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Social Injustice Fuels Self-Immolation Protests
Self-immolation has a long history of being used as a political tool around the world. The act is one of desperation, with incidents in Asia, Eastern Europe, North Africa and the United States. Some of these images may be disturbing.
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In this photo released by International Campaign for Tibet, armed police surround a Tibetan Buddhist monk named Tapey after he set himself ablaze in Aba, in China's southwest Sichuan province. Chinese state media confirmed that a Tibetan Buddhist monk had
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A Chinese police officer (L) talks to a man who tried to self-imolate himself after putting out the fire with a fire extinguisher, along a shopping street in Chongqing. The 41-year-old man is believed to have lost all his money in the ongoing financial cr
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Afghan woman Ghodsi, (20), who committed self-immolation and has been hospitalized since last week with 85 percent of her body covered in burns, at Herat hospital. Ghodsi was forced to marry an elder man two years ago and attempted suicide after acknowle
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Bulgarian Rosen Markov sets himself on fire in front of the Bulgarian National Television building, to protest against the broadcast of news bulletins in the Turkish language, in central Sofia, November 10, 2009. (Reuters)