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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.
![Police try to douse flames on a Tibetan demonstrator after he tried to self immolate himself during a protest in front of the Chinese embassy in New Delhi. Tibetan exiles on protested the deaths of several ethnic Tibetans by self immolation in Tibetan are](https://gdb.voanews.com/718E7319-F82C-4DE2-A0C7-F4267CC6A40B_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Police try to douse flames on a Tibetan demonstrator after he tried to self immolate himself during a protest in front of the Chinese embassy in New Delhi. Tibetan exiles on protested the deaths of several ethnic Tibetans by self immolation in Tibetan are
![This still image allegedly shows the self-immolation of an individual along a street in Dawu, Ganzi prefecture in Sichuan province. The dramatic video footage, could not be independently verified, purportedly captures the moment a Tibetan Buddhist nun bur](https://gdb.voanews.com/939878A5-1DA1-4AC2-BAB4-D95BBEF9F077_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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This still image allegedly shows the self-immolation of an individual along a street in Dawu, Ganzi prefecture in Sichuan province. The dramatic video footage, could not be independently verified, purportedly captures the moment a Tibetan Buddhist nun bur