Monday, January 24, 2011

Hundreds of protesters from reaching the interior of Tunisia's capital

.- Hundreds of protesters from the interior of Tunisia began to arrive today in a motorcade to the capital of the country to join the protests demanding the departure of the ministers of former transitional government, according to Efe found. About a thousand people from the region of Sidi Buzid in the Midwest, arrived in the central avenue Habib Bourguiba of capital and focused at the Interior Ministry headquarters, shouting slogans against the executive transition and rupture asking with the previous regime.

"Down with the transitional government was corrupt country," chanted the demonstrators, who included dozens of young students, restrained by a military cordon prevented them from access to the headquarters of the Interior. Protesters took on Saturday in a caravan from the region of Sidi Buzid, where social revolt began that overthrew President Zine el Abidine ben Ali in all sorts of cars, trucks and vans, and toured some areas in the Midwest before reaching to the capital.

Mongi Buazizi Buazizi-brother Mohamed, the young salesman that triggered the social unrest after burning to bonzo on December 17 in Sidi Buzid Efe said more than 200 vehicle convoy made up last night, called "Caravan of liberation." On the Internet and through social networks made appeals to the inhabitants of the Tunisian interior join in the caravan left the town of Menzel Buzaiane, south of Sidi Buzid, which suffered the first casualties of the revolt in Tunisia.

"We have come to the capital to finish off the remnants of the dictatorship. We can not allow ourselves to steal the revolution," he told Efe Nasim, a student of agronomy Regueb City and explained that the original idea was to run the country for three or four days, but decided to come to the capital because "there was time to bring down the Executive." After spending some time with the Ministry of Interior, the demonstrators marched to the headquarters of the Government Palace in the old medina of Tunis, to join the Tunisians who claim there forming a new government without the ministers of Ben Ali.

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