Tunisia: Neglect of Those Wounded in the Revolution · Global Voices
Salah Almhamdi

This post is part of our special coverage Tunisia Revolution 2011.
Tunisians have been expressing their dissatisfaction and anger regarding the government's poor treatment of those wounded during the Tunisian revolution. Before President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ousted hundreds of people were wounded in clashes with police, but they have since been neglected. Some of them have bullets still to be extracted from their bodies, and other had limbs amputated and are still waiting for prosthetic limbs. Many have not received the right medical treatment due to the complexity of their cases.
Prominent blogger and activist Lina Ben Mhenni wrote in a blog post entitled “The Wounded of the Revolution, Waiting for Something That Won't Come” [ar]:
Sit-in by families of men wounded during the revolution. Photo from machhad.com (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
Tarek Dziri and Muslim Bin Fraj Kasdallah, who threatened to self-immolate in front of the National Constituent Assembly on April 18, before the government decided to send them abroad to get more advanced care. Photo from machhad.com (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
Blogger Hada Ana wrote about one case [ar]:
Mohamed Bin Tijani El-Hanchi has a bullet inside his body. Photo from machhad.com (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
Rashad El-Arbi's parents went on hunger strike before the government took responsibility for his treatment. Photo from machhad.com (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
Yassine Ayari tweeted scathingly about the ruling Ennahda party:
Blogger Abdelkader Hammami mentioned a different side of the story [ar]:
The following video [ar] by Melomanx features a sit-in by men wounded in the revolution in front of the Ministry of Human Rights and Transitional Justice on March 26, 2012:
This video [ar] from TunisiaTalks shows the agony of the revolution's wounded:
This post is part of our special coverage Tunisia Revolution 2011.