The inspirational power of a single gesture, brave and desperate can change the lives of many people at one stroke, his way of dealing with injustice and to the destiny of a nation. In an increasingly interconnected world and the media, seems capable of switching up the fate of many nations at once. That's three North African countries in which men have blown themselves desperate to bonzo following the example of Mohamed Bouazizi, young Tunisian lawyer who committed suicide in December after local police burst the street stalls of vegetables with which he earned life because they did not have a license.Her gesture not only incited the rebellion of his countrymen to overthrow the hated local satrap, but inspired citizens of neighboring countries. Yesterday, a man set himself on fire at the presidential palace in Nouakchott, Mauritania in protest against government oppression which is under his tribe and another, desperate for their miserable living conditions, he did in Cairo, before Parliament , and there are four who have followed the same route in Algeria.
To them, we must add at least another two Tunisian. In all cases, the underlying claim is political and social act, and local analysts take for granted the relationship with the gesture of Mohamed Bouazizi. The phenomenon is spreading despite the fact that is clearly contrary to the precepts of Islam.
The Mufti of the Republic of Tunisia, Otman Batik, the highest religious authority, remembered him explicitly. Oppressive regimes throughout the region should be gravely concerned about the spread, direct appeal to find in themselves the courage to rebel against these terrible acts represent.
The Polish communist regime's authorities did everything they could to cover the self-immolation of Ryszard Siwiec, who set himself on fire in September 1968 in a stadium with tens of thousands of people to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. It is unclear whether Jan Palach, the Czech student who immolated himself four months later in Wenceslas Square in Prague, heard the gesture of Siwiec.
What is clear is the effect produced Palach suicide: the courageous protests on the occasion of his funeral, the immolation of two other men in the months ahead. Similarly, the Lithuanian student Romas suicide Kalantar May 1972 in Kaunas the most vibrant inspired protests in the Baltic state since World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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