Tuesday, 29 March 2011

FT.com - Comment: Kuwait shows revolution’s nuances

On Kuwait City’s seafront close to midnight, half a dozen young men are seated on rugs as part of a tiny and almost genteel political protest.

They are calling for wide-ranging political reforms – but without the intensity or single-minded intent of their Egyptian counterparts who forced President Hosni Mubarak from power only last month.

“Don’t think it’s like [Cairo’s] Tahrir Square – it’s 180-degrees different,” warns one of the Kuwaiti six. “We don’t want to change our president, because we love him.”

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