Le dernier chapitre reste à écrire: Sit-in du Destin

Le suivant est une simple traduction du dernier post. Veillez excuser mon Français. 

L’effet domino peut-il aller dans les deux sens? Je veux dire que nous avons entendu des noms comme: vendredi de la colère, vendredi de départ, vendredi de nettoyage, etc  pendant Les révolutions  de l’Egypte, de Yémen et de la Syrie. Les Tunisiens n’ont jamais été fan de donner des noms à certaines dates ou événements, mais nous voilà 6 mois après le renversement de Ben Ali arriverons avec un nom touchant: «Le sit-in du Destin».

Sur Facebook, appelé le 5ème pouvoir en Tunisie, la révolution n’a jamais cessé, le flux de nouvelles est bourré avec des voix en colère et insatisfaits, et là maintenant ça se convertie en une action réelle hors ligne.

Sit-in du Destin, a lancé sur le départ  midi du 15 Juin dans la place des droits del’homme à Tunis avec la participation des jeunes de différentes villes contrairement aux sit-in de la Kasbah1 et Kasbah 2  (Kasbah est le nom de la place de la Les édifices gouvernementaux).

Des petits sit-in n’ont jamais cessé de se dérouler cette période passée aux côtés des entreprises et des institutions médiatiques pour des demandes diverses.

Les principales revendications sont les mêmes que ceux crié d’avance:

• Indépendance complète du système judiciaire.
• Tenir les tueurs des martyres responsables de leurs crimes.
• Evincement de ministre de l’Intérieur: Habib Essid et ministre de la Justice: Al-Azhar Al-Karoui Al-Chabi.
• Restructurer l’instance supérieure pour atteindre les objectifs de la révolution en assurant cette fois-ci la participation des jeunes et les militants dans la décision politique.
• Se tenir a avoir les élections constitutionnelles à la date convenue: 23 Octobre.

Le renversement de gouvernement par intérim dirigé par Beji Caid sebsine ne figure pas parmi les exigences comme  annoncé par les jeunes manifestants qui ont souligné aussi que la liste définitive de leurs revendications est encore à l’étude par les jeunes participants au sit-in.

Il faut noter que ce sit-in a commencé après l’interdiction d’une réunion à la salle des conférences dans la capitale organisées par des jeunes dans le but de discuter des moyens d’incarner les objectifs de la révolution et trouver comment  l’empêcher d’être tordus ou volés.

Jusqu’à présent, le «Sit-In du Destin” n’a pas reçu d’attention des médias traditionnels, mais on s’attend à obtenir le soutien des partis politiques pour éviter d’être accusés de soutenir le gouvernement illégitime.

 

Last Chapter still to be written: Destiny Sit-in

Can the domino effect go in both ways? I mean we’ve heard of names like: Friday of Friday, Friday of Crawl, Friday of Departure, and Friday of Cleaning etc during the Egyptian, Yemeni and Syrian revolutions. Tunisians never been fan of giving names to certain dates or events but here we come 6 months after the overthrown of Ben Ali with a touching name: “The Sit-In of Destiny”.

On facebook, so called the 5^th power in Tunisia, the revolution never stopped, the news feed is over stuffed with angry and unsatisfied voices and now they are converting to an actual action offline.

Sit-in of Destiny, kicked start on the noon of June 15^th on the Human Rights Place in Tunis with the participation of young people from different cities unlike the Kasbah 1 and Kasbah 2 sit-ins (Kasbah is the name of the square of the Government buildings).

Smaller sit-ins never stopped taking place this past period next to companies and media institutions for various demands.

Main demands are the same ones shouted from before:

• Complete Independence of the Judiciary System.
• To Hold killers of the revolution martyrs accountable.
• Dismissal of Minster of Interior: Habib Essid and Minister of Justice: Al-Azhar Al-Karoui Al-Chabi.
• To restructure the Higher Instance for achieving goals of the revolution with the involvement of the young people and militants in the political decision.
• To stick with having the constitutional elections in agreed date: October 23^rd.

Toppling the interim government led by Beji Caid Sebsi doesn’t figure among the demands as announced the young protestors and stressed that a final list of their demands is still under study among the young participants in the sit-in.

It should be noted that this sit-in began after the banning of a meeting at the conference hall in the capital organized by the young men to regroup and discuss ways to embody the goals of the revolution and find ways to prevent it from being twisted or stolen.

So far, the “Destiny Sit-In” is not getting any attention from the traditional media but it is expected to get support from the political parties to prevent being accused of supporting the illegitimate government.

Siliana clashes: the death toll mounts

Colonel Taher Ayari father of Yacine Ayari-Blogger and activist

According to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights there were 219 people killed and 510 wounded during the violence following the fled of Ben Ali, 14 January. A loss, that responsible people haven’t been yet held accountable for.

Instead here comes news of clashes that took place in Siliana early morning of May 18th. The controversial part of news being: an armed group suspected first then confirmed to be Al-Qaeda-Maghreb, also called “Aqmi” composed of three Tunisians, four Algerians and three Libyans, according to Al Jazeera, came into confrontation with soldiers at the North Western’s Tunisian city Rouhia (Siliana).

The score would be three deaths in the ranks of our army:
Colonel Taher Ayari father of Ayari Yassine, a blogger and activist. Caporal Sghaier Mbarki and Walid Hadji, according to Al Jazeera and then state TV.

Walid Hadji

Another member of the army is wounded and so a resident of the town of Siliana- got shot in the arm.

Two terrorists were killed and the rest of the armed group in possession of grenades and Kalashnikovs has been arrested.

According to people there, the confrontation continues and the army is sweeping the area to get their hands on the rest of the alleged terrorists.

Helicopters and reinforcements were sent in to hunt down terrorists in the mountains of Dahmani.

The frustrating part in this sick scenario that both Aljazeera and the local media are playing to make everyone convinced that Al-Qaida has started it’s movements in Tunisia.

The minister of Interior spokesman said on Aljazeera that DNA and ID examinations of the bodies indicates that the terrorists are definitely from Al-Qaida (!).

Al-Chrouk, a daily Tunisian newspaper dedicated it’s first page to reveal that she got all Al-Qaida’s plan exposed!! While the rest of the media invented the story of a third terrorist who’s still out there representing danger.

Al-Chorouk front page- 20 May

This news comes during the visit of the Prime Minister Beji Caid Sebsi to Paris 9 days prior the G8 gathering and where he expresses that Tunisia’s first priority is to restore security.

A number of questions remain unanswered here:

If Al-Qaida members wanted to get to Libya from Algeria, why would they choose to pass through Tunisia knowing that there are many military checkpoints on the Tunisian roads and also knowing that Algeria and Libya do share borders.

Second, it’s so fishy that high ranked Army men get killed at the shared taxies stations. Usually commanders remain behind their desks monitoring the battle field and giving orders to soldiers on the ground. But in this case we have 2 high ranked Army members killed?!

The only explanation that we could think of is, that this interim government and the shadow one are desperate to make Tunisian believe that we’re under attack and therefore the elections won’t take place as planned on July 24th and though the interim government becomes a permanent one till security is gained again!

The second scenario is that this is an indirect sign to cyber-activists (taking in account that Colonel Taher Ayari is the father of one of the top activists and bloggers Yacine Ayari) to shut up!

To be noted also that online freedom of expression is yet not totally granted with 4 facebook pages newly censored already, founder of Kasba TV Mohamed Amine Slama arrested and another cyber activist: Youssef Patriote getting ready to move to Germany as a political refugee (First Tunisian refugee since January 14th!).

If you haven’t noticed that you are only seeing updates in your newsfeed from the same people lately?

PLEASE READ – THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE WHO USES FACEBOOK FOR BUSINESS OR PERSONAL REASONS.

{Shared by Abby Smith } Thanks Abby

 

Have you noticed that you are only seeing updates in your newsfeed from the same people lately? Have you also noticed that when you post things like status messages, photos and links, the same circle of people are commenting and everyone else seems to be ignoring you?

 

Don’t worry, everyone still loves you and nobody has intentionally blocked you. The problem is that a large chunk of your friend/fan list can’t see anything you post and here’s why:

 

The “New Facebook” has a newsfeed setting that by default is automatically set to show ONLY posts from people who you’ve recently interacted with or interacted the most with (which would be limited to the couple of weeks just before people started switching to the new profile). So in other words, for both business and personal pages, unless your friends/fans commented on one of your posts within those few weeks or vice versa – you are now invisible to them and they are invisible to you!!

 

HERE’S THE FIX: Scroll down to the bottom of the newsfeed on the homepage and click on “Edit Options”, click on “Show Posts From” and change the setting to “All Of Your Friends and Pages” then save the changes and there you, check your wall and you’ll notice the difference.

 

Note: This is the fix for personal pages but I am unsure of whether or not the business pages are set up the same way.

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