Bouazizi's death was widely credited for spurring Arab Spring uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East.
On December 17th, a young vendor named Mohammed Bouazizi was devastated when a police officer confiscated his cart.
Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old college graduate, supported himself by selling fruits and vegetables on the streets of Tunisia.
Even though Ben Ali eventually visited Bouazizi in the hospital and said he'd create more jobs, the damage was done.
His fate parallels the iconic death of Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor who set himself on fire in December 2010.
Bouazizi never saw the revolution he sparked, nor witnessed the path toward democracy that his country would begin to chart.
Although Tunisia has toppled a longtime ruler and held historic elections since Bouazizi's death, the country is still mired in political unrest.
He visited Mr Bouazizi in the hospital where he lay dying, offered compensation to his family and sacked the provincial governor as well as a government minister.
This partly explains why Mr Bouazizi poured petrol on himself.
The tragic death of Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi, by self-immolation, brought about a grassroots political movement among Tunisians that effectively overthrew the country's authoritarian ruler, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.
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.
Bouazizi was part of a younger generation that saw no future and he came from the interior of the county, a region long neglected and the object of contempt, Goldstein said.
Across Tunisia, somehow inspired by the story of Bouazizi or driven to desperation by the continued lack of economic opportunity, there are still cases of people pouring petrol over themselves and suffering the consequences.
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