Re:The Secret Surveillance Catalogue
by logfromblammo on Friday December 18, 2015 @01:10PM
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Bouazizi's fire ended up burning quite a few government officials, even outside of Tunisia.
By my count, it started six rebellions, prompted five government reforms, and Libya's Qaddafi got brutally murdered in public. Libya, Syria, and Iraq are still in a state of civil war.
So more recently than the late 80s. As recently as right frickin now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Revolution
I don't know the exact dates that are relevant here, but as recently as the late 80s people were bucking totalitarian oppression via violence.