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Kasserine & Thala: Towns with a revolutionary tradition.
On 22-24th December Kassrine and Thala’ people held their first solidarity march with Sidi Bouzid, where the first call in all of Tunisia was made demanding the fall of Ben Ali. Between 3rd and 12th January, Thala – a town of 15,000 inhabitants – was surrounded by 1,800 police. Supplies of water, bread were cut off. “YES to bread and water, NO to Ben Ali”. 150 people were imprisoned. Young men, women and children were tortured and abused. But through Facebook and other social networks, the young were able to publish videos of the repression and publicise the police murder of 6 young people. Thala, won. Today, there are no police in town. Young people take it in turns to deal with security. Only the military presence reminds that there is a state.

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882 Mahran Buazisi, 26 lawyer, imprisoned for two years and tortured in water with chorine. He still has pain in his eyes. "The Islamist were suffering most" he says. "They 've raped their wives and daughters in front of them". During January 2011 riots, three men and three women accused policemen for rape to the Revolution Committee. In Kassrine police of Minister of Interior still hits people” © Maro Kouri 883 Salha Sadeui in front of Martyrs memorial where her son's name is written on. 37 were totally the martyrs in Kassrine province, 300 kms from the capital. Her 28 years old Zalid Saadaow was attending to another martyr's funeral. "It was an opportunity to shoot at the people carrying the coffin" mother says. The policemen were hidden on the top of the builidings and in the minareτ of this small square shooting to the crowd © Maro Kouri 884 26-years old Yamina Gazmazi with the photograph of her 6-month daughter who died when a tear gas fall into their house. She is the youngest martyr of the Tunisian Revolution © Maro Kouri 885 In Kassrine police continues to arrest and hit demonstrarors. Om July 2011, Tunisia’s interim prime minister, Beji Caid Essebsi, has spoken about the country’s 700,000 unemployed people, more than 15 percent of the work force, including 170,000 university graduates. Mr. Essebsi has said that new government programs can provide positions for 60,000 people, but he also acknowledged that there was no quick fix, appealing instead to businessmen and investors to focus on Tunisia’s depressed inland areas (source NY Times) © Maro Kouri 886 Young men through Facebook and other net could spread around the world videos and photographs of the police murders during the revolution. Ben Ali left the country on 12, January 2011. “Youth need jobs with the new government and new laws" they say © Maro Kouri 887 Graffity in Kassrine © Maro Kouri 892 An empty store downtown of Kassrine © Maro Kouri 893 Garbage collectors outside Kassrine railway st © Maro Kouri 894 Kassrine railway st © Maro Kouri 895 Young, smiley woman runs in Thala hills © Maro Kouri 896 Life on Thala hills. © Maro Kouri 897 Old woman traditional dressed gathers chamomile. Thala city in the background © Maro Kouri 898 Young men in front of graffity, which referres to the revolution martyrs. © Maro Kouri 899 Woman traditional dressed with suitcase on a donkey © Maro Kouri 900 Funritures rent for wedding -ceremonies, and alcohol sold for drinking. In a store of Thala © Maro Kouri 901 Pushing the broken cars © Maro Kouri
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