While the city of Tunis is taken by the police after the curfew imposed, the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) has reported that there are 66 known dead and because of the unrest since mid-December. As reported today the president of FIDH, Souhayr Belhassen, those 66 deaths, of which the FIDH has the names have to add eight more bodies that have come to hospitals and are awaiting identification.Belhassen has denounced "the slaughter" and "madness" of this situation last night as only a dozen people were killed in the country in clashes with police. The president of the FIDH has called for "transparency" to the Tunisian Government, which has complained that there is only recognized a score of deaths so far and has not provided any figures on deaths among the agents of law enforcement.
It has also indicated that the main arteries of the capital has met this past night the curfew imposed by authorities, but not in the suburbs, and has insisted he "can not remain silent before the slaughter." Belhassen, who recalled that the figures of the FIDH is based on the reports in hospitals who send them unions and human rights organizations, has called "an international investigation into the UN" and a reaction of the international community.
In this regard, has urged the responsible EU diplomat, Catherine Ashton, to "suspend the negotiations" with Tunisia to achieve partnership status. The police took the capital in the Tunisian capital, the concern is greatest while the streets are made by police, reports Juan Miguel Muñoz.
There are more police officers than civilians. Guys with motorcycles guard shops and sidewalks on Avenue Habib Bourguiba, the main urban artery. The price increases of essential items in recent years, the huge unemployment in the country's agricultural interior forgotten, unemployment afflicting tens of thousands of graduates, rampant corruption and lack of freedom of expression are the ingredients a popular uprising that Ben Ali has failed to tackle.
In this spirit, the president got caught yesterday, at least rhetorically, to some opposition demands. He dismissed the Interior Minister Rafik Belhaj Kacem and Ahmed Friaa technocrat appointed in his place, announced the creation of a commission of inquiry into corruption and promised to release all detainees triggered protests in mid-December.
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