CAIRO -- An Egyptian man set himself on fire Monday outside the country's parliament, security officials said, in an apparent protest emulating the self-immolation of an unemployed Tunisian man last month that helped trigger a popular uprising.
Egyptian security officials said policemen guarding the parliament building in central Cairo and motorists driving by at the time used fire extinguishers to quickly put out the blaze engulfing the man. Health Ministry spokesman Abdel-Rahman Shahine said the man was taken to the hospital with light burns, mostly to his face, neck and legs.
The officials identified the man as Abdou Abdel-Monaam Hamadah, a 48-year-old owner of a small restaurant from Qantara, an area close to the Suez Canal city of Ismailia east of Cairo. They said Hamadah was protesting a government policy preventing restaurant owners from buying cheap subsidized bread to resell to their patrons.
A subsidized loaf of typical Egyptian flat bread sells for about 1 U.S. cent apiece, but sells for five times that much to restaurant owners.
Hamadah asked policemen guarding the parliament building to meet speaker Fathi Sorour, officials said. When they refused, Hamadah stepped back, took out a bottle filled with petrol from his pocket, doused himself with the liquid and set himself alight.
The policemen and passing motorists rushed to him with fire extinguishers to put out the flames.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.
The website of Egypt's leading Al-Ahram daily said Hamadah was a father of four and had repeatedly entered heated arguments with local officials over the bread issue.
Hamadah's act follows that of Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old with a university degree, who set himself on fire after police confiscated the fruits and vegetables he was selling without a permit. He later died in a hospital near Tunis, and his desperate act touched a nerve with educated, unemployed youths nationwide in Tunisia, and sparked the mass protests that toppled President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
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Osomo would have enjoyed this
1dizzledog 3 months ago
I hope this sets the new standard of the middle east.
All they really need is some good head, a blunt, and some good football to watch,
AHhahaa jk I am not that much of a dick and I am not tryig to enstill my values on others. Just stop killing other people. Not talking ablut Egypt so dont come down on me. Afghanistan and Pakistan.
fabjonjon 5 months ago
Young people demonstrating in the streets of many Arab countries have used Facebook to help organize and promote the uprising in the Arab world that has been responsible for the downfall of long time Arab leaders. This is only the beginning of how Facebook and other electronic technology will be used in the future to accomplish the plans of the radical elements of the Middle East, plan that have an interesting connection to Bible prophecy.
stealthblack6 9 months ago
The new face of the Middle East.
Bout time.
LordKaisen 9 months ago
we learned about this in my gr 6 class today, i almost cryed!
SuperAmazingPear 10 months ago
@PATCHESxxSKA I wished everyone in the world would understand your great comment right there
ReplayKCF 11 months ago
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maharadsha 11 months ago
now thats a BBQ
sumbuck188 1 year ago
@PATCHESxxSKA only a minority of muslim bastards are ignorant and barbaric! i hate them
MrAarondoherty 1 year ago
@darklink1017 hahhahahaha nice
issareign 1 year ago