Tunisia Moves To Contain Fallout After Opposition Figure Is Assassinated -- New York Times
TUNIS — Tunisian officials moved quickly on Wednesday to contain the political fallout after a leading opposition figure was assassinated outside his home, announcing that they would dissolve the Islamist-led government and calling for a national unity cabinet as thousands took to the streets in protests that the security forces beat back with tear gas.
The killing of the politician, Chokri Belaid, one of Tunisia’s best-known human rights defenders and a fierce critic of hard-line Islamists known as Salafis, escalated simmering tensions in a society torn between its legacy as a bastion of Arab secularism and its new role as a proving ground for the region’s ascendant Islamist parties.
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