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Hello, no sorry, Walid Tayaa, from Tunisia
I need to understand
to make a sort of autopsy
to go inside of events and reflect.
because I consider that Ben Ali’s
23 year era was a disaster on all fronts.
an enormous cultural catastrophe for modern Tunisia
that Bourguiba, despite being a dictator, had tried to found
and that these 23 years were really a catastrophe.
So, I am trying to first understand the disaster that this era was
before trying to make a film about what occurred.
Revolution means, “Enough!”
"We cannot stand this anymore"
"we wish to live free, to be able to express ourselves we want to work, we want democracy, we want human rights
and we want to live, free, in our country."
The revolution was a revolution for dignity.
I insist on emphasizing this.
I was in the streets like thousands of people
with many other artists
before January 14th
and the official slogan of the revolution was
“work, liberty and national dignity”.
This is why people revolted, and the manifestations began in Tunis’ working class districts.
Why?
The children and teenagers began to whistle
and throw stones at the police because
these youths had had enough of being humiliated
being hit, being humiliated by the police and this *** regime.
So revolution, very simply, for work, dignity, and to live free.
Why do I say this?
This is what, to me, revolution is.
People rise up, like in Romania, like in Germany, like in Ukraine
- like I don’t know where - to live free!
People did not revolt to be able to wear the niqab
nor to create a theocratic religious state
nor for a Saudi-style wahabi state.