The Tunisians have driven their president - and in the neighboring country, the state leadership nervous. Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi criticized the protests: the citizens acted vilig. Is he afraid to skip the rage? U.S. diplomats described the Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi as a man who is plagued by paranoia, anxiety and neuroses.Gaddafi's recent remarks, however, have a very real background: In neighboring Tunisia angry citizens just their President Zine el-Abidine Ben deposed Ali, who had to flee abroad. Gaddafi criticized the actions of the people. "It hurts me very much what happens in Tunisia," he said, according to the state news agency Jana.
The Tunisians witnessed bloodshed and lawlessness, because people have tried in a hurry to get rid of their president. It was Ben Ali assured them but to give up after three years, his office said Gaddafi. There is no better leader than him. Many Tunisians are likely to respond to such words with incomprehension.
After mass protests and riots forced them Ben Ali on Friday to fly to Saudi Arabia. Gaddafi also now seems worried. His power is based on the military and a strong security apparatus. And in Libya, people get impatient. The head of state in Tripoli recently tried to curb public anger over price increases, by granting special discounts.
Demonstrations, they should be prevented. Already last week, had urged U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Arab rulers, the events of Tunisia as a warning to leave. "The people of the corruption in the authorities and in the rigid political systems have had enough. They demand more effective reform and opening," she said in front of Arab diplomats and business people in Qatar.
Who would not bring about change, "sink into the sand", one could reduce the problems for a while, "but not forever," said Clinton. The "Jasmine Revolution" in Tunisia has a signal effect in the region. "Tunisia - the road brings change," wrote about the pan-Arab TV station al-Jazeera coverage of the duration of the protests at the North African Mediterranean coast.
Hundreds of millions of viewers in the Arab world can identify with this revolution, but they live in similar poverty. A nation that has enough of a nation that rebels: the riots in Tunisia have captured the zeitgeist of the Arab world, Rami Khouri, a political scientist said at the American University of Beirut, the New York Times.
In Tunisia, the situation remains unclear after the appointment of the new transitional president Foued Mebazaâ. The power struggle over the future of the country is underway. Mebzaa promises democratic change, in a "government of national unity" are also oppositional forces are involved.
But still, the old elite in power: Mebazaâ is considered a follower of the ousted Ben Ali. Mebazaâ is now to prepare for new elections - but opponents fear of being overwhelmed. "If an election is now quickly organized the opposition can not organize itself," a 25-year-old said in Tunis.
Tunisia was not used to democracy, opposition politicians have been under Ben Ali little chance bekanntzuwerden and present their program. "If we choose too early, people come back from the old system to power," said Nefzaoui. In the early hours of Sunday were in the capital Tunis heard shots again - despite the continued state of emergency in force and a curfew.
Tunisian journalists alleged that the army action against members of the bodyguard Ben Ali. There was no confirmation that it initially not. Also of possible first cases of lynching is reported. Background is the violent death of Imed Trabelsi. The businessman was a nephew of Ben Ali's wife, he was regarded as a symbol of corruption.
On Friday he was stabbed by unknown persons, the Tunisian private channel reported Nessma TV in the early hours of Sunday. As announced on Sunday also has a seriously injured on Friday in Tunis press photographer for a German passport The 32-year-old Lucas Mebrouk Dolega had been hit during the riots at close range by a tear gas grenade to the head.
"His condition is very serious," said his mother in Paris. Her son was being treated at a hospital in Tunis and was not transported. Dolega photographed in Tunisia for the European Pressphoto Agency (epa). He is the second foreign journalist who was injured in the riots. A U.S. photographer had been shot.
Because of the nightly curfew, hundreds of people were sitting on the night of Sunday at the Tunis airport set. "The situation is tense, no one is allowed to leave the airport," said a soldier. The restaurants ran out of food, were formed long lines, travelers tried to buy the latest chips and cookies.
Also, thousands of German holidaymakers affected by the insurgency. Numerous tour operators organized special transports. On Saturday machines arrived with tourists from tourist resorts such as Monastir and Djerba at German airports. The tourism company Thomas Cook flew to own, all have now from his German clients.
Some 2,000 tourists who had stayed on an organized tour of the company in the country were "on the way home or have already arrived back at home," said Thomas Cook.
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