The example of Mohamed Bouazizi, who set himself on fire in Tunis to protest the economic situation and became the wick of protests that have come to overthrow the dictator Ben Ali, continues to spread in Arab countries. If yesterday was an Algerian who was burned to the Bonze, today has happened in Egypt.This is a man who has been burned to bonzo before the Egyptian parliament, in downtown Cairo in a protest against poor living conditions in the country, officials and face. Apparently, the man tried to enter the Egyptian parliament to expose the problem and after that prevented them from joining the Legislature has been burned to bonzo.
An employee of Parliament has said the man, whose identity has not been officially disclosed, has poured gasoline on his body and then caught fire when several people tried to approach him. The flames have been suppressed and the injured have been taken to a hospital. According to the online version of the Egyptian daily Al Masri al Yom, quoting witnesses and police sources, the citizen called Ja'far and Abdelmanam Abdo is 49 years.
Witnesses have told this newspaper that before burning, he shouted: "State Security, State security, my right is lost in the state." Wave of protests Interior Ministry sources have clarified that the man owned a small restaurant in the province of Ismailiya, protesting its closure, ordered by the governor of the province.
Another security source noted that most serious injuries suffered in the hands and face and is hospitalized in serious condition. Yesterday, the Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abul Gheit, described as "absurd" the fears of contagion from the protests to other Arab countries. "Every society has its own specificities.
Those who seek to provoke an escalation will not achieve their goals," he said. The first one burned to the Tunisian Bouazizi bonzo was a month ago in a small city of the country. It was a 26 year old college graduate who earned their wages by selling vegetables they took a desperate measure, not knowing that his act would lead to the rapid end of the regime of president after five terms of autocracy.
Unemployment among youth overflowing better prepared academically, the desire to establish a democratic regime that guarantees freedoms, poverty wages of workers and peasants, excessive corruption and looting of public property committed by the president's family led a popular uprising December 17 with unprecedented consequences in the Arab world.
In no country in the region has ever achieved a popular uprising to oust President apparently so well established. Two other Algerians have died in the same way and their example spreads in other Muslim countries. Yesterday, a 37-year-old Buddhist monk burned it in the Algerian region of Tebessa, near the Tunisian border to protest the lack of employment.
Mohcine Buterfif was hospitalized in serious condition. This is the fourth attempted suicide by fire that is recorded in Algeria since last Wednesday, the daily El Watan. In all cases these are young men without jobs. Apart from Egypt and Algeria, Libya, another North African country gripped by a dictatorship, is being also the scene of several protests in the cities of Darna and Benghazi, where they would be recording incidents and burning some shops.
There are also pockets of protests in Tripoli, where they have deployed security forces. The information, which come from social networking sites are scarce. Muammar Gaddafi, who was in favor of Ben Ali, yesterday blocked YouTube. Outside North Africa, thousands of students protested on Sunday Yemenis in Sana'a, the capital, to show solidarity with the Tunisian and Arab peoples call to rebel against some leaders "liars and scared." In Jordan, who captained the protests were among hundreds of union activists and Islamic parties, which were planted at the headquarters of the parliament in Amman, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Samir Rifai, and demand political reform.
Also in Gaza there were marches in favor of the Tunisian people.
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