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   فوزيّة الشّطّي 2012-8-5

   The current government is busy reproducing tyranny in the way of the RCD more than seeking to secure public freedom and extracting the Tunisian economy from the bottleneck. Whenever civil society opposes its decisions which are contrary to the revolution, it shouts fearfully playing the role of the victim: “they don’t accept electoral legitimacy”. It is reiterating this in every controversy, dispute or conflict even if less than a million and half a million Tunisians only voted for Ennahda. So what is the position of those who didn’t vote for it then? Do they have no existence?

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   الحبيب الهرقلي Habib Hergli 2012-8-2

   The solution lies in a harmonious and strong Islamic Troika which comprises Ennahda, Tahrir party and some salafist forces.

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   Anonymous 2012-8-1

   The article does not explain well that the state wants to compensate all of the victims of repression during the dictatorship. Saying that this is Ennahda’s plan to favour the Islamists is far from the truth. The dictatorial regimes of Bourguiba and Ben Ali severely and unjustly raged against all opposition – real or alleged – but the Islamists were more targeted than others for reasons of international politics. They were the target of a witch-hunt. At one point, there were 30,000 political prisoners who were Islamists or alleged to be so. The aim of the regime was to win favour with the Western countries by claiming to protect these countries against the unleashing of the wave of Islamist fanatics who wanted to commit terrorist acts. But the Western countries themselves were aware of Bourguiba’s and Ben Ali’s lies. Thousands of Islamists found refuge in Europe because their requests for asylum were found just after careful study. But their families who remained in Tunisia were the targets of all sorts of persecution. Their property – if they had any – was confiscated. Thousands of families remained without the means for subsistence either because the head of the family fled, was killed or was in prison. Recently, in France, President Hollande, like his predecessor Chirac, recognised the responsibility of the French state in France’s persecution of the Jews during the German occupation. This is to say that if even the government changes, the state must assume its responsibility for the injustices committed in its name. These were officials of the Tunisian state who arrested Tunisians, tortured them, raped them, etc. The state should thus compensate them. To oppose this is to commit another injustice.

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