But the protesters had wanted the army to go much further and unseat the 82-year-old autocrat, who has ceded unspecified powers to his vice president but refuses to quit despite weeks of demonstrations against his 30-year rule.

The military's decision enraged supporters of the pro-democracy movement, who were are already livid that Mubarak failed to announce his resignation in an address to the nation on Thursday night.

The army's Supreme Council had raised the hopes of many ahead of Mubarak's televised address, announcing they would act "in support of the legitimate demands of the people" and "take steps to protect the nation."

But Friday's announcement, read aloud on state television, suggested the military has now thrown its weight behind Mubarak and the concessions he has so far offered in a bid to calm the revolt.

It also said it was committed to "safeguarding the legitimate demands of the people and will work to implement them... for a peaceful transition of power and a free democratic society."

Outside the presidential palace, protesters reacted furiously to the military's announcement, which was read to the crowd by a colonel.

One demonstrator grabbed his microphone to berate the military. "You have disappointed us, all our hopes rested in you," he shouted, as the crowd began to chant slogans calling for Mubarak to be put on trial.

"No, no, this is not a coup," the colonel protested, insisting that the army would not take power itself.

In Tahrir Square, the epicentre of the daily protests in Cairo, hundreds of thousands of protesters packed in for the Friday prayer, united in fury.

In a show of solidarity in at least lower levels of the army, three Egyptian officers shed their weapons and uniforms and joined the protesters.

An impassioned preacher addressed the military in his sermon, exhorting them to "act in a way that will be acceptable to God on judgement day," shortly before fainting and being carried away through the crowd.

On Thursday night, hundreds of thousands had crowded into Tahrir Square to hear a speech that was widely expected to be Mubarak's last as president.

Instead, he delegated some of his powers to his ally and Egypt's former intelligence supremo, Omar Suleiman, while vowing he would stay in office until September and one day die in Egypt, ruling out a flight into exile.

Mubarak was also on a collision course with the international community, and in particular Egypt's key ally and donor, Washington.

In his speech on Thursday, he took a swipe at the United States and other countries that want a faster transition to democracy in the Arab world's most populous nation, vowing: "I have never bent to foreign diktats."

US President Barack Obama reacted with a flash of anger of his own, saying Mubarak had failed to map out "meaningful or sufficient" change, or to speak clearly enough to Egypt and the world.

Source: : http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110211/wl_mideast_afp/egyptpoliticsunrest_20110211155531