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About the Jasmine Uprising in Tunisia and the beginning of the Arab Spring in 2010

Tunisia
EVENT NAME:
Jasmine Uprising, Tunisia, Arab Spring Begins (TN)(2010)
EVENT CATEGORIES:
Anniversaries , Military
Politics , Civil Rights
Middle East/West Asia
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Begins: Dec 17, 2022
Ends: Dec 17, 2022
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Today is the anniversary of the Jasmine Uprising, the catalyst for the Arab Spring.

On this day, a street vendor, twenty-six-year-old Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi, had enough. Enough corruption. Enough struggle. Enough brutality under one of North Africa’s most heavy-handed dictators, Ben Ali. Enough of everything. In the early hours of the day, young Bouazizi got up, loaded his wheelbarrow with produce, and headed to the market to sell them. On his way, government authorities confiscated his wheelbarrow and sole source of income and proceeded to beat him in public.

In his despair, he walked into the middle of the street, poured gasoline over his head, and lit himself on fire. This single act of defiance ignited the imagination of millions across the Arab world and was followed in quick succession with uprisings in Egypt, Libya, Palestine, Bahrain, and other nations.

By February 2011, the brutal dictator would be gone, and Tunisia would be remembered as the spark that ignited much-needed change across the Arab world.

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