Tunisian President Kais Saied on Sunday said he will compensate the families of those killed and wounded in the 2011 revolution that brought democracy to the country.
Dozens of youths were killed and hundreds injured during an uprising against the rule of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
Unrest began after Mohammed Bouazizi, an unemployed 26-year-old, protested government corruption by setting fire to himself outside a municipal office in the town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia on December 17, 2010.
Bouazizi, who had been supporting his family by selling fruit from a cart, was enraged when local officials repeatedly demanded bribes and confiscated his merchandise.
Tunisia’s revolution is widely considered to be the only one of the uprisings (Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Libya) to have succeeded in replacing an autocratic government with a stable democratic government.
Saied has promised to uphold rights and freedoms won in the revolution.
