Jim Ellinger is a longtime community media activist based in Austin, Texas. He now spends much of his time and effort assisting a variety of media, co-op and business groups around the world. He has visited more than 100 cities in 25 countries or territories since 9/11.
Thursday, March 19, 2015
We will, of course, be visiting the Bardo Museum
while in Tunis next week. Not gonna' be scared off
by some scum bags who shoot old ladies coming off
a tourist bus. (3.19.15 Austin, TX)
Thousands March After Shooting Rampage at Tunisian Museum
A shooting rampage at Tunisia’s national museum has left 22
people dead — 20 foreign tourists and two Tunisians. Nearly 50 people
were injured. The two gunmen began the attack by opening fire on
tourists as they got off a bus and then chasing them inside the museum.
The Bardo museum is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Tunis
and is adjacent to the country’s Parliament building. The dead included
residents of Japan, Italy, Colombia, Australia, France, Poland, Spain
and Britain. It was the most serious attack in years in Tunisia,
where the Arab Spring began in 2011. Thousands of Tunisians have
marched in the streets to denounce the shooting. The Tunisian government
has pledged to wage what it calls a "merciless war against terrorism."
Tunisia's army is being deployed to the country's major cities following the March 18 attack on a museum
in Tunis that killed 23, Reuters reported March 19. Security forces
have arrested four people in connection to the attack in Tunis.
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Tunisia Museum Attack Is Blow to Nation’s Democratic Shift
CAIRO
— Gunmen in military uniforms killed 19 people on Wednesday in a
midday attack on a museum in downtown Tunis, dealing a new blow to the
tourist industry that is vital to Tunisia as it struggles to consolidate the only transition to democracy after the Arab Spring revolts.
