Middle+East+Uprising


 * Middle East Uprising **
 * By Sarah F. **

If you've been watching the news then you've probably heard about the Uprising in the Middle East. You may be wondering, "What is this all about?"

 In places like Egypt and Libya, they don't have a democracy. Their leaders have been ruling their country for many, many years. The citizens of these countries wanted a change in leadership. So, they started to protest. However, this protesting was full of chaos. If you were in charge of a country would you want your country to be out of control? Probably not.

 These leaders reacted to the protesters in a few ways. The leader of Egypt, Mohamed Mubarak tried to keep control, but ultimately resigned, leaving the citizens to form the government of their choosing. The leader of Libya however, wouldn't give up so easily. He actually started to commit genocide. Genocide is the killing of masses of people because of a certain belief that they have. In this case that belief was in democracy. Right now the United States is at war with Libya to help the protesters. The situation is dire as the citizens have few weapons to defend themselves. Countries are trying to send supplies to these people.

I hope that what's going on makes more sense now. These people are fighting for their rights. They've taken a huge risk to make a change in their country.