Saturday, December 17, 2011

Tunisians mark year since revolution's spark

Tunisians mark year since revolution's spark

Thousands of Tunisians rallied on Saturday to commemorate a immature fruitseller's unfortunate gesticulate a year ago that unleashed a pioneering series of a Arab Spring.

Newly-elected President Moncef Marzouki assimilated a crowds in a city of Sidi Bouzid, where Mohamed Bouazizi's rumpus with a policewoman and his successive self-immolation set off a call of protests that defeated long-standing dictators and dramatically altered a Arab world.

"Thank we to this land, that has been marginalised for centuries, for bringing grace to a whole Tunisian people," pronounced Marzouki, who was sworn in as boss this week after a country's initial post-revolution election.

"Our purpose is to move behind a fun of vital that had been stolen by despots," Marzouki said.

Bouazizi, an impoverished graduate, set himself on glow on Dec 17 final year after a quarrel with a policewoman, to criticism abuses underneath a 23-year regime of boss Zine el Abidine Ben Ali -- sparking a rebel that suspended a strongman reduction than a month later.

The fruitseller committed his unfortunate act in Sidi Bouzid, partial of a neglected Tunisian interior prolonged ignored for investment by a former regime in a north African country, that hold a initial giveaway elections in October.

From daylight Saturday, Tunisians swarmed into Sidi Bouzid, where a streets were embellished with Tunisian flags, cinema of "victims of a revolution" and a hulk sketch of Bouazizi.

"I demeanour around me and see many immature people in a throng who braved a bullets of Ben Ali's military final year to urge a values of leisure and dignity," tellurian rights romantic Sabrine Ammari told AFP.

A relic representing Bouazizi's travel case surrounded by wheelchairs symbolising suspended Arab dictators was denounced to applause, while kinship leaders, rights activists and members of a new basic public took to a microphone.

The renouned uprisings that widespread from Tunisia opposite a Arab universe in 2011 led to a ouster of Ben Ali as good as a leaders of Egypt, Libya and Yemen, while lethal anti-regime protests continue to disturb Syria.

Ben Ali was suspended on Jan 14 and went into outcast in Saudi Arabia though is a theme of 18 trials in Tunisia on a fibre of charges including murder and destabilising a state, embezzlement, rascal and abuse of power.

He has already been condemned to 66 years in jail in total, and also has an general aver out on his head.

Tunisia's newly-elected basic public -- dominated by a assuage Islamists of Ennahda -- on Monday inaugurated former antithesis personality Marzouki as president.

Prime minister-designate Hamadi Jebali, Ennahda's series two, is scheming to form a supervision that faces a plea of formulating jobs and building a long-neglected interior regions of a country.

In Sidi Bouzid, demonstrators uttered their honour during Tunisia's pioneering purpose in a Arab Spring though also their disappointment that a guarantee of a series has nonetheless to bear fruit.

"Nothing has been achieved yet. No jobs have been combined and there has been no amicable or mercantile develop," pronounced impoverished 28-year-old Moncef Dridi. "The immature people who accepted Bouazizi's gesticulate are impatient."


News referensi http://news.yahoo.com/tunisians-mark-since-revolutions-spark-151615115.html

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