Three years ago, in an act of economic desperation and political defiance, a young street vendor in the south of Tunisia lit himself on fire.
Little did he know that his decision would spark massive protests across the country, and his name, Mohamed Bouazizi, would go down in history as the start of the end of ex-President Zein el-Abidine Ben Ali's 23-year rule.
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