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Self-Immolation Rises As Desperate Tunisians Seek Escape From Poverty

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Hosni Kalaya set fire to himself in the same weeks that Mohamed Bouazizi died from doing so in 2011 in Tunisia. He fears he inspired his half-brother's self-immolation in 2015. (NPR)
Hosni Kalaya set fire to himself in the same weeks that Mohamed Bouazizi died from doing so in 2011 in Tunisia. He fears he inspired his half-brother's self-immolation in 2015. (NPR)

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