When one day a people desire to live, then their night will begin to fade away, their chains break and fail”, Aboul-Qacem Echebbi’s poem The Will to Live. Chokri Belaid was a Tunisian lawyer and an opposition leader whose assassination in February 2013 sparked violent demonstrations and the most serious governmental crisis since the 2011 revolution. “Whenever the Ennahdha movement faces a crisis, […] we flee our problems through the use of violence”, denounced Chokri Belaid the day before his...
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