LIGHTS ON The INVISIBLE: Barraket Essahel Affair

The Barraket Essahel affair remains one of the most controversial episodes in Tunisia's contemporary history. This book plunges the reader into the political climate of the 1990s, marked by fear, repression and suspicions of a plot against the regime of President Ben Ali.Drawing on eyewitness accounts, documents, police interrogations and victims' accounts, the author reconstructs the events that led to the prosecution of several Tunisian soldiers suspected of involvement in an attempted putsch. Devoted patriots or victims of a system obsessed with holding on to power?In a concern for neutrality and transparency, this research confronts the discourses, analyzes the facts and places this affair in its political and social context in order to distinguish the true from the false. Part memoir, part investigation, part historical analysis, this book pays tribute to the victims whose voices have long been silenced, and helps to shed light on a sensitive page in Tunisian history.

Pagina's: 92, Paperback, Our Knowledge Publishing