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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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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
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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