Thousands demand jobs in Tunisia police fire tear gas
(MENAFN- Arab News) TUNIS: Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters demanding jobs in the impoverished Tunisian city of Kasserine on Wednesday as smaller demonstrations broke out in the capital and at least eight other towns residents said.
Crowds burned tires and chanted 'Work freedom dignity' during a second day of demonstrations that erupted in the central city after an unemployed man killed himself apparently after he was rejected for a job.
The death evoked memories of Tunisia's 2011 'Arab Spring' uprising that broke out when a struggling young market vendor committed suicide unleashing a wave of anger that forced longtime leader Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali to flee and inspiring mass protests across the Arab world.
Residents said young people also took to the streets on Wednesday in Seliana Tahala Feriana and Sbiba El Fahs Kairouan and Sousse as well as the capital Tunis where several hundred marched on the city's central Habib Bourguiba Avenue.
Despite a shift to democracy many Tunisians worry more about unemployment high living costs and the ongoing marginalization of rural towns all factors that helped fuel the 2011 uprising.
Unemployment had risen to 15.3 percent by the end of 2015 compared with 12 percent in 2010 private sectors coupled with a rise in the number of university graduates who now comprise one-third of jobless Tunisians.
Crowds burned tires and chanted 'Work freedom dignity' during a second day of demonstrations that erupted in the central city after an unemployed man killed himself apparently after he was rejected for a job.
The death evoked memories of Tunisia's 2011 'Arab Spring' uprising that broke out when a struggling young market vendor committed suicide unleashing a wave of anger that forced longtime leader Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali to flee and inspiring mass protests across the Arab world.
Residents said young people also took to the streets on Wednesday in Seliana Tahala Feriana and Sbiba El Fahs Kairouan and Sousse as well as the capital Tunis where several hundred marched on the city's central Habib Bourguiba Avenue.
Despite a shift to democracy many Tunisians worry more about unemployment high living costs and the ongoing marginalization of rural towns all factors that helped fuel the 2011 uprising.
Unemployment had risen to 15.3 percent by the end of 2015 compared with 12 percent in 2010 private sectors coupled with a rise in the number of university graduates who now comprise one-third of jobless Tunisians.
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