Tunisian self-immolations

In the six months immediately after Mohamed Bouazizi's (WP) death, at least 107 Tunisians tried to kill themselves by setting themselves on fire. The men who self-immolated are mostly young men from poor, rural areas, unmarried and have only basic education. Amenallah Messaadi, who has collated the figures and is head of the Burns Centre, said that people shouldn't glorify the act of self-immolation and "should stop adding fuel to the fire".

""I had no education, no job and was desperate...The whole country seemed to be on fire, so I set myself alight too, but it hasn't made things any better. I've destroyed my life and that of my family." Hosni, from Gasserak"

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• Self-immolation in North African protests
• 1987 coup d'état in Tunisia
• Anarchopedia:Current events
• Jasmine Revolution
• Mohamed Bouzazi
• Algerian self-immolations
• 2010–2011 Tunisian protests (WP)
• Wikipedia:2011 Algerian riots