"We hope to bring this revolution beyond the borders of Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt over the Maghreb, against dictatorships and democracy." Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian journalist and dissident, is convinced that the 'bread riots' that filled the streets of his country from December 17 last year and took down the regime of Ben Ali was only the first spark of a wider rebellion in Arab world.Born in Tunis in 1950, is Bensedrine human rights activist and editor of Kalima, online newspaper censored in Tunisia. What is the situation on the streets of Tunis? After months of struggle, the people have organized and young people were mobilized to control the territory against the armed remnants of the old dictatorship.
The people also stop the militants and hand them over to the police and this is a great success for us. It means that civilians are able to coordinate and that the army protects them. How was the flight of Ben Ali from the country? The people wanted him and his entire family fled the country, corrupt and corrupting.
They had had enough. They could no longer bear the humiliation, exploitation of their resources. And now what will happen? Meanwhile, it established a transitional government. I hope that after 60 days people can get together to decide to form a new assembly and rewrite the constitution, a new electoral code and new laws.
All we have now are laws that have not done anything but keep the regime alive. And in the next election will be the candidate if they want, even political prisoners who were released. Ala al-Aswani, one of the best known writers in the Arab world believes that what happened was just the spark to trigger the reaction of other Maghreb countries.
We hope so. Too often we hear political scientists and intellectuals of Europe that we feel immature for democracy. They argue that we are a people culturally inclined to dictatorship and authoritarian regimes and we can not aspire to government participates. This is all wrong. Are we capable of and how, and without interference from outside.
Egypt and Algeria will be the next to take over the rebellion? E 'likely. We export our model because we believe that without dictatorships, Arab countries may appear to modernity and to develop better partnership with Europe. Much better than has been done so far. For this reason we ask to speak to powerful people who have been elected by the people, not dictators.
And do not say that it is from them that we want to be controlled. There are European countries considered close to right now? I believe that no one is under the old regime. Even France, which was on his side until two days after the fall, sought to marginalize our invitation to the despot.
There are the responsibility of Paris in the deaths of many civilians? Unfortunately, yes. Certainly Sarkozy gave the green light to crackdown on the night between Saturday and Sunday (8 and January 9, ed), where they were killed over 50 people. All Tunisians think so. But now we are in a new era and we need that France respects our new democracy, which is constructive and not think of the old regime.
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