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    women practiced a form of self-immolation called Jauhar to avoid being raped by invading armies.[citation needed] Self-immolators frequently use accelerants...
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    to his self-immolation, he had protested with signs and gave an interview critical of the U.S. government. On the day that he self-immolated, Azzarello...
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  • and was declared dead in the evening. Bushnell's act was the second self-immolation protesting United States support for Israel in the Israel–Hamas war...
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    the list. 2011 Algerian self-immolations Self-immolation protests by Tibetans in China Jackson, William J. "Self-Immolation in Hindu, Buddhist and Other...
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  • United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. The fatal self-immolation, which took place on Earth Day, was characterized by Bruce's friends...
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    has praised the courage of those who had engaged in self-immolation and blamed the self-immolations on "cultural genocide" by the Chinese. Four months...
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    sometimes spelled Jowhar or Juhar, was a Hindu Rajput practice of mass self-immolation by females, both adults and children, in the Indian subcontinent to...
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  • The Phuntsog self-immolation incident (Chinese: 彭措自焚事件) occurred when a Tibetan Buddhist monk by the name of Rigzin Phuntsog self-immolated on March 16...
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  • The Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident took place in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, on the eve of Chinese New Year on 23 January 2001. There...
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    11 June 1963) was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who died by self-immolation at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Quảng Đức was protesting...
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  • Look up immolate or immolation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Immolation may refer to: Death by burning Self-immolation, the act of burning oneself...
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    Revolution and the wider Arab Spring against autocratic regimes. His self-immolation was in response to the confiscation of his wares and the harassment...
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  • act of self-immolation at Revelle Plaza on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. Winne's act was inspired by the self-immolation of Buddhist...
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    her consort. The most prominent legend associated with Sati is her self-immolation to protest against her father. The first text to mention Daksha Yajna...
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    Jan Palach (category Self-immolations in protest of the Eastern Bloc)
    history and political economics at Charles University in Prague. His self-immolation was a political protest against the end of the Prague Spring resulting...
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  • Ryszard Siwiec (category Self-immolations in protest of the Eastern Bloc)
    known self-immolation of Jan Palach in Prague four months later. Siwiec was the first person from Central and Eastern Europe to self-immolate in protest...
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  • The Yihuang self-immolation incident (宜黄自焚事件) occurred on 10 September 2010 in Yihuang County, Fuzhou, Jiangxi, China. Government authorities with demolition...
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  • than Congress and BJP. Rajiv Goswami was the first student to attempt self-immolation while a student at Deshbandhu College, Delhi University in October...
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  • Self Immolation is a record label and publishing company run by J. G. Thirlwell. Originally an actual label for Thirlwell's self-released early Foetus...
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  • Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation in Tunisia began to have a clear impact on the Tunisian government, a wave of self-immolations swept Algeria. These...
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  • David Buckel (category Suicides by self-immolation in the United States)
    environmental activist, focusing on composting. He died on April 14, 2018, by self-immolation as a protest against the use of fossil fuels. David Buckel was born...
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    Self-Immolation in China – A Historical Perspective, Revue des Études Tibétaines, no. 25, pages 203–212, Quote: "Of all the forms of self-immolation,...
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    and include the 1959 uprising, the 2008 uprising, and the subsequent self-immolation protests. Over the years the Tibetan government in exile, the Central...
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  • dancer and DJ, gunshot Mohamed Bouazizi (2011), Tunisian street vendor, self-immolation Boudica (61 AD), Queen of the Iceni, poison Georges Ernest Boulanger...
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    intersection in protest against Diệm's policies. In response to Buddhist self-immolation as a form of protest, Madame Nhu—the de facto First Lady of South Vietnam...
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    Irina Slavina (journalist) (category Suicides by self-immolation)
    editor-in-chief of the Koza Press. On 2 October 2020, she died through self-immolation in front of the building of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of...
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  • at China's behest. Directed by Kiwi Chow, Self-immolator alludes to the common practice of self-immolation in mainland China as a form of protest, particularly...
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    and that the self-immolation "was staged by the government." Washington Post journalist Phillip Pan wrote that the two self-immolators who died were...
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    interrupted and had to report live on the self-immolation of Maxwell Azzarello. She proceeded to rapidly narrate the immolation live for two minutes as it happened...
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    goddess who immolated herself on the funeral pyre in response to her father's insults to her husband, as does the practice of a wife's self-immolation following...
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