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 OFFLINE | The self-immolation (lighting oneself on fire) by a graduate vegetable seller that triggered the Tunisian uprising and brought down the government of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is leading the desperately poor in neighbouring countries to follow suit.
On Monday, Abdou Abdel Moneim Gaafar, the 49-year-old owner of a restaurant set himself ablaze on the pavement in front of the parliament building in Cairo, the Egyptian daily Al Masri Al Youm reported on its website. Before soaking himself with gasoline and lighting the match, Mr. Gaafar shouted that his country’s establishment had denied him his rights. The daily said that security personnel used a fire extinguisher to douse the flames, and the man had been taken to hospital where the status of his condition is unknown.
But on Sunday, a youth in Algeria who had torched himself a day earlier succumbed to his burns. Mohcin Bouterfif, 37, part of a group of 20, had set himself alight in front of a town hall after the mayor refused to meet them over jobs and conditions of housing, AFP reported.
Since last Wednesday, this was the fourth self-immolation attempt by Algerians. On Sunday, police managed to put out the flames after a 34-year-old unemployed man, who had torched himself in front of the domestic intelligence agency headquarters at a location 355 km east of capital Algiers. Earlier on Friday, a 27-year-old man set himself aflame in front of a police station outside Algiers, the daily El Watan said. The daily also reported that on Wednesday, a man in his forties, and father of six, set himself on fire on being denied registration to receive housing benefits. A town official intervened to scotch the flames, the daily added. |
can you even imagine the desperation?
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Originally Posted by Tonya Kiaunis-Dlugas: