Political violence and the efforts to salvage Tunisia’s revolution

The political assassination of nationalist politician Mohamed Brahmi last week is a personal tragedy for his family, who witnessed his brutal murder, as well as a national tragedy for a nation at least temporarily derailed from a process that seemed poised to produce a relatively stable democratic transition, thereby avoiding the violence, polarisation and paralysis of other post-Arab uprising states. Just as after the murder earlier in the year of secular leftist politician, Chokri Belaid, many are again attempting to make sense of what such political assassinations mean for Tunisia. Belaid and Brahmi’s murder, together with the latest episode of violence in the Jabal Chaambi…

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Political violence and the efforts to salvage Tunisia’s revolution

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