Saturday, February 12, 2011

Riots, injured and arrested in the protests in Algiers

The wick of Tunisia and Egypt try to turn in Algeria, whose capital, witnesses said, clashes are taking place and there are dozens of prisoners and detainees. Judging by the deployment of police in Algiers is alive today the largest demonstration in U.S. history. No less than 30,000 agents, 16% of the country's police are mobilized to prevent the protest, bringing together the Constitutional Democratic Party (RCD), one of the organizers.

To organize such a deployment of police, Abdelghani Hamel, director of the police brought in reinforcements and suspended the warrants of its staff in Algiers and other cities such as Oran, where he promotes opposition marches or rallies. Protesters call request changes to the regime of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

About 3,000 protesters remained concentrated near the central Plaza del Primero de Mayo, where a strong police cordon prevented the expected development of the march, reports EFE. Those detained several leaders of the National Coordinator for Democracy and Change (NCDC), convener of the protest, as well as trade unionists and the LADDH and other civil society organizations.

Journalists were also arrested some Algerian media, and the Arabic daily El Khabar. The president of the LADDH, Mustafa Buchachi, has addressed the marchers, urging them to abandon the rally to avoid confrontation, but the majority persists in its attempt to protest peacefully to demand changes in the scheme.

With shouts of "Bouteflika get out" or "We're sick of this power," the demonstrators, many of them young people from all walks of life, carrying placards with slogans like "down the system" or "we want a country run by young people and not the old. " Also the song repeatedly screams "power murderer" specialty was when the police have made several attempts at forcible intervention.

City Armoured The daily Al Watan, close to the opposition, has said in its Saturday edition that the capital is in a "state of siege." "It's a real deployment of terror, the city is deserted," he continues. In the streets I can appreciate the buses and trucks of police. and many actors around the city and "armed with Kalashnikov." To fall yesterday afternoon, vans full of riot police had taken up positions in the capital, Algiers, near the Place du May 1, where the National Coordinator for Change and Democracy (NCCD) has made an appointment at eleven morning to protesters.

Police have established controls on the bus, as revealed by the Algerian press, to prevent the inhabitants of the capital received reinforcements of Kabylia, the region most unruly of the country. But he had been ordered to avoid clashes with protesters, and has been banned from shooting firearms.

The Algerian League of Human Rights (LADDH), part of the coordinator, reported the arrest for several hours in Oran five of its militants to "scare." Civil Government in Algiers on Monday banned the movement now intends to require nothing less "than to leave the system." The state of emergency, which prohibits protesters, runs for 19 years.

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika promised last week to lift it quickly, but not in the capital, where, "for reasons of public order, banned the protests continue. The coordinator gathers a secular political party, several independent trade unions, youth organizations and human rights NGOs, but has the support of moderate Islamist-inspired movements or the Social Democratic Front of Socialist Forces.

The bearded (Islamists) have been grouped under the baton of former Prime Minister Ahmed Benbitour, as National Alliance for Change, while the Social Democrats are for free, but neither supports the call for today. This division of the opposition that the event bodes not have much success.

Abdennur Yahia Ali, president of the LADDH, who at 90 years will manifest itself, he believes, however, that "there will be many people." "Although their parties and trade unions convened, many of the militants individual capacity," he says by phone. "Young people do not fail," he predicts.

Social unrest is chronic in Algeria with his wealth of health-strikes has been paralyzed, and protests. Now add the public immolation. Yesterday died a standing, fourth from last month of the twenty who have tried.

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