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Abschlussbericht der Tunesienexkursion
5. Frage: That in mind: Do you think that you are the supplier of information that links two
groups of people. On the one hand people in the country who are more frenquently being
victims of injustice, but have no means of making themselves heard and on the other
hand the people in the city, the ones with an internet connection who would care and
show solidarity if they only knew about it?
• Well I'm one of the people who connect the people in the country with people here
in the city. I think so. Sure many people living here in Tunis, in the capital and in
the big cities don't really care about what's going on. yeah (laughs). It's sadly true.
In other parts of the country. I guess that when everything started this time in Sidi
Bouzid many people here in Tunis didn't know anything in Sidi Bouzid, never
visited, didn't know anything about it. So yes, I think that bloggers were a
connection between those two groups of people.
6. Frage: This is interesting, because we have had preceding interviews with Tunisian
Photographers and Bloggers and one noght they told us that they would not see
themselves as political persons, although they were actively taking pictures of the protests
and things related to the revolution and put them online. How would you explain that?
• It is the same for me. Even in my book I say: I don't care about politics. What's
important for me is human rights, freedom, freedom of speech. I don't care about
politics and by politics I mean political parties and all this political activity. I'm not
interested in being part of the government, or a political party.
7. Frage: Now, if we call this what happened a revolution. What role do you think Internet
activists and bloggers can take after this revolutionary act?
• Actually I don't call it a revoluion. It's the beginning of a revolution. The ousting of
Ben Ali is just the beginning. The hardest part of to dos in front of us is, we have to
continue to work. Now we have to make people aware of what's going on. We
have to control what the government is doing. Many things didn't change, so we
have work on improving things, or make people aware of these problems.
8. Frage: Our group is more about politics in general, so we talked to parties, NGOs and
especially women and just in general. What political and general conditions in the public
sphere have changed after the revolution. What would you say has improved?
• Well I think that the difference is now, that we used to have one political party. One
ruling political party. There were other dissident political parties which were
oppressed. The difference now is that there are many political parties. Many
political parties emerge, as there are now something like 105 political parties and
this is a big difference. And there are many new NGOs and associations.
9. Frage: And do the people on the streets have new rights to enter the public sphere?
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