The balance of the riots continued to widen in Tunisia. After the violence of the weekend in west-central localities of the country, the death toll has risen to at least thirty-five, said, Tuesday, January 11, the president of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), Souhayr Belhassen. "The figure of 35 dead based on a list of names," said Souhayr Belhassen."But the total number of victims (death toll) is more important. It revolves around the fifties but it is an assessment," she added. The balance sheet "has tragically risen" after the riots on Saturday and Sunday in three cities in central Canada: Regueb, and Thala Kasserine, and the wounded were so numerous that "we can not count them," said Ms.
Belhassen Tunisia itself. Monday, further clashes occurred in Kasserine, in central-west. The authorities said four people were killed and eight policemen were wounded. The interior ministry ensures that "police were forced to defend himself" and that "groups attacked police stations (...) armed with Molotov cocktails and iron bars." But, according to an official of the General Union of Workers, the riots were over 50 killed over the last three days at Kasserine.
He said the situation is particularly chaotic in the city: it evokes "a night of violence, sniper fire, looting and theft of shops and homes by police personnel in plain clothes were then removed. Version confirmed by various witnesses. Sunday, the government reported Sunday fourteen people died during clashes at the weekend and Thala Kasserine.
Another NGO Defence of Human Rights, Amnesty International, said Monday that at least "23 people were killed by security forces" during the weekend clashes. According Belhassen, unrest has now spread to coastal cities, the heart of Tunisia's tourism. At the same time, a young Tunisian committed suicide by electrocution in a village in the region of Sidi Bouzid.
Hidouri Allaa, 23, graduated from college and unemployed, has climbed an electricity pylon to give the death Monday evening clinging to high voltage cables, said a teacher union. The young man had been shot in the leg in clashes that left one killed and several wounded on December 24 Bouazaine Menzel, according to a family friend.
This is the fifth suicide since Dec. 17, when Mohamed Bouaziz, 26, a street vendor without a license set himself on fire in protest against the seizure of his goods, sparking the riots unprecedented in Tunisia countries where high unemployment hits including youth.
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