Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (born 1936), former President of Tunisia, 1987–2011
The lowest gun ownership rate among the 178 countries surveyed as of 2007 was reported from Tunisia, with 0.1 (or a total number of 9,000 guns), due to very strict gun control under the Ben Ali regime (compare the rates of the neighboring states, Algeria: 7.6, Libya: 15.5).
The lyrics of the song protest the corruption of former Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and the situation of the Tunisian youth, particularly the impoverished.
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Craxi escaped the laws he had once contributed to make, by fleeing to Hammamet, Tunisia, in 1994, and remained a fugitive there, protected by Ben Ali's government.
January 2003: Mr. Azmi Khaled, Special Envoy of the Prime Minister, to President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
In their support for the Tunisian Revolution's aims toward freedom and democracy, the TCC has written to the US Senator of California Barbara Boxer, requesting to freeze the overthrown President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's assets.
The Jasmine Revolution ended a month later on January 10, 2011 when Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the ruler of Tunisia for 23 years, fled the country.