Tunisia's prized democracy 'will strike back' against terrorists

  • 8 years ago
Abdessattar Ben Moussa’s faith in democracy is unshakable.

He reiterated this when France made the members of Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet commanders of the Légion d’Honneur in Paris this week, just before the group was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in Oslo.

Touching on the Nov. 13th terrorist killings in the French capital and others, Quartet President Ben Moussa said:

“The terrible attacks that happened in Tunis in the same month tried to end the democratic process. We must help Tunisia’s young democracy to preserve peace in Tunisia, France and everywhere else in the world!”

The quartet representing Tunisian labour, industry, human rights and lawyers in 2013 helped save the foundations of Tunisia’s transition to democracy by organising difficult talks between the Islamist Ennahda party in power then and the opposition.

Of all the countries that experienced the Arab Spring uprising, only Tunisia—where the uprising first began in 2011—successfully rode out the sh

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