Egypt conflict - Arab Spring has become a nightmare
If anything, as the foreign ministers of Europe, including Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore, grapple with the complexities of a situation that gets worse by the day, the crisis engulfing Africa’s most populous country has deepened following the court order for the release of former president Hosni Mubarak, who was toppled by the 2011 uprising and sentenced to life in jail. How Egypt’s fragile Arab Spring has become a nightmare.
While the ailing 85-year-old Mubarak might seem to have no political role to play in shaping the future of a fast-changing Egypt, the symbolic reverberations of his release are bound to trigger fears a new form of military government is looming ominously in the shadow of the tanks that now patrol streets of Cairo and other cities.
