Mon Dec 27, 2010
In the wake of angry protests and clashes between Tunisian security forces and residents of the town of Sidi Bouzid, the violence spreads to the country's capital, Tunis.
The social unrest, triggered by the North African state's ailing economy and poor working conditions, intensified after Tunisian police opened fire on a teenager in Bouziane, 240km south of Tunis, on Friday.
The Tunisian government was seeking to address the issue through dialogue with the organizers of the protests at labor unions, but the protesters refused to enter negotiations, accusing the government of prolonging the talks, an IRIB correspondent reported on Monday.
The protesters say the unrest stemmed mainly from the government's failure to provide the Tunisian people with jobs and social welfare.
Tunisian Minister of Development and international cooperation Mohammad Nouri Jouini says the government is sparing no efforts in its attempts to rescue the economy, but the people's objections to their dire situation and poor working conditions are also right and understandable.
Clashes erupted in the town of Sidi Bouzid on December 17 after a man committed suicide in protest against unemployment. Five days later, on 22 December, another young man climbed up an electricity pylon and electrocuted himself, saying he was fed up with being unemployed.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/157363.html.
An Open Letter to Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan
9 years ago
This is some interesting stuff that should be watched and noted carefully. There's a possibility that such a thing could lead to the change of the current secular unjust government there and maybe even change the unjust oppressive constitution of that country.
ReplyDeleteIf such current events do lead to the change of the government and amendment or change of the country's constitution then it would helped the oppressed covered Muslim sisters there.