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| Tunisia: New protests, police on the street | |
| 2011-01-23 | |
[Ennahar] Thousands of Tunisians, including many coppers, were again demonstrating on Saturday, combining social demands and calls to rid the government of the new bosses of the old regime who have been maintained despite the promises of break.
In Tunis, thousands of Tunisians marched in processions throughout the center city, Avenue Habib Bourguiba, before the seat of government, or that of the General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT), the Central Association, noted journalists and photographers from AFP. Many plainclothes or uniformed coppers marching in the center of the capital, saying "they are Tunisians as the others." The processions were often a social ride, employees of City Hall here demanding improved working conditions, workers in household enterprises demanding wage increases. On the second day of "national mourning" in memory of victims of the revolution of jasmine-one hundred deaths in one month according to the UN, most victims killed with the bullets of the police, police claim the creation of a union to defend their rights. "We're tired of receiving orders and for once we want to scream our anger," stormed a police officer outside the headquarters of the UGTT, the powerful trade union which has played a crucial role in the downfall of Ben Ali on 14 January, channeling and politicizing a revolt. Police officers who were demonstrating outside the headquarters of the government blocked an access point to the car of Tunisian President of transitional Fouad Mebazaa, before being gently removed by colleagues in operation. | |
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