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2021-01-27 Africa North
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Tunisian police fire water cannons as protesters march on parliament
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[DailyStar] TUNIS: Tunisian riot police turned water cannon on protesters outside the heavily barricaded parliament on Tuesday, trying to quell the largest rally since demonstrations began this month over inequality and police abuses.
| As I recall, the last government in Tunisia fell over similar issues. Some things never change... |
Hundreds of protesters had marched from the Ettadhamen district of the capital Tunis, where young people have clashed with police several nights this month, and were joined by hundreds more near the parliament. Police blocked the march with barricades to prevent protesters approaching the parliament building where lawmakers were holding a tense debate on a disputed government reshuffle.
"The government that only uses police to protect itself from the people - it has no more legitimacy," said one protester, Salem Ben Saleh, who is unemployed.
| Did they use a twelve-foot high fence and National Guard troops? |
Later, police also barred Avenue Habib Bourguiba, the broad tree-lined boulevard that is home to the Interior Ministry and where major protests have traditionally taken place, as demonstrators tried to gather there.
Protests flared earlier this month on the 10th anniversary of Tunisia's 2011 revolution that inspired that Arab Spring and introduced democracy in the North African country.
| Ten years -- just about enough time for the new generation to decide that things are rotten enough to rebel. |
Political paralysis and economic decline have soured many Tunisians on the fruits of the uprising. The nightly clashes between young people and police have been matched by growing daytime protests at which demonstrators have chanted slogans including "the people want the fall of the regime" - echoing Arab Spring uprisings.
On Tuesday, with anger high over the death on Monday of a young man whose family said he had been hit by a tear gas canister, protesters chanted against the security forces. In Sbeitla, the hometown of Haykel Rachdi who was buried on Tuesday, mourners later clashed with police, witnesses said.
| In 2011 the issue was the police beating a young man who was a fruit vendor. |
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Posted by Steve White 2021-01-27 00:00||
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