Claim: Rachid Ammar was the chief of staff of the Tunisian Armed Forces who was sacked by Zine El Abidine Ben Ali when he refused to give the order to shoot the Tunisian protesters.
Evidence: Rachid Ammar, or Rchid Ammar (Arabic: رشيد عمار‎)(born 1947 or 1948) was the chief of staff of the Tunisian Armed Forces. On 13 January 2011, Ammar refused to follow the orders of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, then president of Tunisia, to shoot protesters participating in the 2010–2011 Tunisian protests. Ben Ali then sacked Ammar for not obeying his order and put him under house arrest.