Tunisia: Pre and Post-Revolution

Tunisia: Pre and Post-Revolution

By Nabilla Gunawan | Monday, Mar. 15 2012

(TUNIS - Tunisia) Tunisia Revolution, the beginning of Arab Spring. Started off with one person: Mohamed Bouazizi. A 26 years old man who owns a vegetable cart. His cart was being confiscate by the local policewoman. This policewoman allegedly slapped him, spat and insult him. Bouazizi was dejected he wanted to talk to the local government, however they

Mohamed Bouazizi self-immolation triggers the Tunisia revolution.

refused to meet Bouazizi.

Without informing his family, at 11.30 Bouazizi came back to in front the local government building, he then poured fuel and immolate himself. This event triggers the revolution. Bouazizi did this for his dignity. That’s why later the Tunisians called this revolution: “The Revolution of Freedom and Dignity”.

Rallies started to spread all over Tunisia. Both in big cities and small cities.

Protester also use online platform such as twitter and Facebook. The most tweeted tweet was: ‘No to Ben Ali, even if we die’ The self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi wasn’t the only reason.

These people weren’t upset and disappointed because if that. The immolation of Bouazizi was a spark only, that’s the point where the people show that they had enough. On 14th January, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali finally fled to Saudi Arabia. He promise to hole legislative elections within six months.

The speaker of parliament, Foued Mebazza was sworn to become the temporary president and he began discussion with opposition parties on the formation of new government

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Tunisia has finally made it through the revolution. However, this doesn’t means that things goes well.

There are still unhappy Tunisians, they’re unhappy of the situation. They said that there are still dictatorship in this new government. Even though not all of the Tunisian think so. But the Tunisians are still fighting of human rights. The dictatorship cannot be eliminated just in 28 days, because dictatorship has been going on in Tunisia for 23 years. The Tunisians are still fighting for their rights.

Some media say all of the the Tunisian felt that their protest of being hijacked, but supposedly not all of them. Some of them were happy of the revolution, it can be seen from the graffito that these people wrote.

It is alright to say that the Tunisia condition now is still unstable and still disorganized. Many people were disoriented with this situation. This happens after the revolution, it’s a normal thing. The people of Tunisia will not stop fighting for anti-dictatorship and freedom. Most of these Tunisians are tired of fighting dictatorship: “Ben Ali was enough for me. I fought him for you, so I’ll leave you ti fight other dictators for me.” said one of the veteran. Tunisia slowly build their government structure. This govenment instability are also caused by the Arab Spring. Egypt and Syria.