
A demonstrator offers flowers to soldiers on Jan. 21, 2011 in Tunis during a three-day period of mourning for the people who died during the country's revolution. Tunisia's emergence from the Arab Spring was not without substantial struggles, but its military does not wield political power and its constitution is focused on citizen's rights.
(FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images) A Tunis resident throws a stone while a police officer shoots a tear gas canister on Jan. 26, 2011 in front of former Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi's office. Pressure from protests against former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali throughout December 2010 and January 2011 forced the removal of Ben Ali's government on Jan. 14, 2011. (FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images) Protesters, one holding bread, shout slogans to show their solidarity with the residents of the Tunisian city of Sidi Bouzid during a demonstration on Dec. 27, 2010 in Tunis. Sidi Bouzid was the city where Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution first began in December 2010, after street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation prompted riots and demonstrations against the government. (CHRISTOPHER FURLONG/Getty Images) A man cuts himself with scissors during protests on Jan. 25 outside the Tunisian Interior Ministry in the government square in Tunis.