The public birse in the Mid Eist ower undemocratic and corruptit governaments conteinaes tae spreid. Furst Tunisia an Egypt, than Bahrain, Yemen an Libya, an nou the Ba’ath regime in Syria is the latest tae wutness a sairious challenge ti hits rule. The Ba’ath pairtie haes ruled Syria sin 1963 whan hit tuik pouer in a coup d’etat. A state o emergencie an suspension o civil liberties haes been kep in place in the kintra fur aa that time.