[ti:Tunisians Mourn Loses in Jasmine Revolution]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:IN THE NEWS]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:05.12]in VOA Special English.
[00:08.06]Tunisia is observing
[00:10.62]three days of mourning
[00:12.40]for people killed in the revolution
[00:15.20]that ousted the president a week ago.
[00:18.58]As many as one hundred people
[00:21.47]may have died since the start
[00:24.16]of the uprising in December.
[00:26.89]The former president,
[00:28.73]Zine el-Abidene Ben Ali,
[00:30.92]held power for twenty-three years.
[00:34.12]A temporary government
[00:36.61]has offered a general pardon
[00:38.80]to political prisoners and agreed to
[00:42.03]recognize banned political parties.
[00:45.17]The acting prime minister,
[00:48.58]Mohammed Ghannouchi, has also
[00:50.93]removed all restrictions on the media.
[00:54.35]The interim government
[00:56.80]promises to hold elections.
[00:58.99]And it has arrested members
[01:01.83]of Mr. Ben Ali's family
[01:04.07]for investigation of corruption.
[01:06.75]But protesters in Tunis and elsewhere
[01:10.54]continued to demand the removal of
[01:13.94]any officials from the old ruling party.
[01:17.62](SOUND)
[01:20.91]On Friday, the first day
[01:22.70]of national mourning, protesters
[01:24.95]in Tunis welcomed police officers
[01:27.98]who joined them for the first time.
[01:30.37]Still, the situation calmed enough
[01:34.21]this week for the government
[01:36.30]to announce that schools and
[01:38.53]universities will reopen next week.
[01:41.97]The protests grew out of anger
[01:45.26]over high unemployment and food prices,
[01:48.60]which are currently reaching
[01:50.63]new highs on world markets.
[01:53.42]The question now is how much
[01:56.40]the events in Tunisia
[01:58.35]will influence people
[02:00.24]in other countries,
[02:01.69]like this man in Algeria.
[02:04.17]MAN (TRANSLATED): "Our problem
[02:07.69]is not to do with cooking oil,
[02:09.08]sugar or semolina.
[02:10.23]Our problem is with the injustice,
[02:12.32]the plundering of wealth and oppression."
[02:14.94]Maha Azzam is a North Africa expert
[02:18.03]at Chatham House,
[02:19.42]a research organization in London.
[02:21.82]MAHA AZZAM: "Over the next few months
[02:23.56]leading up to the presidential elections,
[02:25.45]if we see protests
[02:27.84]on the streets in Egypt
[02:29.14]then we are underway
[02:30.88]to some very serious change
[02:32.72]in a key country in the region."
[02:34.91]In Cairo, a protester set himself
[02:37.84]on fire outside the parliament building.
[02:40.64]People have also burned themselves
[02:43.43]in other countries
[02:44.82]-- all reminders of the act
[02:46.86]of resistance that started
[02:48.90]the revolution in Tunisia.
[02:50.79]Mohamed Bouazizi, a vegetable seller,
[02:54.78]became so tired of abusive officials
[02:58.16]that he set himself on fire and later died.
[03:01.89]The events in Tunisia are being called
[03:05.33]the Jasmine Revolution
[03:07.42]after the national flower.
[03:09.51]But Tunisia is in many ways
[03:12.59]an exception in the Arab world.
[03:15.02]It has a solid middle class
[03:18.96]built by an economy
[03:19.86]not tied to oil production.
[03:22.20]It has a high level of education
[03:25.27]and more equal rights
[03:27.16]between men and women.
[03:29.11]And it has a popular army
[03:32.10]that has largely stayed out of politics.
[03:35.43]One political expert says
[03:38.77]even the corruption was different,
[03:41.16]limited mainly to the former
[03:43.56]president and his family.
[03:45.34]This week, Arab leaders
[03:48.58]held an economic summit meeting
[03:50.82]in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.
[03:52.96]Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
[03:55.80]called for investment in young people.
[03:58.89](SOUND)
[04:03.88]Employment is a major priority,
[04:07.37]he said, along with education,
[04:10.04]economic growth and social
[04:12.83]and human development.
[04:15.01]Arab League Secretary General
[04:18.30]Amr Moussa told the leaders that
[04:20.94]-- in his words
[04:21.98]-- "the Arab soul is broken."
[04:24.77]He warned them that
[04:26.86]"the Tunisian revolution
[04:28.26]is not far from us."
[04:30.84]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:33.28]in VOA Special English.
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[04:51.50]I'm Steve Ember.
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