{"id":14423,"date":"2012-11-29T16:13:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T23:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14423"},"modified":"2012-11-29T16:14:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T23:14:47","slug":"tunisia-everyone-told-the-revolution-is-over-now-everyone-just-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14423","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Everyone told the &#8220;revolution&#8221; is over, now everyone just go home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tunisia sends in army to quell protests<\/strong><br \/>\n29 November, 2012 &#8211; Al Akhbar<\/p>\n<p>Army forces were dispatched to rein in protests in the impoverished Tunisian town of Siliana as clashes between security forces and demonstrators continued for a third day, leaving hundreds wounded.<\/p>\n<p>According to an Al-Akhbar correspondent in Tunisia, health officials confirmed that more than 200 people have been wounded so far as demonstrations over lack of jobs turned violent.<\/p>\n<p>Stone-throwing protesters clashed with police using shotguns and tear gas on Tuesday and Wednesday in the central Tunisian town. The army was sent in to replace police forces.<\/p>\n<p>Marches in solidarity with the Siliana protesters have sprouted across the country, including the capital, Tunis, to denounce police violence, Al-Akhbar\u2019s correspondent said.<\/p>\n<p>News channel France 24 reported that its Tunisia correspondent David Thomson and his driver Hamdi Tlili were fired on by riot police in Siliana during clashes Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Radio Express, Thomson confirmed that he was shot in the back by police officers with birdshots, a type of multiple-projectile ammunition typically used for hunting.  <a href=\"http:\/\/english.al-akhbar.com\/content\/tunisia-sends-army-quell-protests\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D14423&amp;text=Tunisia%3A+Everyone+told+the+%22revolution%22+is+over%2C+now+everyone+just+go+home&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunisia sends in army to quell protests 29 November, 2012 &#8211; Al Akhbar Army forces were dispatched to rein in protests in the impoverished Tunisian town of Siliana as clashes between security forces and demonstrators continued for a third day, leaving hundreds wounded. According to an Al-Akhbar correspondent in Tunisia, health officials confirmed that more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14423#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3752],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14425,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14423\/revisions\/14425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}