Note: just after posting this, the Tunisian army has taken control of the city of Tunis. It is not clear at this time, whether or not this is a military coup. That said, strange as it might seem, there is the sense that at the least, the army is there not only to restore order, but to protect the populace, much of which is protesting, from the security police. More tomorrow morning when, perhaps, some of the fog over the situation will clear.
rjp – 1/11/11 at 10:15 pm mountain time.
Yezzi Fock!
This has become the theme of the nationwide protests in Tunisia which continue unabated. “Enough” refers to the high levels of unemployment in the country, the pervasive corruption, especially of the two ruling families and the decades of seething repression which has kept Zine Ben Ali in power now for 23 years.
And with that, protestors in different parts of the country are tearing down President Zine Ben Ali’s portrait, a harbinger of things to come perhaps.
Triggered originally on December 17, 2010 by the suicide of a 26 year old university graduate who had had his unauthorized fruit and vegetable stand confiscated in Sidi Bouzid – and who soaked himself with gasoline and lit a match – the protests have only intensified, despite government attempts to suppress them continue.
Latest Developments
If anything, the situation is deteriorating as the opposition is only intensifying in the face of growing, if not massive repression. As “Kerym”, my unknown but insightful Tunisian correspondent (see comments in “Tunisian Intifada” below), comments: The demonstrations will continue because:
“The people know very well that he’s (Ben Ali) trying to cool things down, and once the situation returns to normal, he will betray them again….just like he did before . In other words , this people happen to distrust this weird man and his mobster gangs . Therefore quitting the protests now, means more repression and more arrests to be expected, and unemployment will remain an unsolved issue in tunisian society .
So far, the situation is snafu, but not without hope . “
Among the confirmed reports:
- Joining Tunisia’s lawyers, the countries artists have taken to the streets and joined the calls for an end to repression, corruption along with calls for the government to deal with the unemployment crisis. A number of the country’s leading cultural figures – artists, rappers, and leading intellectuals have been arrested.
- The trade union confederation in Sfax, Tunisia’s second largest city after Tunis, have joined the protests, called for a strike in the city
- The Tunisian government has closed all the high schools and universities in the country “until further notice” in an attempt cool what started as a “youth rebellion”, but which has long extended to broad sectors of the population
- That at least some of the weapons being used against demonstrators are “made in the USA”, including tear gas
Unconfirmed but worrisome
- That in Kasserine where a number of people were killed by security forces over the weekend, the government employed snipers on building tops who shot into the demonstrations, killing people at random. There are reports that the snipers are not from the Tunisian military who are actually trying to protect the demonstrators but from a special unit of Ben Ali’s security police called the Brigaude de l”Ordre Publique (BOP). Formed in the 1980s, the B.O.P. is based upon a French model
- That demonstrations have now erupted in the interior agricultural center of Beja, in Djendouba and the northern coastal city of Bizerte. According to one source, in Beja, the police station, the local offices of the ruling party (Rassemblement Constitutionnel Democratique) and a bank in which the Ben Ali/Trabelsi families are part owners were burnt to the ground today.
- That some members of the Ben Ali/Trabelsi familes are leaving the country, in one case for Canada
- That Tunisians living outside the country, all over the world, including in the United States are mobilizing, overwhelming in opposition to the current government.
Economic Considerations
Although the protests in Tunisia began in opposition to the country’s economic policy, they have more and more become political in nature, with growing calls for Zine Ben Ali, the country’s dictator-president, to step down. To date, Ben Ali refuses, hoping to crush the opposition with the country’s 180,000 strong security police. He combines fierce repression with promises of economic reform and a government jobs program.
Tunisians have heard these promises before. Three years ago, when a six month long protest over unemployment and social decay in the country’s mining district around Gafsa erupted, Ben Ali pursued a similar approach – repression and the promise of jobs, except virtually no economic development followed.
The country’s official unemployment rate stands at 14%. However youth unemployment for people between the ages of 15-24 is at least double that, and in some parts of the interior, as high as 50%. Furthermore the main areas of job creation – the tourism industry, textile manufacturing targeting the European market in “free trade zones” and what is left of Tunisia’s agricultural sector – are producing low wage jobs. And as in response to IMF/World Bank pressures, government subsidies continue to be reduced or eliminated from food and gasoline; even those with jobs find themselves having difficulty making ends meet.
None of the current economic problems weighing on Tunisia are new. Low wage jobs and growing unemployment for the country’s university graduates, high unemployment has been plaguing the country for some time as has Ben Ali’s long standing policies of repressing dissent of any kind, in the name of course, of countering Islamic radicalism; this despite the fact that Islamic radicalism, while it exists, has less of a base in Tunisia than virtually any other Arab state.
Tunisia: Stuck in the Semi-Periphery of the Global Economy
The economic rut in which Tunisia finds itself is a result what has long been its strategic role in the global economy as primarily a peripheral or semi-peripheral country whose mission has been to provide cheap manufactured products – and now cheap vacations – to core countries, especially in Europe. Can the Tunisian economy evolve, break the role that it has played in the global economy since its reality was reshaped by French colonialism to meet the needs of Europeans for cheap Thibar wine? I think it can. It has the human capital to do so.
Can the Tunisian economy evolve, break the role that it has played in the global economy since its reality was reshaped by French colonialism to meet the needs of Europeans for cheap Thibar wine?
Other countries – among them China, S. Korea, even the Nordic countries if we spread the historical time line a little, have reconstructed themselves. Perhaps out of the ashes and pain of the current moment, fresh ideas, directions for the country’s future will emerge and the suffering the country is now enduring will not be in vein. Indeed, if Tunisians at present are appalled and saddened by the repression, people would be missing the point not to realize that this is also a moment of great hope, of transition, of the possibility of the success of reform.
Tunisia: Gets Half of the Korean Model: Authoritarianism With Developmental Stagnation
This combination – authoritarian political system that “supposedly” delivers economic growth is often referred to as “the Korean Model” based on the dramatic development of the South Korean economy since the 1950s from an economic backward to one of the most dynamic economies of modern times – albeit not a miracle either, but still very impressive.
At the heart of the Korean model is the need to keep wages low and labor union activity in check through a repressive government in order that the accumulation of capital thus resulted can be re-invested into moderning the economy. The logic continues that once the economy is modernized, authoritarianism can be eased and democratic processes encouraged. I would argue that it “sort of” happened in South Korea.
But the Tunisian economic comparison with South Korea fails on a number of key counts
- In Korea, there was something of a transition to democracy after 3 decades of repressive rule
- The South Korean economy was a highly protectionist economy that did not open itself up to foreign capital until very late in the game and even then, not that much. Its industries were protected as was its currency. Foreign investment had to follow strict criteria. Perhaps most importantly, the role of the state in the S. Korean economy, as in Japan, has always been central to the country’s economic development
- South Korea benefitted from its status as a front-line state in the Cold War. As with the competition between East and West Germany, there was always a political dimension to the economic competition between North and South Korea, with the former being something of a basket case, the latter one of the “Asian Tigers”. The point here is that South Korea could break the IMF-World Bank structural adjustment rules and get away with it in a way that Tunisia couldn’t and didn’t. And a large measure of its economic success comes from the fact that S. Korea did not have to follow the rules that were imposed upon Argentina, Mexico or Russia.
- Tunisia on the other hand began opening up its economy, privatizing elements of it, opening the country to foreign investment with fewer and fewer strings already in the early 1980s and has, as a result I would argue, paid the price. The economic sectors which were modernized – textiles, mining did not produce enough domestic capital to invest in new technologies and take the country in new directions, despite its highly educated work force. Foreign investment, let loose with fewer and fewer regulations, as in Thailand, concentrated in real estate, the financial sector and tourism, none of which help development that much.
- So Tunisia has gotten “the authoritarian” aspect of the S. Korean model without producing the development revolution.
If one looks closely at Tunisian society on the eve of independence in 1956, it is rather striking – there was most definitely what is referred to today as a highly developed “civil society” with participation of most sectors of society in the political movement that led to independence. But that civil society was first seriously weakened by the country’s first president, Habib Bourguiba who saw it as a threat to his personal power. Then it was smothered by Ben Ali — or more accurately, Ben Ali tried to snuff it out. And yet despite everything, under the surface it has continued – until it erupted once again full force after the death of Mohammed Bouazizi.
Why the uprising (for that is what it appears to be) now?
So why is it now that the country as a whole has been pushed over the edge if these trends have been in play for so long?
In the end one never knows why it is that objective social conditions erupt into revolt. More often than not they do not. But still, there are a number of factors which might explain the current unprecedented protests.
- Income distribution has sharply polarized in the past few years. As Basel Saleh points out, the top 10% of Tunisia’s economic ladder control 32% of the national income. The top 20% control nearly half. Tunisia’s income inequality is so severe that the bottom 60% of the population control only 30% of the country’s wealth, again with 40% of the population taking home 70% of the national income. At the same time, two families at the top, the Ben Ali’s and Trabelsi’s have come to dominate the country’s economy. One WikiLeaks cable from the U.S. embassy in Tunis suggests that the two families have their hands in and on 50% of the country’s economy. As the disparity between wealth and poverty increases, the corruption of the two ruling families has come more into focus.
- There are regional disparities too, well known in the economic literature, with the northern and coastal cities benefitting much more from Ben Ali’s economic policies than the interior and the south which have long suffered. It should not be surprising to anyone who has followed Tunisian events over the past 30 years that social unrest, protest and rebellion tend to originate in the interior and the south
- 2009 was not a good year and Tunisia’s economy suffered despite World Bank/IMF claims that the country has weathered the global financial crises better than many places. Tourism was down as were textile exports to Europe only aggravating the already existing socio-economic crisis
- But the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back in this case is the growing distrust and distaste among the broader population for president Ben Ali’s wife, Leila Trabelsi and her siblings who have been scrambling to dominate whatever sectors of Tunisia’s economy they could, dominating the IMF pressured privatizations which have marked the country’s economic transition. It appears rather likely that Ben Ali was positioning his wife to “take over” the country in four years when he supposedly would retire. The thought that Zine Ben Ali would turn over power to Leila Trabelsi – and that the corruption at the top would thus be blessed and institutionalized that much more only added to the seething anger about to explode.
However else the situation in Tunisia plays out, the likelihood that the Trabelsi family will replace Ben Ali has all but gone up in smoke. Mohammed Bouazizi, the young unemployed man whose suicide by fire started this protest movement, has inadvertently taken one of Tunisia’s richest families, the Trabelsi’s along with him. The first result of the Tunisian intifada is to de-legitimize that clan so that politically speaking they are dead. It was not just Mohammed Bouazizi that went up in a ball of flames but the Trabelsi family’s political future in Tunisia. Let us see what other lessons unfold
Ben Ali, You are over, enough is enough
you and your family the band of thieves, just leave
we need to come back to our country and live in peace and freedom.
Merci Thank’s very imp- Report
many award winner have monopoly positions ,
in TUN- many policeman , or Trabelsi have the hole position
Thanks for your comment, in fact you have right, but don’t made any misunderstanding between the Army and the Police and also the terms of Intifada it’s really not appropriate for the Tunisian context.
But today it’s important to arrest this criminal Ben Ali and all the gangster’s around him.
It’s also time to make an important announcement to all the High Administration, to all the Ministries, to all the key people how are in charge the Republic of Tunisia to stop, to arrest Ben Ali and this family now and to restore the civil peace in Tunisia.
It’s time for now to protect the people and the Tunisian interest for the future.
We will write, we will study all tha analyses after but for the moment : STOP THE KILLING ! and restore the democratie and the freedom.
limogeage du chef d’état-major de l’armée de terre, Rachid Ammar. Le général aurait refusé de donner l’ordre aux soldats de réprimer les émeutes qui se sont propagées dans le pays et exprimé des réserves sur un usage excessif de la force…Aujourd’hui dans le Figaro
There must be a way out for the country, to overcome a worst-case-scenario, without having to push it to the limit of a semi-civil war, god forgive . This will automatically lead to a total chaos, it’s a déjà-vu whereby gang groups will feast on looting, and whereby no one would be safe, and who knows what effect would it have on tunisia’s economy on the mid-term as well as on the long run .
The naked truth is that our national economy is still very dependable on the European Union where toerism contributes enormously to the national main income . Without it, and the economy will cripple.
A smarter government, would have find other ways to generate other income, from different sources other than from toerism, if it really wanted to shake itself off from the idea that toerism must remain an important part of the main national income, with such a high risc factor that toerism might just not deliver, in times when it’s needed . Especially after securing economic cooperation with the E.U. on other levels .
Our economy might be blamed for depending solely on mass toerism, and for being too reluctant to invest in creating durable jobs on a regular basis for those tens of thousands of unemployed graduates, obviously, and for everybody else at the same time and if not, they all should be entitled to a minimum social security, paid out to them by the government until they find work . A similar system should’ve been put in place, instead of tunneling billions upon billions to private accounts in western banks . All the tranferred money, by the president and his environment, could well have done the job, and made this country get what it deserved concerning economic welfare . Such a system must take into account the inflation rate over the last ten years, and the average rate should be fairly added to a decent monthly check that can provide for basic needs, at least . It is not a favor, it is the obligation for any self respected government to provide for its citizens : Either work or a monthly social security check, for the unemployed and the have nots . With this system in place, secured with a complete transparency in the finance system , things will obviously not look the same anymore and that can be a first firm step to real democratization which will automatically provide wellfare to all citizens, and to become a Basic Right .
From that point on, the future of the country will most certainly look much better, but there is still a whole of a lot to be done hence it has already been taken care of, as far as the civil society is concerned and many patriotic figures are working hard on a “roadmap” with a lot of footnotes .
For the time being, the country is eagerly waiting for the moment to say good riddance to Ben Ali and his bunch of haggards . The sooner the better .
Ben Ali ET son premier ministre annoncent, annoncent et annoncent.
TROP TARDS…. VOUS DEVEZ PARTIR ET ÉVITER AU PAYS D´AUTRES DÉGATS
to robert prince:
a thanks for a start,for the generosity and the time that you deducated to this issue,we have made you already an honorary tunisian last time round.
the karma of you being tunisian last life drove you this one to
seek it and reaffirm your sense of care to it even when born somewhere else like usa.
that may be another belief system but what we call now is that
you’ve caught that tunisian bug and made it as a mean to earn
a crust or satisfy an intellectual drive or need.
the flavour being used in your ouput got the essense from what’s
been airing here or similar outlets.
you have caught the essense and done a grand job and for that
lots of gratitudes from us.
a short term pain is expected in all renewal but an optimism
and hope if we play our cards right by putting the right system
in place.
there also a glimmer that will unleash a tunisian creativity,an
entrepreneurial spirit that carthage once had and being stymed for centries awaiting to burst into spring.
we will open the market properly not to just few but to all,not half
heartidly either and use our advantage of geographie.
a place that is a central position and an enviable one.
as for a system the korean model doesn’t work we are not disciplined mob,we are nationalistic enough,the japanese could be one as they had
a calculated national goals like sending a key number of student to the west 2 centries ago to absorb the management technique.we do that already by default or escaping prevailing misery.
the usa system is alright but with compassion and safe guard,which
is a contradiction in a way as what’s behind that system is the
drive of unsecurity that makes yank compete harder and be more
resourceful like the wild in nature. do or die.
for now is to put the wagan on the right rail and another day we
will check where we are heading.
wipe the slate clean from zibla,we had enough,work just begun.
when there is life there is hope,thanks robert,thanks tunisian youths,old and wise minds,caring ones let’s celabrate the
unschackling first.
شعارات المرحلة
هي كلمة موش اثنين
ام احنا ام الزين
ثور يا شعب ولا تهتم
هذا الزين واحد مجم
الشعب يعيط وين فلوسي
عند الزين و الطرابلسي
الشعب التونسي قال كلامه
لن تحكم فيه واحدة حجامة
CHAABOU TOUNISA THAWRATOU BOURKANE
AL JAZAIER NAROUN FI KOULLI MAKAN
LOUBNANOU MAZZAKOUHOU MOUNDHOU ZAMAN
FILISTINOU YA JOURHAN DAIMAN FIL ADHHANE
MISROU , YA MISROU AYNA ANTI ALANE
YA OUMMATA AL OURBI , LAKAD TALA SOUBATOUKI WA ANTI FI NAFSI EL MAKANE
YA OUMMATA AL OURBI , ESTAIKIDHI FAKAD ANA AL AWANE
YA OUMMATA AL OURBI LAKAD KOUNTI KHAYRA OUMMATIN BAYNA AL AWTAN
AFIKI YA OUMMATI FAKAD ANA ALWANE
AFIKI YA OUMMATI FAKAD ANA AL AWANE.
When I see all these reports from Tunis, I can only be pleased by our Tunisian youth. After all these years of repression and media manipulation, the Tunisian youth are teaching everyone of us that freedom and dignity come first.
I can only weep and pray for all the martyrs. No time to back up I am asking all Tunisians to be careful from another game that Ben Ali will make these days to absorb the revolution.
Opposition leaders and expatriates should return now to their country and be part to establish a new government representing the whole country.
A word to the French government: shame on you it’s a shame to one of the oldest democrcy in europe and the world to support this rigime.
Revolution until victory and let’s pray for a minimum of bloodshed.
Tunisian citizen
5 morts à DOUZ….Il faudra combien de mort encore pour que les gens biens décident d’arrêter les barbares ? Ou attendez vous à ce que le peuple soit assassiné?
Faites passer l’appel sur Facebook – il faut faire un appel national- il faut arrêter la tuerie – Nous devons préserver nos acquis et la confiance des investisseurs internationaux – Faites des manifestations pacifiques – “Les gens ne sont pas dupes ils savent que c’est des éléments de la police qui détruisent un certain nombre de bâtiment et de banque pour les pillier.”
Mesdames, Messieurs, Monsieur le chef d’état-major de l’armée de terre, Général Rachid Ammar,
C’est un appel solennel à tous les hauts fonctionnaires, de l’armée, des Ministères, des services secrets, à tout ceux qui ont la responsabilité de garantir l’avenir de la Tunisie…
Le peuple n’est pas contre vous, vous êtes aussi le peuple, vos enfants sont aussi l’avenir de notre pays. Vous avez le devoir, l’obligation aujourd’hui morale et devant Dieu et le peuple, tout le peuple Tunisien de faire cesser la dérive fascisante du régime Ben Ali et de sa famille. Si vous laissez avancer cette dérive, si vous laissez la police continuer à tuer votre peuple, notre sang, vous serez aussi condamner pour complicité de crime contre chaque Tunisien et tunisienne qui tombera sous les balles.
Il est de votre devoir de préserver les acquis de la République, il est de votre devoir de garantir et de préserver les interets de la Tunisie nationaux et internationaux. Il y a va aujourd’hui de la survie économique des tunisiens. Comme vient de l’écrire Centrist, toute la famille a quitté le navire, de quoi avez vous peur…
Etes vous des laches à ce point…Le peuple de Tunisie n’a plus peur lui…
Monsieur le Général Ammar vous avez été limogé par des laches, par des voyous, Monsieur, j’en appel à votre courage, à votre clairvoyance, à votre dignité et celui du peuple tunisien, vous êtes l’un des seuls qui aujourd’hui pouvez changer la donne et faire arrêter ce bain de sang.
Ce sont vos enfants, nos enfants c’est la Tunisie qui meurs.
La Tunisie a suffisamment de Haut fonctionnaires, des hommes et des femmes non corrompus qui peuvent assurer et diriger le pays sur une période transitoire en préparant des élections démocratiques.
La Tunisie a toujours été un pays d’avenir et visionnaire et n sommes nous pas tous fils et filles, pères et mère du feu Président BOURGUIBA qui a bâtit ce beau pays, qui a donné cette force de ca que nous sommes aujourd’hui . FIER d’ ETRE TUNISIEN
Dés la prise en fonction des nouveaux dirigeants, la première des choses à faire au delà bien sur de faire arrêter les violences et la tuerie de la police sera aussi de
NATIONALISER TOUTES LES ENTREPRISES QUI ONT ÉTÉ VOLÉ PAR LES FAMILLES BEN ALI.
Ce sera le signal le plus fort, le plus politique, qui assurera à toute la population que cette famille de voleur et de mafieux sera définitivement mis hors de nuire aux intérêts de la REPUBLIQUE TUNISIENNE.
Mesdames, Messieurs, APPEL SOLENNEL NE LAISSE PAS TOMBER VOTRE PAYS ET VOTRE PEUPLE.
Les interets de notre pays sont plus important aujourd’hui pour le peuple, pour son avenir, ils n’ont rien compris, ils ne peuvent pas, il ne peuvent plus comprendre tous ces dirigeants du Président au Premier Ministre ils sont aujourd’hui tous complice de ce massacre et ce ses assassinats ne SOYER LE COMPLICE DU SILENCE.
” LE MAL GAGNE TOUJOURS PAR L’INNACTION DES GENS BIENS ”
AUJOURD’HUI LA TUNISIE À BESOIN DE VOUS TOUTES ET DE VOUS TOUS
Hauts fonctionnaires – Dirigeants ou êtes vous ?
Merci pour nos nos enfants et leurs avenir
Voici l’adresse de Sakr El Materi avec sa femme ils viennent d’arriver à Québec :
Adresse : 70 Place Belvedere – West Mount – Quebec – Canada
Tous les Tunisiens vivant au Quebec sont invités à aller demander à ce voleur et assassin ( car il et elle sont complices du carnage et des vols organises de la Tunisie ) de rembourser l’argent et les sociétés qu’il a volé aux peuples.
Il faut aller devant sa maison( je voulais dire chateaux), avec des slogans et drapeaux pour un sitting de 24h. Juste lui souhaiterla bienvenue. Plz donnez lui une lecon de democratie et de liberte d’expression devant son domicile ( domicile du peuple Tunisien finalement).
Ses employes a la maison Dar Assabah font la greve a leur siege a Tunis. Ils les a abondonnes, il a pris tout le fric et eux ne savent plus comment ils vont etre payes la fin du mois.
khobz ou ma, benali la !
http://www.liberation.fr/monde/01012313233-tunisie-rien-ne-peut-arreter-ce-soulevement
Tunisien et patriote,
Je suis Tunisien, j’aime la Tunisie, j’aime les Tunisiens.
En observant, malheureusement, de loin le déroulement des évènements actuels en Tunisie. J’appelle au nom de ma personne et au nom de tous ceux qui veulent me rejoindre,
L’opposition Tunisienne à,
S’impliquer d’avantage dans l’encadrement des efforts populaires pour renverser le régime actuel.
Elaborer et communiquer au peuple un projet clair, détaillé, pragmatique et réalisable pour un réel changement dans notre pays à fin que les sacrifices du peuple Tunisien représentent le prix de son salut.
Le peuple Tunisien à,
Continuer la lutte contre ce régime criminel, mafieux et corrompu par tous les moyens jusqu’à sa déchéance
Constituer des cellules de résistance dans les villages, les cartiers des villes pour une meilleure gestion de la lutte et la canalisation des efforts afin de soutenir efficacement le projet de l’opposition.
Les forces armées Tunisiennes à,
Rejoindre leurs frères et sœurs dans cette révolte sacrée pour la liberté, car vous êtes aussi Tunisiens et que vous subissez de la même façon la cruauté de ce régime.
Appuyer l’opposition, car elle est aujourd’hui l’unique légitime représentant de votre peuple et de votre partie, celle que vous avez jurez de la protéger avec vos vies.
Et en fin à tous les traîtres, les mafieux, les criminels et leurs chiens de garde
La Tunisie Farhat Hached, la Tunisie Abou El Kassim Echebi a vaincu vos semblables et aujourd’hui la Tunisie des 10 millions d’honnêtes citoyens vous vaincra, ayez ne ce resèque pas un peu de dignité et partez, notre peuple ne veut plus de vous, et ayez crainte car notre prochain dispositif judiciaire aura une attitude différente à votre égard.
Bonjour à vous tous,
je vous avoue qu’entre le temps de travail et nawaat, la naissance d’une DEMOCRATIE n’a pas de prix.
Nous vivons dans la douleur et la perte de nos enfants, de nos mères et père pour la naissance prochaine de la 1er DÉMOCRATIE ARABES. Nous sommes tous des Tunisiens du Maroc à l’Irak, d’Algérie à la Jordanie, en Arabie Séoudite à la Palestine, dans le monde entier, LE TUNISIEN est aujourd’hui le symbole d’une révolution la plus spectaculaire que l’histoire du monde arabe écrit en direct.
Mohamed Bouazizi c’est en ton nom, et aux noms de tous les tunisiens morts en martyrs sous les balles du dictateur Ben Ali et de sa famille et de la police qu’il dirige depuis 40 ans,
AUJOURD’HUI TOUS LES PAYS DE LA MEDITERRANNÉE du SUD SONT TUNISIENS
Oublions la France, oublions l’Europe, pensons à NOUS à notre avenir, ne vous inquiétez pas, tous ces pays ont autant besoin de nous que nous avons besoin d’eux. Nos destins sont étroitement liés.
Il ne faut pas lacher prise, Les Diplomates Tunisiens en poste partout dans le monde soutiennent encore et toujours les interets de la famille Ben Ali, des Trabelsi, des Materi, de Chibou, des Mabrouk et des autres…Tous les Ambassadeurs tunisiens sont des complices des meurtres du dictateur Ben Ali. Ils continuent à tenir des listes, à prendre des photos des manifestants. Les Ambassadeurs Tunisiens font le forcing dans les médias européens pour dire et convaincre faussement que le peuple est une bande de voyou qui pillent et saccagent le Tunisie. Les Ambassadeurs Tunisiens sont des vendus à la solde des familles qui les ont acheté avec le sang du peuple tunisien. Tous nos ambassadeurs sont aussi des laches, des mauviettes, des mafieux qui sont fait offrir des millions € pour avoir l’immunité à vie de la famille. Ils savent ce qu’ils vont perdre, ils ont peur, la peur à changer de camps…NE lachez pas prise.
Inondez les ambassades, les consulats Tunisiens dans le monde entier avec des emails, il faut qu’ils sachent qu’ils continuent à soutenir une mafia, qu’ils seront renvoyés, mis hors d’état de nuire, qu’il sont complices des crimes de sang tout autant que les forces de police de Ben Ali. Qu’ils ne sont pas dignes d’être les représentants du peuple tunisien. Il n’aime pas la Tunisie, ils aiment les millions d’€ qu’ils ont placé grace à la famille.
Honte à vous Monsieur l’Ambassadeur de Tunisie en France, vous n’êtes pas digne d’être l’héritier de celui qui vous a éduqué Feu le Président BOURGUIBA. BOURGUIBA lui était un homme d’Etat.
TUNVOT tu as raison, il va falloir très attention dans les heures et jours qui viennent à ne pas applaudir au premier venu…C’est pour cela que j’ai fais un appel au Chef des Armes de Terre qui a été limogé pour avoir dit non ” je ne tire pas sur mon peuple” de garantir à ce peuple qu’il aime, qui est le sang qui coule dans ses veines, une transition démocratique en aidant celui ou celle qui portera haut et fort les couleurs de la DÉMOCRATIE TUNISIENNE. Et si c’était une femme?