Why must uprisings and revolutions (within this context) occur? Almost always, the term revolution has a negative connotation. However one must understand that drastic times call for drastic measures. Uprisings do not occur spontaneously. Sometimes in order for people to live peacefully in their countries, they must hold their government accountable for the latter's inability to satisfy the former's need. Whilst under solitary confinement for her role in the Burmese 8888 uprising, Aung San Suu Kyi wrote her speech “from Towards a True Refuge” where she explains the causes of insecurity in many countries around the world. Years later, in 2011 the Jasmine revolution began in Tunisia as the people held demonstrations against their corrupt government.
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Being in a country where the government is unresponsive and autocratic can be poison to the people's present and future. From her experience in advocating for democracy in military-controlled Myanmar, Kyi relates the imminent aftermath of such regimes with an example. Even though at first, the Soviet Union's authoritarian rule kept the people in check, it did not take long for its division into many states to occur,"many of them stamped with a fierce racial assertiveness..." (Kyi, 1993, lines 19-24) In similar fashion, President Zine al- Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia had been ruling the country for 26 years. For a while, he managed to provide a considerable level of stability and growth economically; In all this, however, political suppression, corruption, and poverty lurked, generally causing the Jasmine Revolution.(Britannica, 2016) Also, Ghonim declares that " Egypt is going through one of the worst periods in its history on all fronts...Absolute power corrupts..."(Ghonim, 2012, lines 30-60, 90-94); The rate of unemployment, as well as poverty and deaths, is shocking was skyrocketing. When a government is dictatorial and does not prioritize justice, tolerance and the people's needs in general, rebellion is
Being in a country where the government is unresponsive and autocratic can be poison to the people's present and future. From her experience in advocating for democracy in military-controlled Myanmar, Kyi relates the imminent aftermath of such regimes with an example. Even though at first, the Soviet Union's authoritarian rule kept the people in check, it did not take long for its division into many states to occur,"many of them stamped with a fierce racial assertiveness..." (Kyi, 1993, lines 19-24) In similar fashion, President Zine al- Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia had been ruling the country for 26 years. For a while, he managed to provide a considerable level of stability and growth economically; In all this, however, political suppression, corruption, and poverty lurked, generally causing the Jasmine Revolution.(Britannica, 2016) Also, Ghonim declares that " Egypt is going through one of the worst periods in its history on all fronts...Absolute power corrupts..."(Ghonim, 2012, lines 30-60, 90-94); The rate of unemployment, as well as poverty and deaths, is shocking was skyrocketing. When a government is dictatorial and does not prioritize justice, tolerance and the people's needs in general, rebellion is