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"It's a People's Uprising"

Like that Sihem Bensedrine, spokesperson for the banned National Council fot Freedom in Tunisia(CNLT), described the current developments in Tunisia in her today's interview with the German newspaper die tageszeitung. 

 
Fear has changed sides in Tunisia. For years the Tunisian population, its youth, its workers, its mothers were paralysed by fear of repression. Political lethargy was the rule, revolt the odd exception. Now things have turned upside down. Defiance of the brutal regime, its state, its spies, its media, its ruling party, its police and its army has become the rule during the four weeks of the uprising which has shaken Tunisia. Today's main slogan on the streets of the north African coutry:

"We do not fear you any more!"

The movement has not been subdued by persecution, imprisonment, torture and killings. Nevertheless the regime continues to kill, maim and torture the best of its youth. Last weekend alone, the orgy of repression reached a new climax as 20 protesters were killed by the forces of repression. Yesterday the police fired live ammunition into the crowds in Tala, Kasserine and many other cities in Tunisia, incl. its capital Tunis, killing at least 11 more people (according to Tunisian human right activists at least 50 protesters and activists were killed since the beginning of the uprising).

Al-Masry Al-Youm (independent Egyptian media organization): "In Tunisia, young people, the poor, thousands of workers and many other members of the civil society are leading an uprising that will go down in history as an important struggle for improved social, economic and political conditions."