PM Modi praised the Festival of Democracy, emphasizing its aim to spotlight India's ancient democratic traditions and foster global dialogues on contemporary values.
old habits of tyranny die hard. you have this military regime, which has been in power since 1952, for six decades egypt was ruled in a very authoritarian way. it had a rich democratic heritage, but that was before 1952. i think egyptians have the best chance in the arab world as a whole for making that transition to a democratic future. it s a culture with a legal framework, and i think we saw the best of egypt in tahrir. we will see some deviation from that. men are not angels. but on balance i still vote for the egyptian revolution that it will bring egyptians a measure of relief and a measure of progress. and that brings us straight to tunisia. ivan, despite the situation in egypt, you seem to draw a different sort of comparison in tunisia, the other post revolution country here. are things different?
sanjay? it s hard to hear and fouad, i know it s not been that much time obviously since the revolution in egypt. but does this surprise you what i ivan is saying? i think ivan had a wonderful way of putting it, when he said old habits die hard. you have this military regime, which has been in power since 1952, for six decades egypt was ruled in a very authoritarian way. it had a rich democratic heritage, but that was before 1952. i think egyptians have the best chance in the arab world as a whole for making that transition to a democratic future. it s a culture with a legal frame work, and i think we saw the best of egypt in tahrir. we will see some deviation from that. men are not angels.
tahrir square and taken to a military detainment center. some of them, including these women, were subjected to forced virginity tests upon threat of electrocution from egyptian soldiers. these are stunning allegations of human rights abuses that the spokesman for the military and for egypt s ruling military council are denying. sanjay? it s hard to hear and fouad, i know it s not been that much time obviously since the revolution in egypt. but does this surprise you what ivan sa r saying first of all, and what are you i do are going to be the biggest challenges for egypt? i think ivan had a wonderful way of putting it, when he said old habits of tyranny die hard. you have this military regime, which has been in power since 1952, for six decades egypt was ruled in a very authoritarian way. it had a rich democratic
i think ivan had a wonderful way of putting it, when he said old habits die hard. you have this military regime, which has been in power since 1952, for six decades egypt was ruled in a very authoritarian way. it had a rich democratic heritage, but that was before 1952. i think egyptians have the best chance in the arab world as a whole for making that transition to a democratic future. it s a culture with a legal frame work, and i think we saw the best of egypt in tahrir. we will see some deviation from that. men are not angels. but on balance i still vote for the egyptian revolution that it will bring egyptians a measure of relief and a measure of progress. and that brings us straight to tunisia. ivan, despite the situation in egypt, you seem to draw a different sort of comparison in tunisia, the other post