Monday, January 17, 2011

Unrest in Tunisia: Masked firing at police

According to the opposition party PDP took down a police convoy with armed men, some of the occupants fled and gave chase with the rescue team. Masked had been fired from a nearby building at the police, as they had just searched a taxi, said a party representative. The police arrested the head of the bodyguard of the deposed President Ben Ali and several of his employees.

You are accused of a conspiracy against national security, reported the official news agency Tap. Altogether there are 50 districts, according to police from suspects in custody. They should have made ambulances and car shot out to people. Also, former security chief of the ousted President, General Ali Sériati was arrested, according to the news agency.


He had to flee to the south of the country while trying to neighboring Libya, police officers and soldiers have been taken, the agency reported, citing an official circles. Sériati was then brought to Tunis and there have been remanded in custody. Witnesses reportedly a nephew of the deposed president was arrested.

Kais Ben Ali had been taken with ten other people from the army in central Tunisia Msaken. Security forces were alerted because the suspects were in police cars raced through the area and fired wildly have to trigger panic. German-French photographer, died on Sunday Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi wanted to continue the talks with the opposition on a government of national unity.

Ghannouchi is considered moderate and a good mediator, he charged, according to many Tunisian, but his current proximity to the old government. He had defended the crackdown during the protests of the State against the demonstrators. As interim president Foued Mebazaâ was used, also a former follower of Ben Ali.

Mebazaâ now promises democratic change, in a "government of national unity" are also oppositional forces are involved. Mebazaâ will, however, as many of the former inner circle said to be authoritarian and corrupt - but he is not quite as unpopular as other politicians of the country. A German-French photographer, has succumbed to his injuries in Tunis.

Lucas Mebrouk Dolega was only 32 years old. In his photographs he captured scenes of a desperate country. As late as Friday, he was with his camera - then a tear gas canister hit him in the head. He was taken to a hospital in the capital Tunis. In the very first night described his German mother's health of her son as very serious.

This Sunday he died of his injuries. Mebrouk Dolega was for the European Pressphoto Agency on the road, which also supplies the German news agency. Editor in chief Wolfgang Buchner said from the family his condolences: "We are Lucas Dolega eternally grateful for his courageous work in a dangerous situation he has done his work he has contributed to the world has learned about the precarious conditions in Tunisia...

" His death was shocking and heartbreaking. Interim president promises democratic change is unclear whether the transitional government, as promised, really makes a democratic transfer of power and elections are allowed or whether only will the next authoritarian rulers. The Rise of the Tunisians, however, is already a role model for millions of Arabs who have been suffering for decades under their corrupt rulers.

Opposition forces in many countries responded during the weekend according to optimistic. "The Tunisian people have paid the price for freedom and overthrow the tyrants," says the Egyptian left-Karama party. Also, the al-Quds Center for Political Studies in Jordan believe that other Arabs should learn from the Tunisian revolution.

"This will echo this unprecedented event in the Arab world, no doubt, in more than one country to hear the region," the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar. " In Yemen, on Sunday called about a thousand students to overthrow the government. Human rights activists joined the crowd that protested in the capital Sanaa.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Salih has stood for 32 years at the helm of the country. "Free Tunis, Sanaa greets you a thousand times," shouted the students. They also called on other Arab peoples' revolution against their lying leader and frightened "on. "Go, before you are stopped, stood on a poster.

Protests in other countries as early as Friday night joined by dozens of Egyptians in Cairo to a group of Tunisians, the front of the embassy of the country celebrated the end of the 23-year reign of Ben Ali. "Listen to the Tunisians, Egyptians now their turn are," cried the crowd. Last week, U.S.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Arab rulers: "The people have the corruption in the authorities and in the rigid political systems they require." Who would not bring about change, "sink into the sand," she told diplomats and business people in Qatar. Most Arab rulers were quick - after the initial shock is over - to take a stand.

Some of them expressed their solidarity with the revolutionaries - possibly to prevent skipping of the revolutionary spark to their own people. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said it respected the will of the Tunisian people. The pro-government Syrian daily al-Watan wrote: "The lesson of Tunisia can ignore no Arab regime." The only people who were raised without any ifs and buts on the side of the deposed President Ben Ali, the Saudis who have taken Ben Ali and his family with him - and the Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi.

Although Gaddafi is itself for more than 40 years in power, he still bears the title "Supreme Leader". Other revolutionaries, he suffers, however reluctantly by his side. "Tunisia has now turned into a country that is ruled by gangs," he grumbles. "I am touched by the pain of what happens in Tunisia," he said on Saturday evening in the Libyan television.

The anger of the citizens in the neighboring country makes him seem nervous.
Posted by Manlio Gandolfi at 12:31 AM

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