Pro-democracy movement, Hirak again active in Algeria

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ALGIERS, 10 March, 2021 (TON): On Tuesday fresh anti government protests broke out in the capital Algiers as hundreds of students and Hirak movement sympathizers took the streets.

The Hirak, is a pro-democracy movement that first mobilized in February 2019, that forced the then President Abdelazizi Bouteflika to step down from his fifth term of presidency.

Three weeks ago, the group again started the protests.

Demonstrators carrying banners reading "The regime is dead and it is not possible to resuscitate a corpse," marched through the capital's main streets to reach the Grande Poste, a traditional rallying point for supporters of the protest movement.

The protesters took up the Hirak slogans - for a "free and democratic Algeria" and a "civil and non-military state".

Since independence 1962, the protests movement demands the dismantling of the system, however, the protestors see the regime as little changed from the one led by his predecessor.

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