Flash Back news -2011

·         December 2011: Cuban president Raul Castro grants amnesty to 2,900 prisoners

·         December 2011: Thousands of women demostrate in Cairo against military rule

·         November 2011: Parliamentary elections in Egypt

·         October 2011: Peaceful and democratic transition of power in Zambia

·         October 2011: Free elections in Kyrgyzstan, the only country in Central Asia where the outcome of an election is not known beforehand

·         October 2011: Tunisia holds its first democratic elections

·         October 2011: Protests against the financial world spread from the USA to Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Athens, Berlin, Rome and London

·         October 2011: The Burmese regime frees dozens of political prisoners

·         September 2011: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas applies for Palestinian statehood at the United Nations

·         September 2011: Saudi Arabia grants women the right to vote in municipal elections

·         August 2011: Libyan rebels enter Tripoli

·         August 2011: The Philippines government holds peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Kuala Lumpur

·         July 2011: Sri Lanka allows free elections in Tamil areas

·         July 2011: Southern Sudan becomes independent

·         June 2011: Russia urges Syria to implement democratic reforms

·         June 2011: Thousand of Israelis march in Tel Aviv in favor of an Palestinian state

·         June 2011: The government of mainland China receives a representative of the Lybian rebels

·         May 2011: Free elections in Nigeria with little violence

·         April 2011: Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas sign reconciliation deal?

·         March 2011: A popoular revolt threatens the Qaddafi regime in Libya

·         February 2011: Italian prime minister Berlusconi is indicted yet again

·         January 2011: A popoular revolt overthrows the dictator of Tunisia

·         January 2011: South Sudan votes peacefully to secede from Sudan

·         January 2011: Estonia becomes the 17th country to join the eurozone