What Caused The Tunisia Riots?

I have been faced with this question from a few friends, classmates, acquaintances, who expect me to know Everything about African politics,NewsFlash... I dont...What caused Tunisia riots, were they expected..What happened? What led to the turmoil?

But this is What I hear and at least What I think, Some say They were caused by western agents, Some even claim it was arranged by the west..Herald Newspaper of Zimbabwe is even certain that it was a western plan comparing it to the Disturbances that rocked Zimbabwe in the last Decade.
Others have called it the Wikileaks Revolution,Wikileaks referred to the president and his siblings as 'The Family', likening them to a Mafia elite who ran Tunisia's economy.

The cables, published in December, also claimed that the president's wife - Leila Ben Ali - had made huge profits out of the building of an exclusive school.

The cables lifted the veil on the corruption of the country's elite. Another cable which detailed how much the first family was loathed was blocked. People have even gone further to say The president of Tunisia was one of the main reasons Assange made the wikileaks cable.

But personally I dont think the people of Tunisia didnt know about all the corruption, money laundering or so, I believe it was a matter of timing and they grew tired, it happens when a president rules for more than 3 decades, and that young unemployed man just put the spark on the oil...it was a matter of time and reason...he brought out the  deep frustration with the ruling elite and the suppression of political freedoms...not that wikileaks didnt spark it...Though I don't think anyone should be complaining that this wikileak's fault, this is the government of Tunisia's fault..Wikileaks just put the flash light on it...its not like Everybody didnt know anyway...

On Other news,Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (centre) has vowed his site's activities will continue and he is stepping up publishing for matters related to 'cablegate'

Mwaka Huu Joto....