Fighting continues in Tunisia

The voltage does not drop in Tunisia. The government reported violent clashes between demonstrators and police force to Thala in the west, on the night of Saturday 8 to Sunday, January 9. An official death toll reported two dead and eight wounded. A report prepared by the local population with the reported four dead and six wounded.

The news agency gave the names of victims, obtained from people who requested anonymity: Jomni Marwan, 20, Boulaaba Ahmed, 30, Mohamed Omri, 17, and Boulaaba Nouri, 30. The government said the police acted "in self-defense" at Thala. "Several people were injured among the police, three seriously," the government statement, which asserts that the police opened fire after conducting fire warning shots to stop protesters away to make government buildings.

On Saturday, a new hawker set himself on fire in Sidi Bouzid. Aged 50, Moncef Ben K., a married father, was doused with petrol while the market was held in the city. He was taken by ambulance and his condition is considered serious. At the same location in Sidi Bouzid, agricultural capital in the heart of Tunisia, a seller of fruits and vegetables, Mohamed Bouazizi, 26, was slain by fire on December 17 before dying on January 4.

His gesture of despair caused a wave of protests and demonstrations against unemployment and the high cost of living unprecedented twenty years throughout the country. Since mid-December, several other cases of suicides were reported. Saturday, the city of Metlaoui in the mining region of Gafsa, burying a young man who had also set himself on fire.

At a public rally held Saturday in Tunis, the General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT) single trade union, has supported claims "legitimate" events in Sidi Bouzid and elsewhere. Hundreds of people strictly monitored by hundreds of plainclothes police and anti-riot units, were then observed a minute of silence to "martyrs" of social movement.

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