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Tunisia: A revolution for dignity

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Tunisia: A revolution for dignity: Sidi Bouzid
As the lights of the International Press have switch out, I have traveled to all the destitute villages to meet some of the Revolution’s protagonists. Few moths after the bloody riots that was toppled the 23-year autocratic rule of dictator Zine Ben Ali by protesters who expelled him on January 14 with his wife Leila. Tunisians gave the example of the ‘square’ to the Arab World as also to Spain, Portugal, France, and Greece. For the first time after 23 years, the Tunisians can speak freely about politics without being threatened of censorship, torture and prison. On October 23, Tunisians will vote for the first time after decades. The magazine of Tunis Airlines has as a main title: “The revolution of jasmine”. But there is no Tunisian who accepts this tourist wording. “We sacrificed our children to the revolution. Dignity is what we ask. At work, in education, in society”, says Ms Sahla Sadeou who lost her son from a police-sniper at his friend’s funeral, who has been killed by riot forces in Kasserine, the city with 37 martyrs –the highest number – and the city where the percentage of unemployment is almost 70%. The report is from Sidi bou Sid, where the sparkle of the revolution fired when Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire, touching off a season of revolt across the Arab world. Erdeyef, the mine-city where the riots started in 2008 but Ben Ali’ forces have ‘drown’ it, Kassrine and Tela.
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