Rasool said that he, his son, half a dozen grandchildren, and two other families crammed into the back of a cart pulled by a tractor.

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Her attendants ushered her forward to stand beside her betrothed while the best man made his peroration from the back of a donkey cart.

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It has been almost a year since the young Tunisian fruit vendor Mohammed Bouazizi was humiliated after Tunisian police confiscated his cart and demanded a bribe to get it back.

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He was driven back to his team's garage and could be seen limping as he got off a cart.

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