June 11,2012
Those were the last public words attributed to Mohammad Bouazizi, the Tunisian vegetable seller who doused himself in petrol and set himself on fire – angered by a police officer who took away his vending permit, and a municipality that dismissed his complaints.
http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/arab-economies-will-live-or-die-by-governance-reforms