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| Algeria/ Riots: Who benefits from the fire of Fitna? |
| 2011-01-10 |
| [Ennahar] Poor Algerian families pay dearly for being out on the streets, driven by rumours on rising food prices. They are the big losers in this unhealthy game being subject to wholesale arrests, while food retailers are just spectators. The latter are the winners following the government's decision to lower taxes on food products. This unhealthy game, work of food products' lobbies that lasted only four days, made the happiness of these lobbies, although they were the cause of this Fitna. They have lobbied the government until they have been successful, reducing taxes on import transactions that have reached 41%, allowing them to make large profits. If the riots had a positive impact on their sponsors who put the government in a difficult situation, they have had adverse consequences for cons on Algerian families who pay the bill. The victims of these riots are nothing but ordinary citizens as well as those injured or jugged. The relative calm that has returned to the towns and villages in Algeria, after the wave of protest that lasted four days, gave way to sadness in many Algerian families punished by the authorities, and joy in the lobbies rewarded by the government for causing Fitna in holding down taxes. The riots left five people dead, 677 injured and over 1,000 arrests. |
| Posted by:Fred |