It’s Official: Tunisia Has Returned to the Streets
A teenager was killed during demonstrations in Tunisia this weekend, and a video of 14 year old boy being raped by police is circulating on Facebook.
As the country tries to move towards democracy, whoever decided it was a good idea to crack down on the refresh of protests in Tunisia was clearly not thinking straight. This new violence has unsurprisingly created a backlash effect, and people are back on the streets in Tunis and Sidi Bouzid, now protesting in the name of a new martyr. Here's Al Jazeera's report:
Is there any connection between the resurgence of protest in Tunisia and the recent return of clashes and a sit-in in Egypt? Not a direct one, but a feedback loop does to some extent exist - as Zeinobia writes:
It is no longer some rivalry thing between us and Tunisia in the quest of democracy because we speaking real revolution and forces that will fight till the end. You must know that if Egypt wins in the end , Tunisia will win along other countries seeking liberation in the region, if Tunisia wins then we will win. This is why we should not stop in our quest.
Each country might minimize the effect one has one the other in terms of unrest, but there's an agreement that one's democratic success will bode well for that of the other. The difference this month - and this has consequences for the transitions on the whole - is that in Egypt the military has refrained from cracking down on protests, while in Tunisia that's not been the case.
