Monday, January 24, 2011

rotesters step up their protests back in Tunisia.

They fear that tear followers of ex-dictator Ben Ali to power itself - and set the transitional government under pressure. Before the Treasury there were street battles. Tunis - The situation in Tunisia is very tense: Protests against the transitional government has once again clashes between police and demonstrators given.

Witnesses said protesters were advanced on the grounds of the government complex in the capital Tunis, and had destroyed the windows of the Treasury. They tried to prevent officials from entering the government building. A reporter for the news agency reported that protesters had thrown stones and bottles at the police.

The security forces used tear gas and then drove back the people. About injured there was initially no information. In the protest were also numerous people involved from the impoverished rural population, who had joined the demonstrations until Sunday in Tunis for more democracy. About a thousand people had migrated from Sidi Bouzid from the seat of government.

In the central Tunisian city of revolt against dictator Ben Ali had begun. "The nation has come to overthrow the government," they shouted, and called for a "clean" government without representatives of the ousted regime. They were supported by demonstrators from other parts of the country.

Many participants in this "caravan of liberation" were according to French media reports, despite the existence of a curfew at night to Monday on the streets of the capital. Before the official residence of Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi, they built according to a correspondent on tents and sleeping bags rolled out.

you do not want to pull off before the transitional government was overthrown, so they would spend the night before the seat of government, the protesters announced after reports of the station France Info. CDU foreign policy expert Polenz calls for more EU involvement in the protests are directed against members of the leadership who want to enter even after the flight of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in the North African country on the sound.

Ben Ali has sold to Saudi Arabia. Prime Minister Ghannouchi remained in office to lead a coalition of the unit. The protesters accuse him, however, that former top leaders of Ben Ali's ruling party to retain key personnel. On Monday it was announced that three other politicians from the close environment, Ben Ali was placed under house arrest: The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in parliament, Ruprecht Polenz (CDU), now calls for more EU involvement in Tunisia.

Because states such as Iran or Saudi Arabia would take effect on development in Tunisia, Europe was called in a special way, "said Polenz the Rheinische Post. "We need a strategy that promotes freedom and rule of law." In Tunisia, could now come about, "what democracy and rule of law is much closer than anything else we've seen in the Arab world," said Polenz.

"We had become used to put out of necessity on the authoritarian Arab regimes, because we saw them as a bulwark against the Islamist chaos." Meanwhile, he believed, however, "it is rather the other way around, that authoritarian governments act as a hothouse for Islamism."

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