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Manoubia Bouazizi, mother of Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old set himself alight on Dec. 17, 2010 after a police officer confiscated the fruit and vegetables he sold to support his family, delivers a speech during the celebration for the first anniversary of the revolution, in Sidi Bouzid, central Tunisia, Saturday, Dec 17, 2011. It was in this hardscrabble town in Tunisia's arid interior that the death knell sounded exactly one year ago for the decades-old system of dictatorships in the Arab world. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)