Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Riots in Tunisia: Ben Ali is using force

 The army shoots sharp, but she does not get the situation under control has long since become of the youth protests in Tunisia, a rebellion against the regime. For the first time in 23 years seems to be the sole rule of President Ben Ali is seriously threatened. Tunis - The revolt is driven by pain: Every day there are new deaths in the riots in Tunisia, every day, therefore new funeral processions that end in riots.


Then reload the security forces, firing into the crowd. "Ben Ali, along with you!" Chanted the demonstrators. People fall to the ground, it flows blood. How many victims of this vicious circle of violence has claimed to date is controversial: the government speaks of 14 dead journalists were documented by Monday evening the names of more than 30 victims, the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) said on Tuesday in Paris at least 35 dead since the weekend, the TV station al-Arabiya, one relying on information from human rights activists and 50 deaths, according to Tunisian sources there are up to 70 deaths.

become longer seems out of the rebellion of unemployed young people, a popular uprising against the dictatorship-like regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to be. The foreign camera crews filmed images of the protests show that the dissatisfaction is not solely for the youth businessmen in suits and women with shopping bags on the arm can be seen in the ranks of the demonstrators.

Well as posters with the slogan "Down with dictatorship" suggests that there are now about more than just youth unemployment. More and more reports of unrest in provincial cities also show that happened to the spontaneous rebellion wildfire. In the third week of turmoil the state power in Tunisia seems hardly to be master of the situation.

The Ben Ali's television appearance on Monday afternoon, who wanted to calm things down, worked for far less confident than usual. The President maneuvered the one hand, he condemned the protesters as a "gang masked hoodlums," the "terrorist acts committed for which there is no excuse," the other, he announced the creation of 300,000 jobs by the end of 2012 - and went to one of the core demands of him as a "crook" insulting demonstrators.

In Tunisia, the unemployment rate among young people exceeds 30 percent. Without relationships, and favors a job is hard to find. That the regime is serious about the unrest, but to suggest the president had tried, at weekends have to admit the Communications Minister Samir al Obaidy. "The government and the political leadership has heard the message," he told the Arab television station al-Jazeera.

"We will review what needs to be checked and corrected what needed to be corrected. Obaidy also announced far-reaching investment, with the living conditions of the population should be improved. The President had released five billion dollars for development projects, the communications minister.

Triggered the flight of revolutionary romanticism "jasmine revolution" baptized public events were the suicides of two young people in mid-December. Mohammed Buzazi poured over that time in front of a police station with gasoline and lit himself. The unemployed high school graduate who got by as a vegetable dealer wanted to, protest against the confiscation of his goods, but especially against the lack of opportunities for young graduates.

Hussein Nagi Felhi followed a few days later, his example: he climbed a pylon, shouted "No to poverty, no to unemployment" and then touched the 30,000-volt line. Since then, Tunisia is in turmoil. While some in street clashes with the police, Autifen set fire to shops and looting, to make others in Internet-Fn and blog entries air.

"Our generation is desperate," the young Algerian Nina B. on LeMond. Fri "We suffer from unemployment and housing shortages, while Algeria has 155 billion U.S. dollars in foreign oil. Our country is in the hands of a corrupt elite." This view is shared by Western governments. As a "mafia-like" judged the U.S.

Embassy in Tunisia recently, the system of domination Ben Ali. In the message published by WikiLeaks dispatches U.S. diplomat reported to Washington, under the pretext of fighting Islamic extremism, media, trade unions and opposition would be ruthlessly suppressed. At the annual monitoring democracy ranking of British magazine "Economist" Tunisia is ranked last at number 144 of 167

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