Tunisia Lives Freedom After 23 Years of Repression

After 23 years of repression, Tunisia lives for the first time a big party, celebrating that dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali left the power eight days ago.

On the streets the joy is felt, people paint walls with messages like “Freedom, democracy and secularism,” people preach discourses of freedom, sing the anthem of Tunisia, sell banned books publicly, and even mock with comic strips of the former president and his wife.

The riots for dismiss Ben Ali from the power began on December 17 and left dozen of dead people; however, his removal does not satisfy demonstrators that formed part of the Jasmine Revolution, because they are already organizing a march from Menzel Bouzaiane to the capital to demand the departure of the heads of government of the former regime. In addition some protesters are chanting against the Prime Minister, Mohamed Ghanuchi, who this morning has promised that he will abandon all political activities when all the undemocratic laws will be repealed and the elections have been held.