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Tunisia
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 24, 2021, 2:28 pm
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Anti-government protests continue in Tunisia
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> Hundreds of people marched in the Tunisian capital to protest
what they call police brutality, corruption and poverty
following clashes and arrests over the past week.
> #TunisiaProtests
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Rallies against police brutality and repression turn violent in
Tunisia
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> A series of protests against police brutality and repression
is being held in Tunisia. Hundreds of people defied a ban on
gatherings to denounce corruption and call for a new government.
As Liz Maddock reports, their message is the same one
popularised when Tunisians sparked the Arab Spring 10 years ago.
#ArabSpring
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Re: Tunisia
DIR By: guest55
Date: July 29, 2021, 1:05 am
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Are Tunisians really ‘revolting against the Muslim Brotherhood’?
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> Are Tunisians really “revolting against the
#MuslimBrotherhood”?
>
> Propaganda tweets by mostly Saudi and UAE influencers as well
as bots are fuelling that exact narrative.
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Re: Tunisia
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 27, 2022, 4:59 am
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Good news:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is0Hwz81H50
Background:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Tunisia_relations
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> On October 22, 2000, President Ben Ali announced that he would
break all diplomatic ties with Israel following the "violence in
the Palestinian-controlled territories".[15] Israel expressed
its disappointment at the Tunisian decision to sever relations
and close the interest offices in Tel Aviv and Tunis. The
Israeli Foreign Ministry said: "It appears that Tunisia has
elected to renounce its potential role as a bridge for dialogue
between Israel and its neighbours, thereby harming the critical
effort to promote regional peace."[16]
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This is why the Arab Spring happened in the first place.
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Re: Tunisia
DIR By: guest98
Date: July 14, 2023, 3:48 pm
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/14/black-tunisians-lie-low-violence-against-black-people-worsens
Black Tunisians lie low as violence against Black people worsens
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> In February, Tunisian President Kais Saied warned his country
of a plan to change Tunisia’s “demographic make-up”, to turn it
into “just another African country that doesn’t belong to the
Arab and Islamic nations any more”.
>
> As part of this plan, “hordes of irregular migrants from
sub-Saharan Africa” had travelled to Tunisia, bringing “all the
violence, crime, and unacceptable practices that entails”.
>
> The dubious warning, which has been widely criticised and
dubbed racist by human rights groups as well as by regional and
international bodies, gave official approval to a mentality that
has been spreading through the North African country over recent
years.
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> It led to round-ups of Black sub-Saharan Africans, their
eviction from rented properties, and African countries
mobilising to repatriate their citizens.
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> And now, with reports of mobs forcing their way into the homes
of Black migrants and refugees, attacking occupants with fists,
clubs and machetes, Tunisia’s own native black population, long
used to the bigotry that exists in many parts of their own
society, are braced for the assault.
>
> Around 10 to 15 percent of Tunisia’s own population is Black,
according to the anti-racism campaign group, Mnemty. Some are
descended from the native Amazigh population of North Africa,
while the ancestors of others migrated here from nearby states,
and others were brought to Tunisia as part of the country’s
participation in the slave trade.
>
> According to Mnemty, conditions have deteriorated since
President Saied’s February broadside.
>
> “It’s got worse, much worse,” Zied Rouin from Mnemty said.
“Ever since the speech of Kais Saied, people have lost all sense
of shame over their racism. If you’re racist, you’re racist, but
people now feel it’s OK to announce that. There’s nothing
[Black] people can do, no one they can complain to. Black people
feel unprotected, while racists feel empowered. They feel they
can do whatever they like.”
>
> Criminalising racism
>
> Recent attacks upon the thousands of Black refugees and
migrants in the port city of Sfax, and across Tunisia, have been
as ferocious as they have been brutal.
>
> In 2018, Tunisia made history by criminalising racism. It was
a first, not just in North Africa, but across the Arab world.
Racism, its existence long dismissed by successive governments,
was at last acknowledged and its victims offered some kind of
legal protection to all Black people, irrespective of the
country of their birth, on Tunisian soil.
>
> However, with no central strategy to roll it out, and without
the funds to train the police in its use, its application
remained piecemeal.
>
> Now, with Black people, some bleeding, lying unprotected in
the blistering summer heat, the 2018 law has arguably ceased to
have any relevance, and some Tunisian nationalists are even
calling for it to be repealed.
>
> ‘Racism is always there’
>
> Huda Mzioudet left Tunisia for Toronto, Canada years ago,
returning during the summer months to carry out research on
ancestral Black identity in Tunisia.
>
> She says that the situation, which was already bad, has grown
worse.
>
> “It’s just always there, in everything you do,” she says of
her experience as a Black Tunisian travelling the country’s
south. “What’s more, the racism is more pronounced now.”
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