Open letter to the government: the Casbah, the repression of shame
Gentlemen
we have, we Tunisian, lived 23 years of dictatorship, 23 years of sleep, 23 years headed a government affected by gangrene to think that the country itself was Fel, and then one day, a man lit the torch, and people did not burn but lit up, our blood has driven gangrene, our blood woke us up and we all thought that it was finally possible, we could write our history, we could leave our children a free country and we thought we could say "at the time" talking Ben Ali, we thought that in 20 years, we tell our children this spring with nostalgia for revolutionary overnight where everything became possible, we'll talk, we will witness the history that we've written and which we remembers every day of every hour, without having reviewed our history lessons, we will say that the unemployed were our liberators, that young unemployed became the hero of the neighborhood, they defended their country spontaneously without belonging to any institution, the Tunisian was "citizen" but repressed by repression. We talk about the blessed time in our history as our parents spoke fondly of Bourguiba and looked away embarrassed when our prying eyes asked them "why did you let him do all the time, what country you have left?" We have torn ourselves our liberty, fought repression.
It was so bloody days of deadly clashes where no one could discern the red flag over the blood of our brothers, sisters ...
And the tyrant is gone like a rat chased him and his offspring into exile. The people chosen are zine, "Dies Irae" days of rage: "God said, What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cries out from the earth to me. Now art thou cursed from the earth opened its mouth to receive thy hands the blood of your brother. When you till the soil, it will give her strength. You'll be a fugitive and wanderer on the earth. Cain said unto Jehovah, My punishment is too large to be supported. Here, you drive me today of this earth, I shall be hidden from your face, I will be wandering wanderer on the earth, and whoever find me will kill me. "(Genesis 4, 10-14)
The provisional government was then formed, without convincing anyone, and the minions of bin ali still occupied key positions. And then it was a tidal wave that invades the human kasbah, answering the call of the blood of their martyrs, driven by 23 years of misery, may be instrumented, but in any case well defined. The government relented to pressure from the street, and dismiss some ministers and replaced them with technocrats. Most of Tunisia is satisfied and calls for a return to calm, except the minority of irreducible who refuses to end the fighting, which requires the total dissolution of government and the departure of Prime Minister reminiscence of the years of shame. Opinion is divided between on the one hand, the duty of the humanitarian supplies, to provide minimum sanitary condition, and the other does not share their ideas and their struggle they are free to conduct under democracy.
Except that the government did not intend it that way. A bloody battle to dislodge them by force took place, and we had to relive the feeling in the January 28, 2011 before January 14. And our disappointment was great, Gentlemen of the government. Our disappointment was immense against this huge flashback that recalls the dark years of the time benali, where they were oppressed, attacked for the same reasons cited in the beating of protesters in the kasbah, SECURITY!
Gentlemen, you do not understand our struggle! Our fight is a fight for dignity, we have proven through our civic consciousness that we were able to ensure our security. It is our dignity as men we paid the price of blood. The new government has proven once again despite all his promises, my fehemenech elli. Democracy begins with respect for the opinion of the other even if different. In whose name have you decided to attack our fellow citizens who peacefully occupied the premises? Today, I ask for an investigation to determine responsibility of everyone in this battle of shame;
Everything we have done all for naught? Today it is them that beat up, tomorrow will be me, it will be us, because you must understand the governors gentlemen, that despite differences of opinion, classes, religions, gender, we are all united, we all Tunisians and we claim a life worthy gentlemen. The household must be done within your Ministry of the Interior or you will lose all credibility. Do not throw oil on the fire, we are ready at any time to burn us ...
JOLANARE,
Blogger, a Tunisian citizen activist