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‘We had to get our land back’: Tunisian date farm proves revolutionary bright spot

‘We had to get our land back’: Tunisian date farm proves revolutionary bright spot

LAYLI FOROUDI AS revolution swept Tunisia 10 years ago, the people of Jemna saw their chance to settle a colonial-era score - seizing a 185-hectare (460-acre) date plantation just outside the oasis town. "We had to get our land back, we should be the ones using it," said Mohsen Ezzine, 40, who was among those who occupied the farm - claiming it as ancestral land - two days before then-President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali fled abroad in January 2011. A wave of land occupations took place during the revolt against Ben Ali's authoritarian rule, but a decade later much of…
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