THE mood on the streets of Tunis remains uncertain. A day after the president, Zine el-Abedine Ben Ali, fled the country (he is now said to be in Saudi Arabia), Tunisia’s future hangs in the balance. With a sense that the revolution is far from over, people have been stocking up on food and any other available supplies.
A state of emergency is still in place and armed troops patrol the capital. After a night of looting and arson, the military was out in full force on Saturday with checkpoints throughout the city and helicopters roaming above over head. Almost 50 people are reported to have died in two incidents at prisons; a fire swept through one prison at Monastir, a resort on the Tunisian coast, killing 42, apparently after prisoners tried to escape; at another prison further south, at least five people were killed after guards opened fire on them. The prison’s governor is said to have freed hundreds more in an attempt to avoid further bloodshed.
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