admin | December 11th, 2011 – 12:31 pm
http://invisiblearabs.com/?p=4037
Oggi in Italia le donne sono di nuovo in piazza. Ancora una volta, perché ci vorrà tempo e tenacia per levare questa patina di squallore che ha segnato la nostra vita – di italiane e di donne – negli anni più recenti. E allora ho pensato di celebrare e festeggiare questa giornata con il bel viso di Tawakkol Karman, una delle tre vincitrici del Premio Nobel per la Pace edizione 2011. Nessuna indulgenza alle cerimonie: quello che vi propongo è il discorso che Tawakkol Karman ha pronunciato ieri, quando ha ricevuto il premio. Se avrete la pazienza di leggerlo (e per chi non sa l’inglese, ci sono dei meravigliosi traduttori online che possono aiutare la comprensione) capirete la caratura dei giovani arabi e delle giovani arabe. Capirete perché le loro rivoluzioni non si sono ancora spente, e perché queste ragazze e questi ragazzi non cedono alle sirene delle nostre (occidentali) parole così ormai vuote di contenuto. Quando parlano di valori, di democrazia, di futuro, di rispetto, di dignità, di non-violenza, lo fanno con cognizione di causa, pretendendo per sé né più né meno di tutto questo. Sono lo specchio della nostra cattiva coscienza. E Tawakkol Karman lo dice chiaro e tondo. “Il mondo democratico, che ci ha detto tanto sulle virtù della democrazia e del buon governo, non deve essere indifferente a quello che sta avvenendo in Yemen e in Siria, e a quello che è successo prima in Tunisia, Egitto e Libia, e che accade in ogni paese arabo e non arabo che aspira alla libertà. Tutto questo non è altro che lavoro duro, quando nasce una democrazia, che richiede sostegno e assistenza. Non paura e prudenza”.
E per noi donne, questi ragazzi e queste ragazze sono la speranza, la pervicacia e la forza che per troppo tempo abbiamo tenuta nascosta in un cassetto. Tawakkol e le altre ci hanno mostrato che è tempo di riaprirlo, quel cassetto, e vedere cosa è rimasto.
Buon 11 dicembre. A tutte, e a tutti quelli che saranno con noi.
I accept the award on my behalf and on behalf of the Yemeni and Arab revolutionary youth, who are leading today’s peaceful struggle against tyranny and corruption with moral courage and political wisdom.
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The revolutions of the Arab spring in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria, and the movement towards revolutions in other Arab countries such as Algeria, Morocco, Bahrain, Sudan and others, in terms of motivation, driving power and objectives, didn’t take place on isolated islands cut off from all the rapid and astonishing developments and changes which our world is witnessing. The Arab people have woken up just to see how poor a share of freedom, democracy and dignity they have. And they revolted. This experience is somewhat similar to the spring that swept throughout Eastern Europe after the downfall of the Soviet Union. The birth of democracies in Eastern Europe has been difficult and victory emerged only after bitter struggle against the then existing systems. Similarly, the Arab world is today witnessing the birth of a new world which tyrants and unjust rulers strive to oppose, but in the end, this new world will inevitably emerge.
The Arab people who are revolting in a peaceful and civilized manner have, for so many decades, been oppressed and suppressed by the regimes of authoritarian tyrants who have indulged themselves deeply in corruption and in looting the wealth of their people. They have gone too far in depriving their people of freedom and of the natural right to a dignified life. They have gone too far in depriving them of the right to participate in the management of their personal affairs and the affairs of their communities. These regimes have totally disregarded the Arab people as a people with a legitimate human existence, and have let poverty and unemployment flourish among them in order to secure that the rulers and their family members after them will have full control over the people. Allow me to say that our oppressed people have revolted declaring the emergence of a new dawn, in which the sovereignty of the people, and their invincible will, will prevail. The people have decided to break free and walk in the footsteps of civilized free people of the world.
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Our peaceful popular youth revolution has demonstrated that the values and objectives of freedom, democracy, human rights, freedom of expression and press, peace, human coexistence, fight against corruption and organized crime, war on terrorism, and resistance to violence, extremism and dictatorship, are values, ideals, demands and objectives of common human interest, and are cherished by the whole international community. These are not subject to division, selectivity or cancellation under the pretext of differences in human characteristics or the requirements of sovereignty in any way.
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I would like to emphasize that the Arab spring revolutions have emerged with the purpose of meeting the needs of the people of the region for a state of citizenship and the rule of law. They have emerged as an expression of people’s dissatisfaction with the state of corruption, nepotism and bribery. These revolutions were ignited by young men and women who are yearning for freedom and dignity. They know that their revolutions pass through four stages which can’t be bypassed:
– Toppling the dictator and his family
– Toppling his security and military services and his nepotism networks
– Establishing the institutions of the transitional state.
– Moving towards constitutional legitimacy and establishing the modern civil and democratic state.
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