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The tragic life of a peddler :
Today we the cradle of the insurrection Tunisian and talk to the family of Mohamed Bouazizi.
In a country where officials have little concern for the rights of citizens, there was nothing extraordinary in humiliating a young man trying to sell fruit and vegetables to keep his family.
However, when Mohamed Bouazizi flammable liquid poured on her body and self-immoló outside the local municipal office, his act of protest cemented a revolt that finally end the egregious dictatorship of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali for over 23 years.
local police officers had humiliated Bouazizi for years, since I was a child. To his family, so there is some consolation in the fact that his personal loss has had at least impressive political consequences.
"I'm not Muhammad's death be in vain," said Mennubiya Bouazizi, his mother. "Mohamed was the key to this revolution."
Simple, penible life
Bouazizi Mohamed was 10 when he became the principal supplier and Sustainer for your family, selling fresh produce in the local market. He was in high school sufficient time for consideration by attending high school, but never graduated. (never attended college, like many news organizations had falsely infomrado).
Bouazizi father died when he was three. His older brother away from the family lives in Sfax. Although her mother remarried, her second husband suffers from several health problems and is unable to find a regular job.
"I never expected to study, because I knew that we had no money to offer a worthy study, his mother said.
At the age of 19, Mohammed interrupted his studies to work full time and offer her five younger siblings the opportunity to stay in school and have the possibilities that never would have.
"My sister was the one who was able to enter university and paid for it," said Samya Bouazizi, one of his sisters. "And I'm still a student and also gave me a pay and offered me all the attention."
asked to join the army but was rejected, the same refusal obtained in all other requests and demands of work. with his family at his office, had little choice but to keep going to the market.
To be clear, Bouazizi, he was only 26 when he died earlier this month, was honest and hardworking. Every day, would take his wooden cart to the supermarket and was carrying fruit and vegetables. Then I played every day walking more than two kilometers to the local souk.
Police Abuse:
And almost every day, he was harassed by local police.
"Since I was a child, mistreated him. He was accustomed to it," said Hajlaoui Jaafer, a close friend Bouazizi. "I saw him humiliated."
abuse took many forms. Above all, was the kind of bureaucratic despotism that many in the region know very well. Police confiscated his scales and its products, or we stopped, and stopped constantement by the operation of a post without permission.
Six months before his suicide attempt, police sent a fine of 400 dinars (280 dollars) to his house - the equivalent of two months of gains.
harassment was finally too much for the young on 17 December.
That morning, it became physical. A woman police confronted him on the way to market. returned to confiscate his scales, but refused to deliver Bouazizi. swore to each other, the police slapped him and, with the help of his colleagues, he putteth the floor, the woman police put the shoe on top of the face with an air of arrogance and superiority .
agents took their production and their scale.
Publicly humiliated, Bouazizi tried to seek help and support. went to the local municipality building and demanded a meeting with an official.
was told it would not be possible and that the civil servant was a meeting.
"It's the kind of lie that we are accustomed to hearing," says his friend.
protest as a last resort :
With no official willing to listen to their complaints, the young man brought a can of fuel, returned to street outside the building and caught fire.
For the mother of Mohammed, the suicide of her son was motivated not by poverty, but because he had been humiliated.
"as profundode came to his soul, that he wounded his pride humiliation," he said, referring to harassment by the police to. His son
The uprising that followed was swift and fast. From Sidi Bouzid spread to Kasserine, Thalia, Menzel Bouzaiene. Tunisians of all ages, classes and professions joined the revolution.
In the beginning, however, outrage was intensely personal.
"What really set fire to the revolution was that Mohamed was a man well known and popular. I would have given free fruit and vegetables to the poorest families," said Jaafar.
Ben Ali took him almost two weeks to visit the stretcher on which lay Mohamed Bouazizi dying in hospital in Ben Arous. To many observers, the official photo of the president looking down at the bandaged young woman had to publish a different symbolism than Ben Ali had been intention to pass.
Menobia Bouazizi said the former president was wrong in not complying with their child before, and when Ben Ali finally sent its "interested attention" to his family, it was too later - both to save his son, as to save his presidency.
He received Bouazizi family members in their offices, but for Menobia Bouazizi, the meeting sounded hollow.
"The invitation to the presidential palace came too late," he said. "We are confident that the president only made the invitation to try to derail the revolution."
"I was like a mother and a citizen to seek justice for my son."
"The president promised to do everything possible to save our son, even send him to France for advanced treatment and appropriate."
President did not fulfill his promise to his family, said Menobia Bouazizi, with two Grodan tears falling silently from her eyes ... small and aged.
contagious lifting :
While Bouazizi Menobia son dying in the early January 4, in his bed dying by severe third degree burns and the vulnerability of self-immunity, the insurrection had spread through Tunisia.
Fedia Hamdi, the last police humbled Bouazizi and used according to the locals to torment vendors, fled the city. was dismissed, but this missing
Meanwhile, the body of the man who unleashed an unprecedented revolution, is now in a modest and simple tomb of Sidi Bouzid was surrounded by Arab olive trees, cactus and flowering almond trees.
is greatly missed by his family, whose modest home is now one of the most active in Sidi Bouzid, with a steady stream of journalists who have just discovered the city where it all began.
"He was very sincere," said Basma Bouazizi, his shy sister of 16 years of age. "We as a body without a soul since he left."
"I feel like a martyr ," said Mahmoud Ghozlani, a local member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), in an interview a few meters from where the peddler was set on fire .
The test itself, the progress made in just four weeks short : To give a simple example, an interview with an opposition activist in the streets of Sidi Bouzid would not be possible until the day that inspired the revolt Bouazizi cambria the lives of all Tunisians and probably all African countries and Middle East.
Dear Brother Mohammed Bouazizi, with your blood gives us the freedom
can rest in peace and Allah
ejidos Yarhamuk
Marie Debussy
