Mohamed Bouazizi

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Mohamed Bouazizi ( Arabic محمد البوعزيزي, DMG Muḥammad al-Būʿazīzī ; fully Tarek al-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi ; * March 29, 1984 in Sidi Bouzid ; † January 4, 2011 in Ben Arous ) was a Tunisian greengrocer whose self-immolation on December 17, 2010 in Sidi Bouzid was the immediate trigger of the revolution in Tunisia 2010/2011 , which after 23 years of rule led to the overthrow of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali led and sparked the Arab Spring .

Self-immolation

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Bouazizi had to support his mother and five siblings as a teenager after the early death of his father. Therefore he worked as a greengrocer with a mobile market stall. In this way he made it possible for his siblings to attend school and for himself the Abitur . The cause of his suicide was the multiple closings of his vegetable stall due to a lack of authorization, the confiscation of his products and his scales , his unsuccessful complaint to the city administration and the subsequent mistreatment at the police station. He died on January 4, 2011 in a hospital in Ben Arous near Tunis. Bouazizi's brother Salem and sister Leila denied that it was a suicide. According to Leila, it was an accident. He doused himself with gasoline because he could not bear the shame of having been slapped by a female police officer. He jumped around cursing and screaming; apparently he accidentally struck a spark with his lighter and set himself on fire.

"His act was the spark that ignited the conflagration and ultimately changed the entire Arab world," wrote Ibrahim al-Koni on March 1, 2011 in the Tagesspiegel .

Imitations

Bouazizi's act found imitators several times, in Tunisia, Morocco , Algeria , Mauritania and Egypt .

Honors

The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, awarded by the European Parliament , went posthumously to Mohamed Bouazizi in 2011, along with four other personalities from the Arab Spring, on the grounds that “Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest at the humiliation by the Tunisian authorities. His death sparked the Arab Spring protests. "

literature

  • Hamid Sadr : The curse of the greengrocer Mohamed Bouazizi. Democracy or Rule of Islam? Lecture in Vienna City Hall on March 8, 2011 (= Vienna Lectures in City Hall; Vol. 158). Picus, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85452-558-5

Web links

Commons : Mohamed Bouazizi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica : Mohamed Bouazizi
  2. ↑ Leo Wieland : Generation without air to breathe. In: faz.net . January 9, 2011, accessed January 23, 2011 .
  3. ↑ a b What happened before Muhammad's martyrdom in: Spiegel Online from January 23, 2011
  4. ↑ a b First constantly fussing, then a slap in the face in: Tages-Anzeiger from January 21, 2011
  5. ↑ Slap to a Man's Pride Set Off Tumult in Tunisia in: New York Times of January 21, 2011
  6. ↑ Leo Wieland: Even more dead and injured. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 10, 2011, accessed January 12, 2011 .
  7. ^ Yasmine Ryan: The tragic life of a street vendor , Al Jazeera , January 20, 2011.
  8. ^ Tunisian who sparked rare protests dies: relatives. In: Reuters . January 5, 2011, accessed January 12, 2011 .
  9. ^ Ian Black: Tunisia's protests spark suicide in Algeria and fears through Arab world. In: The Guardian . January 16, 2011, accessed January 23, 2011 .
  10. ↑ In Egypt, man sets himself on fire, driven by economic woes. In: Al-Ahram Online. January 17, 2011, accessed January 23, 2011 .
  11. ^ Sakharov Prize for Arab activists. In: Zeit Online from October 27, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Bouazizi, Mohamed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bouazizi, Tarek al-Tayeb Mohamed (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tunisian greengrocer
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Sidi Bouzid
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 2011
Place of death Ben Arous