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11 Killed in Tunisia Protests

   VOA News 09 January 2011
   Tunisians  protest against high prices and unemployment, Tunis, 08 Jan
   2011.

Photo: AP

   Tunisians  protest against high prices and unemployment, Tunis, 08 Jan
   2011.

   Labor  and  opposition officials say the latest rioting in a series of
   protests  that  started  nearly  a  month ago has killed 11 people and
   wounded several others.
   The  officials  said  protesters  angry  with  Tunisia's  lack of jobs
   clashed  with security forces Saturday and Sunday in the western towns
   of Kasserine and Thala, near the border with Algeria. Â
   The Associated Press also has reported deaths from rioting in Regueb.
   Riots  in  the  North  African nation were triggered last month when a
   26-year-old university graduate in the central city of Sidi Bouzid who
   could  only  find  work as a street merchant set himself on fire after
   authorities  confiscated  his  produce.   The man, Mohammed Bouazizi,
   later died of his burns.
   Protests  are  rare  in Tunisia, where the government tolerates little
   dissent.

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