HOW A SLAP SPARKED TUNISIA'S REVOLUTION

Mohammed Bouazizi was the man who started it all, a young fruit vendor from Sidi Bouzid with the sole intentions of providing for his family. He was the domino and the municipal official that slapped him was the push that set the domino into action and began the chain reaction that was the revolution around Tunisia. Zine Ben Ali had been in power for 23 years and it wasn't until Bouzazizi set himself on fire that the Tunisian people began to protest and fight for him to be overthrown.

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Ben Ali commanded his soldiers to shoot those who were protesting and the people of Sidi Bouzid took to Facebook, the only video-sharing platform available to them, to show the rest of Tunisia and the world what was going on. Once the revolution was set into action and Ben Ali began to get nervous he went on a PR campaign. What he didn't realize was that he was probably making it worse for himself when he took other politicians to pose for a picture visiting Bouazizi who was dying in the hospital. His intentions were wrong and the people of Tunisia saw right through him.  

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When he realized there was no way of undoing what he had already done he fled to Saudi Arabia. It was said to be “the revolt of the young” and the people of Tunisia used Facebook to show the world what other media outlets wouldn't. Mohammed Bouazizi was the domino that set the people of Tunisia into action and he gave his life to better the lives of those around him.