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by selimthegrim 1419 days ago
Is France pulling the strings in Tunisia now?

My country gave Ben Bella the passport when he needed to go abroad to speak so I can hardly claim to be neutral here, but everything I’ve read about FIS doesn’t seem like they were that different from Taliban (I understand girls in school and not being married off were an issue)
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elchangri 1419 days ago
No one in their right mind living in former french colonies believes France has stopped pulling the strings. Postcolonial Africa (fr) legit has a name: la Françafrique.

Also shouldn’t it be the domestic electorate’s business if it elected the Taliban ? Or are we all of a sudden, against democracy?

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selimthegrim 1418 days ago
My brother lives in Tunis (and is not always a knee jerk fan of democracy) and my friend studies it for a living and just wrote an editorial in the Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/25/tunisia-c...) the other day, for sure I’ll ask them.

If you’re going to tell me FIS/GIA ran on that platform then sure, but I somehow doubt they were upfront about girls being out of school at first.

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elchangri 1417 days ago
As for the GIA when shit hit the fan it was swiftly infiltrated by the military to stage false flag terrorist attacks, target political opponents within the military and further demonize the Islamic party. The same military that got the green light from the ex-colonizer to stage the coup in the first place.

Then in 1999 after 250,000 people died and the FIS and Islamists’ images were totally destroyed, the government gave the “terrorists” amnesty and cash in exchange for peace. No jail, no criminal record, no legal. proceedings whatsoever. Almost like family.

Most people don’t care about democracy. Even the US who has waged countless wars in its name ironically has like a 55% avg voter turnout.

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elchangri 1417 days ago
Why does the platform they’re pushing matter? The west keeps trying to bomb places into democracies but then when the democratic process does not yield desired result, they stage a coup.

Even the anti-islamists were against the coup, which basically says it all.

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