continues to worsen the balance of clashes between demonstrators and security forces for days that follow each other in Tunisia. The Interior Ministry acknowledged four more deaths, dating back to Monday ', so that they' brought to 18 the official statement.
But the situation would be even more 'serious: according to the main national union UGTT, in the last three days have killed over 50 people only in the central region of the Kasserine ; a similar amount had been already 'mentioned by the International Federation for Human Rights, an organization based in Lyon which includes 164 humanitarian movements, and which is' chaired by Tunisian Belhassen Souhayr. Amnesty International
dozens of deaths of dozens of deaths Amnesty International also spoke. In
day Tunis the atmosphere seemed relatively quiet, however, due to the indefinite closure of schools and universities ordered by President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali . The speech of the head of state who has denounced the "terrorist acts" in protests sparked further tension in various cities', including el-Kef and Gafsa, where police used tear gas to disperse the angry mob. In the capital, the streets are mostly 'empty, as few people went to work. There seems to be skepticism about the promise of Ben Ali to create 30 thousand jobs by 2012 to combat unemployment, a major determinant in triggering the riots.
riots primed by rising prices of bread and
Ghosts' was triggered by rising prices of bread, that ignited the exasperation of the Tunisian population, and also that of neighboring Algeria. The origin of the protests was the starting point in December, after the suicide of a 26 year old graduate with no employment, who set himself on fire to rebel against the confiscation by police of agricultural products which was trying to sell, without the necessary license, to obtain a living.
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