Infos zum Thema algeria

This is not insurrection, not now … Rich country, poor people. For the young people who have been occupying the streets for the past few days to scream their despair, this paradox is inacceptable. Bab El Oued Those who have lived the October 1988 riots have been feeling the same anxiety since Friday the 7th January 2011. The capital city of Algiers offers this familiar sight of violent events’ aftermaths. Soldering tyres on the floor, burned cars, shattered facades of public buildings and private businesses; the Algerian youngsters’ anger has been fed by all that came to hand. There is an odd silence in the city’s districts and a strange atmosphere weighs upon populations in despair. Rumours thrive in this general stupidity. The army will intervene, the Internet and the telephones are monitored, the mosque will give out orders and many other “news” are spread by social networks or sms’. How did it all start? Is it really important to give the time and place of this public riot in a country that has recorded nearly 9000 protests and upheavals in 2009? Lack of housing, inflation, unemployment, low wages, lack of drinking water, gas or electricity cuts, various and diverse injustices… The Algerian people have exhausted all the listed causes of protest that exist. The only novelty is that they have recently risen at the same time, from East to West. Bab el Oued, the emblematic district for rebellion and whose credo is “Bab El Oued Shuhada” (Martyrs of Bab El Oued) sounded the start of the riots. Let’s say the situation changed with the announcement of the increase of about 20 to 30 % in the prices of sugar, oil, flour and cereals. These commodities have become as unaffordable as meat, fruit and vegetables. The youngsters coming from Bab El Oued and other popular areas of Algiers have transformed a spark into flames. The youth of Bab El Oued scrupulously maintain the legacy of their elders, who in 1988 were the first victims of gunfire and military police.