SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Guardian - The spectre of Syria silenced Arab protest. But now it’s finding its voice
Nesrine Malik cites the Sudanese uprising, and anti-government protests in Egypt and Lebanon, to argue that Arabs are beginning to realise that they have been “tricked into submitting to an unacceptable present,” b excessively fearing the consequences of ousting autocratic leaders.
Malik highlights the “Syria bogeyman” that was summoned when the Sudanese uprising began, whereby the Syrian scenario is presented as an inevitability that “things certainly will fall apart” if people demand the overthrow of their leaders.
However, Malik argues that the Sudanese uprising is a rebuke to all those who think that in the Arab world should have no alternative to strongman leadership, noting that the protests in Sudan, Lebanon and Egypt are united by a common cause to remove “an establishment that for too long has drained resources.”