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The self-immolation of a young man just over two weeks in a small town in Tunisia has burned to the North African country supposedly more stable and more spoiled by the European Union after Morocco. Tunisia lives its greatest crisis since Ben Ali 23 years ago agreed to the head of state. It is also the first country in the world whose official websites have become inoperative after a massive attack by hackers Anonymous.

Poster in English by Anonymous posted on public websites Tunisian attacked at the request of young Internet .-
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

all started on December 17 when police turned on the little town of Sidi Bouzid the full picture fruit and vegetables Bouazizi Mohamed, a graduate in computer science 26 years in unemployment since the end of career. Although the small Maghreb country with highest per capita income in Tunisia more than half a million unemployed, a total of 10 million people, many of them young graduates. Bouazizi

had become a street vendor to provide an income for his family, but officials punished him because he lacked the requisite license to engage in it. Desperate, he blew himself up outside the headquarters of the Civil Government, died on Wednesday at a hospital, and his action caused a ripple. Protests erupted in much of the country, first in small towns and then in the capital, where thousands of people gathered at the single union headquarters, the UGTT, which gives back the protesters.

In the small town of Mezel Bouzayane two demonstrators shot and wounded on December 24, also died days later and then another young man committed suicide by jumping into some power lines while shouting against unemployment and the high cost of living. In total there have been so far four dead, dozens injured, probably over 100 detainees and material damage to public buildings.

"The strike is the spark"

"The strike is the spark that caused this revolt", explains in his blog Lina Ben Mhenni, 27, "but protesters Critics also about power. "The Tunisians are tired of the 23 years of dictatorship, corruption and lack of freedom of expression," he adds. The slogans chanted spontaneously began to denounce social injustice, but rapidly expanded to encompass the corruption of the presidential family on the State Department cable released by WikiLeaks provide juicy details.

Bouazizi In the burial of about 5,000 people shouted on Wednesday in Sidi Bouzid "Shame on the government!" while promising revenge: "Today I cried, but tomorrow we will mourn those who have pushed you to suicide." Many Internet users and the College Lawyers have called a general strike for Thursday.

President Ben Ali has reacted by mixing gestures of compassion, promises and threats. Bouazazi visited the Ben Arous hospital where she was admitted, announced on television that in the coming years devoted 3.495 million euros to combat youth unemployment, dismissed the ministers of communication and trade, but also attacked the " political instrumentalization "of protests.

also attacked Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab satellite television, which has become the main source audiovisual information of the Tunisians, the public media ignore the revolt, although it is being waged on the Internet where much of the battle between the regime and its opponents. Tunisia is the country's area with the highest Internet penetration, but also where the network is more controlled. Arde

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Tunisian Internet users manage to circumvent the controls and disseminate videos of the demonstrations or convene Monday in Thala, through Facebook, a high school student strike. Anonymous asked for help, the hackers who launched with companies and institutions Julian Assange hurt, and they have responded. "The Tunisian people have asked us to help and we have given," says the group of hackers. "Who would have thought the first cyber war (between people and his regime) would take place in Tunisia, Tunisian blogger asks Sarah Ben Hamadi.

Earlier this week, all the websites of the presidency, government and public institutions in the country had stopped working because of the offensive Anonymous, although the portal Tunisia Tunisie Numérique stated that some of those pages had been closed by their managers to avoid greater evils in case of attack by pirates.

Anonymous posted a text on websites attacked in denouncing the "outrageous censorship" imposed by Ben Ali on the Internet. Also criticized "the free and open press," the Western world whose responsibility is "to account for what the Tunisian media, subject to censorship, can not tell."