Missing of Jasmine on Yahoo

We have seen how Jasmine Revolution spread like wild fires in the Middle East and now China is not spared as Chinese security officials are busy in detaining and questioning activists staging protects in major metropolitans over the past few days.

The Jasmine Revolution which were initiated by the distress people in Tunisia then spread to other Middle East countries has gathered strengths and great momentums with the help of modern telecommunication tools particularly internet. Twitter and facebook, which supposed to be social communication tools, out of the sudden play such an important role in mobilization of pro-democratic protects in the affected countries.

China seems very alert of how powerful the internet can be and as I tried to search through the Yahoo China website for 茉莉花 a.k.a Jasmine flower, there was none findings associated with it. I guess Yahoo, under the tremendous pressure by the Chinese government, intentionally prohibiting the search of this powerful and influential word by their website in China.

I can’t imagine such thing will happen before the internet era and revolutions in the past couldn’t avoid massacres and bloodshed resulting in thousands and thousands of lives scarified and families destroyed. Bloodshed still happens in the Middle East as the dictators are still recalcitrant in abiding to the plights of the people in distress to change their governments for the betterment of its people.

Middle East countries are rich in oil and gas and generating multi billions revenues every year but the people there are still struggling in poverty. I guess if we look at our country, similar things are also happening. We have abundance of natural resources but thousands and thousands of people especially those natives are still living in distress conditions and you ask yourself where're those wealth gone to? Well, along the way some people especially those holding high offices could have raked in billions, building their empires and wealth that ordinary people can’t even dream of.

As the Prime Minister put in quite sometimes back that the Jasmine flowers would never flourish here as our circumstances are not the same as what occurring in the Middle East. But surely he can’t deny that there are those politicians that are in the power for far too long, as there were allegations that some of them have accumulated their wealth that can even last for many generations.