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| Hundreds Protest against Terrorism in Tunis |
| 2013-05-11 |
| [An Nahar] Hundreds of Tunisians, including police, human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... activists and political party representatives, protested on Friday against "terrorism" after the government said two wanted jihadist groups had ties with al-Qaeda. Several hundred protesters gathered outside the national assembly shouting "Tunisia is free, terrorism out!" and waving placards with slogans including: "We support the security forces and the army in the war against terrorism." A delegation of unionists representing the armed forces was received in parliament, where they demanded that a special compensation fund be set up for members maimed or killed in the line of duty, an Agence La Belle France Presse journalist reported. The army intensified its search last week for two groups of jihadists hiding in the remote Kef and Mount Chaambi regions along the Algerian border, who the authorities say have al-Qaeda links and are veterans of the Islamist rebellion in northern Mali. Landmines planted by the Islamists to protect their Mount Chaambi base have so far maimed 16 members of the security forces, some of whom have lost legs. |
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