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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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  • 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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  • The 2001 Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident took place in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, on the eve of Chinese New Year on 23 January 2001...
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    sometimes spelled Jowhar or Juhar, was a Hindu Rajput practice of mass self-immolation by women and girls in the Indian subcontinent to avoid capture, enslavement...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Buddhist Self-Immolation in China – A Historical Perspective, Revue des Études Tibétaines, no. 25, pp. 203–212, Quote: "Of all the forms of self-immolation, auto-cremation...
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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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  • States' involvement in the Vietnam War, set himself on fire in an act of self-immolation at Revelle Plaza on the campus of the University of California, San...
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  • BJP.[citation needed] Rajiv Goswami was the first student to attempt self-immolation while a student at Deshbandhu College, Delhi University in October...
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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 in 1969 at age 20 was a political protest against the end of the Prague...
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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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  • flow. Furthermore, depending on the current, burns may also occur. Self-immolation is suicide usually by fire. This method of suicide is rare due to it...
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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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    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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  • 2 December 2024. Sara Vogel (November 13, 2024). "Two Men Attempt Self-Immolation at Virginia State Prison..." Solitary Watch. Retrieved November 19...
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  • Became the Self-Immolation Capital of the World". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-21. "Tibetan Monk Dies After Self-Immolating In Eastern...
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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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    centuries, a tradition of devotional self-immolation existed among Buddhist monks in China. One monk who immolated himself in 527 AD explained his intent...
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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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    Irina Slavina (journalist) (category Suicides by self-immolation)
    editor-in-chief of the Koza Press. On 2 October 2020, Slavina died through self-immolation in front of the building of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of...
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  • fiction narrative, addressing ozone depletion. "Self-Immolate" uses self-immolation as a metaphor for the self-destruction of the human race, with "Hell" closing...
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  • spontaneous combustion. SHC can be confused with self-immolation as a form of suicide. In the West, self-immolation accounts for 1% of suicides, while Radford...
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