Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Tunisian Opposition Leader's Funeral Draws Thousands
TUNIS -- In an outpouring of grief and anger, thousands of Tunisians filled the capital's main cemetery on Friday to bury Chokri Belaid, an opposition politician whose assassination this week stirred fears in Tunisia and throughout the region of political violence that could subvert the Arab uprisings born here two years ago. In bracing scenes that recalled the 2011 revolution against Tunisia's autocratic leader -- and in numbers not seen since -- mourners directed much of their anger at Tunisia's post-revolutionary government and the Islamist party that leads it, deepening the sense of a growing crisis. With much of the country quieted by the largest labor strike in decades...
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