The head of Tunisia's transitional government Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi said Tuesday that officials who used violence to quell protests that ousted Tunisia's president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali last week will face justice.
In an interview with France's Europe 1 radio, Ghannouchi also said that those ministers who served under Ben Ali who have kept their jobs in the new government have "clean hands" and have always acted "to preserve the national interest".
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