Tuesday, January 11, 2011

The lawyers denounced the revolt "Snipers in action, at least 50 deaths"

TUNIS - would be more than fifty victims of the clashes between demonstrators and security forces occurred in the last three days in the Kasserine, in the central region of Tunisia. To provide updated figures for the massacre was a representative of the national union 'UGTT', Sadok Mahmoudi, citing data from medical sources of the main hospital in the city of Kasserine, the epicenter of the insurgency.

Previously at least 35 people killed spoke from Paris, the President of the International Federation for Human Rights, Belhassen Souhayr. Much less dramatic information provided by the Tunisian government had admitted that two days ago the death of 14 people and now has adjusted the budget, explaining that four other civilians were killed during riots that took place yesterday at Kasserine.

"They were simple, unarmed citizens were killed under the blows of snipers, I saw myself out of my car that the police fired directly on people," said the lawyer Salma Abbasi. "We wonder who gave the order to shoot and who the police to retreat: the police yesterday was in fact present for the entire day of fighting, and then it suddenly disappeared immediately after the president's speech on TV," Abbasi continued.

"In the night between Saturday and Sunday at Thala nine people were killed - added Monia Bou Ali, another witness, also a lawyer - Eight of them had been shot in the head, chest or neck, the ninth leg. But for five hours has been left without relief road, because those who tried to approach were prevented, as it was said that he was already dead.

" What Tunisian drama is a collective made up of many private dramas. Today, another young man took his own life: the Hidouri, 23, unemployed graduates and killed himself climbing a pole and then jump on the electricity voltage cables in the central region of Sidi Bouzid, one of those where the protests and repression are more violent.

According to a member of the teachers union that gave the news agency Agence France Presse, the young man was wounded in the legs during the events of 24 December Bouzaine Menzel, where one person was killed and several others were injured. This is the fifth suicide by December 17, when he took his life Mohamed Bouaziz, 26, a street vendor who had set fire to protest the seizure of agricultural products which was trying to sell without a license.

That death had begun to demonstrations against high prices and against the regime of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. The increase in bread prices had exploded the exasperation of the people of Tunisia and also that of neighboring Algeria. The bloodiest incident occurred last weekend, however, especially in areas of Regueb, Thala Kasserine and the same.

Meanwhile, after the controversy over the long silence of Paris, today the government spokesman Francois Baroin said that "France deplores the violence that made the victims in Tunisia. Only dialogue will help to overcome the economic and social problems of the country ". "As for the Tunisian blogger arrested, we do not have accurate information at this stage - added Baroin - but remember our attachment to freedom of expression."

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