“One day, I hope all Tunisians live in dignity. That’s what my brother wished for,” said Leila Bouazizi, sister of the Tunisian fruit seller who set himself on fire on Dec. 17, 2010.
A fruit vendor in Tunisia who set himself on fire in December started a revolution. Now Mohamed Bouazizi is remembered as a hero, but as Megan Williams reports, his relatives say they're being shunned.
To help us understand more about self-immolation and those who commit it, we are joined by Michael Biggs, a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, at the University of Oxford, who has been studying this form of protest.