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Tunisia Video: Tearing Down the President's Picture


             

 DateTuesday, January 11, 2011 at 14:16 | AuthorScott Lucas in ,

(A graphic video of doctors trying to treat the injured in a hospital in Kasserine, where more than 20 people were killed this weekend, is racing around the Interent, even though YouTube has refused to allow it to be posted because of the bloody images. We are linking to it, but readers are warned that it is, in the words of the site that posted it, "horrendous and atrocious".)

Claimed footage of police use of ammunition and tear gas:

Claimed footage of a mass protest in Ben Guerdane in eastern Tunisia today:

Yesterday we posted a video of protesters taking down an image of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from the front of a building. Today we get footage of demonstrators going even farther, tearing the President down from a billboard.

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