The victims of the revolution in Tunisia .. the plight exacerbated marginalization

Khamis Ben Brik - Tunisia

The victim of the thirtieth revolution, Fuad al-Ajili, is dragged by his thin, heavy body with two sticks, while a part of his left leg is dangling from a bullet that has crippled him like pro-revolutionaries who sparked protests against former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's regime.

Fouad makes his way to the Habib Bourguiba Street on the eighth anniversary of the January 14 revolution. While many came to celebrate, Fouad and other revolutionaries attended to remind of their suffering as a result of their impunity and the authorities' delay in publishing the list of victims.

Since his leg was amputated over his knee by a bullet fired by a soldier in the city of Mesahed in Sousse on January 15, 2011, he said. He lost the grace of walking on his feet, lost his job in a scrap-collecting workshop and remained without a livelihood And his two great parents.

Blocked list
Fuad wonders why the Tunisian authorities - headed by the presidency - have delayed the publication of the final list of the victims of the revolution, although President Béji Kayed Sibsi admitted on 14 January that the list is ready, without disclosing its date of disclosure.

The families of the victims of the revolution carried out a protest a few days ago in front of the Prime Minister's Office to demand that the final list of victims be published in the Official Gazette, but the list remained blocked despite the fact that the Supreme Commission for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms completed its preparation and handed it over to the head of state, government and parliament.

Since the start of the protests on 17 December 2010 until the end of the former regime in early 2011, the fact-finding commission has counted 338 dead and 2,147 injured; the Supreme Commission for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms received 7,749 files, 386 of which relate to the dead.

Fuad, like others who have amputated their legs as a result of being shot, seeks to extract an official confession as a wounded victim, to reparation and to give him at least a job to protect his family from the specter of extreme poverty.

In May 2018, the young man attempted to commit suicide outside the prime minister's office by drinking rat tablets, but was rushed to the hospital where doctors rescued him. He tells Al Jazeera Net that procrastination by the government by enabling him to work pushed him to despair of life.

Impunity
Near the statue of Ibn Khaldun al-Shamikh in the center of Habib Bourguiba Street, where some parties revived the eighth anniversary of the revolution amid songs of songs and recitation of poems, Fouad stood near his friend Muslim God, one of the most prominent faces of the revolution wounded, known for his disgruntled speech to successive governments after the revolution.

A Muslim grabbed his crutches with his hands and put his right leg cut from above the knee above the right crutch, while the voice of his throat was loud and loud, chattering the songs, condemning the deteriorating health, psychological and social conditions of the victims of the revolution who are punished today for standing before the former regime.

On January 15, 2011, a Muslim was accidentally shot by police officers in the city of Al-Wardanin in the state of Sousse. However, no court order was issued by the military court condemning his executioners, who were easily evicted. They were rewarded with promotions within the Ministry of the Interior.

Like other wounded youth of the revolution, a Muslim goes to the neighborhood café every morning. And the sizzling expressions of anger on his brown face deteriorate his psychological situation, in light of the continued disruption of the file of the wounded after the revolution.

A Muslim guard at a university home in his hometown has a salary of up to $ 150, and because of his tightness and permanent disability, he feels what he calls "the bitterness of contempt and despair of life." He says he is addicted to sedatives.

Narcotic drugs
Amidst a small circle of supporters of their cause, a Muslim yells at the top of his voice accusing successive governments of punishing the victims of the revolution by sniping snipers and deliberately shooting demonstrators at the demonstrators and making the victims of the revolution addicted to narcotic drugs and marginalizing their cause.

Activists on the social networking platforms recently launched a campaign titled "Sib Al-Menui" (published the list), calling on the Tunisian authorities to publish a list of the dead and wounded of the revolution. The authors say that there is a political will to avoid publishing this list in order to scorn the youth who revolted against injustice and oppression.

The coordinator of this campaign Ali al-Makki of Al-Jazeera Net that successive governments after the revolution adopted the same method in the file of victims of the revolution, the establishment of a policy of impunity for those involved in the killing of demonstrators and the lack of attention to the victims of the revolution or even psychologically aware of the psychological.

He lost his brother in the Dakhqas district of the province of Tozeur (south-west) on January 14, 2011, and despite the procrastination of the authorities as he describes it, he has for years been defending the right of his brother and the rest of the injured. "As our children sacrificed their bodies for freedom, Lost rights ".