While the terrorist attacks that multiply in Kasserine, 54 km further north, in the city of Thala, a general strike was announced this Monday, March 9.
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After a week of strike led by “political parties, organizations, unions and citizens” which are not identified, it was decided to start a sit-in in front of the headquarters of the Thala delegation, this Monday, March 9, 2015, according to a press release.
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“We agreed to fight against the government whose regional power depleted us … while central power treats us with a deaf ear policy. »»
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“We have agreed, between components of civil society in Thala, to resort to climbing, by the peaceful route,” for the moment “, threatens the organizers of the strike going as far as” civil disobedience “of the whole city, this Tuesday, March 10,” if the government continues its policy of marginalization “.
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The organizers of the strike, among others “The Thala Reality theater association, even threaten to start an open sit-in in front of the Assembly of People’s Representatives in Bardo and before the President of the Government at the Kasbah of Tunis so that their regional development claims are made.