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Title: | Tunisia after Ben Ali : retooling the tools of oppression? |
Authors: | Lutterbeck, Derek |
Keywords: | Tunisia -- History Interim governments -- Tunisia Tunisia -- Politics and government Police -- Tunisia -- History Internal security -- Tunisia -- History Authoritarianism -- Tunisia -- History |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
Publisher: | Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre (NOREF) |
Citation: | Lutterbeck, D. (2013). Tunisia after Ben Ali : retooling the tools of oppression?. Policy Brief, May 2013, 1-3. |
Abstract: | Tunisia under Ben Ali was a police state par excellence and reforming the country’s internal security apparatus has thus been one of the major challenges since the long-standing autocrat’s fall. This policy brief examines the various efforts to reform Tunisia’s internal security system in the post-Ben Ali period and the challenges this process faces. It argues that reforms in this area have been limited so far, focusing mainly on purges rather than on broader structural or institutional reform of the country’s police force. Moreover, not only have human rights violations committed by the police – despite important improvements – continued on a significant scale, but there are also concerns that the police will once again be instrumentalised for political purposes, this time by the Ennahda-led government. Indications to this effect have included in particular the seeming complacency of the police vis-à-vis the growth in religiously inspired violence. The recent killing of opposition leader Chokri Belaid in the first political assassination in Tunisia since Ben Ali’s fall has further underscored the need to reform the country’s internal security system. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/90460 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - InsMADS |
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