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Mental illness or are these all political statements and martyrdom attacks?
You might be a psy-op terrorist if you try to set yourself on fire. Most high profile suicides are some kind of anti war or anti government protest. Case of Malachi Ritscher with suicide note against war has been obsessively concerned with his sanity. The AP article on his death includes this conclusion, “Mental health experts say virtually no suicides occur without some kind of a diagnosable mental illness.”
Persian gulf war
In 1991 during the war in the Persian Gulf, three Americans committed self-immolation in protest, one in Amherst, Mass., and two in Northern California. Eight people in the country also chose such a death as a way of protesting the Vietnam War during the 1960's and 1970's.
three ... two other incidents involving self-immolation in protest of the gulf conflict occurred in Northern California.
Vietnam war
At least eight Americans burned themselves to death in the Vietnam War-era protests.
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List of political self-immolations - Wikipedia
This is a list of notable self-immolations done for political reasons.
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May 29, 2019 Asian Indian man Arnav Gupta dies after lighting himself on fire near White House By ELIZABETH THOMAS Thursday, May 30, 2019 man who set himself on fire Wednesday afternoon near the White House has died, according to the National Park Service., identified as Arnav Gupta [Indian Asian]... died of his injuries later that evening. alert Wednesday that Gupta, 33, was missing and that they were concerned about his "physical and emotional welfare." He had last been seen at his home that morning at about 9:20 a.m. man had "life-threatening injuries." It also said one uniformed U.S. Secret Service officer was transported because of smoke inhalation. set himself on fire at approximately 12:25 p.m.
5/15/2018 Asylum seeker attempts self-immolation at Raisio Finland police station YLE News · Police prevented a man from setting himself on fire at a police station in Raisio, south-western Finland on Tuesday morning. man, an asylum seeker, demanded that police provide him with immediate service. When he was told that his request was not something that could be immediately dealt with, he became agitated. ... once in the entrance hall of the station he doused himself with fluid from a canister he was carrying in a backpack
April 6, 2018 Four police officers burned saving man who set himself on fire at Utah ... fox4kc.com Apr 6, 2018 - Police responded to the gas station at in Kaysville on Thursday around 2 ... at which point the man ignited the gasoline with the lighter—injuring ... Four Kaysville police officers injured trying to douse a man who set fire ... https://www.sltrib.com Apr 5, 2018 - But the man ignited the lighter, and with it himself and the four ... police officers trying to help a man who set fire to himself at a gas station. Info.
| January 15, 2018 | Dmitry Rudov | 39 |  Russia | Corruption of government | After being sacked from Gazprom's subsidiary and unsuccessfully appealing to President Putin, he set himself on fire in front of Ishimbay's City Hall in Bashkortostan. Died in hospital the next day.[187] |
Year 2015
Sunday, September 27, 2015 1 killed suspect suicide Burned Body at Le Moyne College in Syracuse NY Ruled Apparent Suicide Police determined that the burned body of a woman in her 50s at Le Moyne College was the result of an apparent suicide as she was seen on video buying bought fuel, a lighter and a gas can from gas station before apparently setting herself on fire. The woman was known to have a history of depression and mental illness, and lived near the campus, but had no connection to the college. It was homecoming weekend at Le Moyne which is a private Catholic Jesuit college in Syracuse, New York. It was similar to black man John Constantino who set himself on fire at the DC National Mall allegedly railed against America His family stated the apparent protest was the result of mental illness and 'was not a political act or statement.'
Year 2014
Year 2014
| June 20, 2014 | Thu Hoang | 71 |  United States | Apparent protest by a Vietnamese man of a Chinese state-owned oil rig being placed into waters contested by Vietnam in the South China Sea[168] | |
| June 23, 2014 | Charles R. Moore | 79 | United States | Social injustice[169] | Set himself alight in a strip mall parking lot, died upon arrival at hospital. |
Year 2013
China jails 3 Tibetans over a self-immolation death - Tibetan Review Oct 25, 2013 · (TibetanReview.net, Oct25, 2013) A Chinese court in Marthang (Chinese: Hongyuan) County of Sichuan’s Ngaba (Aba) Prefecture has jailed three Tibetans for
John Constantino Sets Himself On Fire on National Mall Oct 7, 2013 - Constantino's dramatic self-immolation came as Washington was on edge day after a troubled Connecticut woman was killed by cops near the ...
Desperate Chinese Villagers Turn To Self-Immolation : Parallels : …
NPR News Oct 23, 2013 · In order to turn China into an urban nation, local governments have demolished tens of millions of homes over the past decade. …
Family Of Sangay Gyatso, Tibetan Who Self-Immolated To Protest ...
The Huffington Pos Oct 23, 2013 · Police said the monks knew about the suicide plan in advance, took photos of the self-immolation and sent them overseas to incite ethnic
http://www.en.igihe.com/news/ugandan-student-dies-from-self-immolation.html
Ugandan Student Dies from Self Immolation Published on 20-10-2013 - at 14:15' by IGIHE A second year female student of Uganda Christian University – UCU has died in Namayingo district after setting herself ablaze. 24 –year-old Ruth Ajambo set herself ablaze after leaving home this afternoon to visit a neighbour.The incident happened on Sunday afternoon .
October 4, 2013 Man Sets Himself On Fire on National Mall The day after Miriam Carey gets shot after driving like she and her child are filming a terrorist movie, an African American man later identified as John Constantino, 64, of Mount Laurel sets himself afire. The African American man set himself on fire at the National Mall at 4:30 in the afternoon after dousing himself with gasoline and burst aflame squatting without a shirt. Joggers passing by took off their shirts but could not stop the flames. He was airlifted to a hospital while conscious in critical condition. He died the next day in a hospital. One witness says an accomplice filmed the entire ordeal, but that video never surfaced. According to his family, John was “a loving father and husband.” but his death was “not a political act or statement, but the result of his long battle with mental illness.” Time's Joe Klein blamed it on the "radical nihilist minority of the GOP's craven leadership.. radicals", calling Republicans a "pestilence feeding on ignorance and cynicism". Police are investigating a motive.
Year 2012
September 3, 2012 A teenager has died after self-immolating in Gaza to protest economic hardship in the Hamas terrorist-ruled region. Two Israelis died this summer after self-immolating to protest cuts in social services Israel National news
Bahraini woman dies after self-immolation | GulfNews.com gulfnews.com Jan 14, 2012 · A 59-year-old Bahraini woman died on Saturday after she set herself ablaze in the first self-immolation case in the country
Aug 8, 2012 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158716#.UmqsBPnrwe8 Woman Sets Self on Fire The tragedy is the tenth self immolation in one month since a "social protester" set himself alight. A woman aged about 70 set herself on fire in her home Wednesday and is in moderate to serious condition in Beilinson Hospital with third degree burns. The woman, a resident of Rosh Ha'Ayin in central Israel, may have taken the desperate step because of tensions with her husband and daughter.
This is the tenth case of self-immolation in Israel since Moshe Silman, who participated in the "social protest" demonstrations in Tel Aviv, set himself on fire and eventually died.
Moshe Silman dies after self-immolation at Israeli protest Israel ...
www.haaretz.com Moshe Silman, the Israeli activist who set himself on fire during a social justice protestin Tel Aviv one week ago, succumbed to his wounds on Friday at Sheba ...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158081#.Umq8cfnrwe8 Silman arrived at the "social justice" demonstration in Tel Aviv with a container of flammable liquid. During the protest, he poured it on himself and set himself on fire. Police and other protesters doused the flames, but Silman was already critically injured. Silman left behind a letter in which he accused Israeli bureaucracy of humiliating him and denying him public housing. "I did reserve duty until age 46 and lost my ability to work. I do not want to live in the street," he wrote. "The state of Israel robbed me and stole from me, and left me with nothing." Silman named Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu among the people he blamed for his situatio
Moshe Silman Death: 2nd Israeli Man Sets Himself Ablaze In Protest ...
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Jul 22, 2012 · Moshe Silman Death: 2nd Israeli Man Sets Himself Ablaze In Protest
Moshe Silman's self-immolation is a national, not just a personal ... Moshe Silman's self-immolation is a national, not just a personal, tragedy. Silman's act is a terrible reminder the social problems that prompted huge protests in ...
Moshe Silman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Silman Moshe Silman (26 November 1954 - 20 July 2012) was an Israeli activist who set himself on fire during a social justice demonstration in protest of Israel's welfare ...
Israeli Protester, Moshe Silman, Dies After Self-Immolation ...
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Jul 21, 2012 · JERUSALEM — Moshe Silman, the desperately indebted Haifa man who set himself aflame last weekend as part of a social justice protest in Tel Aviv, died ...
Moshe Silman, RIP | VICE United States
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Moshe Silman. Photograph by Dan Dennison. Moshe Silman, the Israeli man who set himself on fire at Saturday's J14 social justice protest, has died at Sheba Medical ...
Jerusalem - Hundreds In Solidarity Protest For Moshe Silman ...
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Jul 21, 2012 · Jerusalem - Solidarity protests were held throughout the country Saturday night in solidarity with the late Moshe Silman who set himself on fire last week ...
[Socialist, anti-Zionist, anti-racist]
Tony Greenstein's Blog: Moshe Silman – Murdered by Netanyahu …
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Jul 20, 2012 · Moshe Silman may not even have thought about many of these questions until poverty and desperation led him to become involved in the J14 protests last year
greenstein: An anti-Semite (Atzmon) and a leading Zionist (Avi Mayer) Join Hands
Year 2011
June 15, 2011 Thomas James Ball 58 United States Father's rights and family court injustice Self immolated on the steps of a family courthouse in New Hampshire. Died on the spot.[75]
Thomas James Ball Self-Immolated in Protest of the “Justice” System ... freekeene Jun 16, 2011 - -Thomas James Ball in his “last statement” before he self-immolated in .... Their system should be destroyed, not by fire, but by its own weight as ... Arrests are mandatory for the police in New Hampshire for domestic violence. Divorced dad leaves clues to his desperation - The Boston Globe
Jul 10, 2011 - KEENE, N.H. - On a mid-June afternoon, an unemployed history buff from ... Thomas Ballwrote to a friend shortly before he set himself on fire.
Year 2010
region-wide Arab Spring uprisings began with the self-immolation of a Tunisian produce vendor who similarly set himself ablaze in despair over economic difficulties, igniting what the country dubbed the "Jasmine Revolution."
Tarek al-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi (29 March 1984 – 4 January 2011) was a Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on 17 December 2010
2009
San Francisco artist's painful death shines light on rare form of suicide ... Mercury News Oct 9, 2009 - SAN FRANCISCO — The recent suicide of a young San Francisco art ... Jungenberg, 19, set himself on fire at a gas station in the Sunset ...
Year 2006
Iraq war protest Self-Immolation as Anti-War Protest - Counterpunch November 3, 2006, on an off-ramp during rush hour in Chicago, Malachi Ritscher immolated himself. News reports have made much of the fact that his death had no immediate impact, since he was not identified for many days, and because the national news did not pick it up for several weeks. He is characterized as a troubled man These are the words he left behind in his suicide note: “Here is the statement I want to make: if I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world. I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians, who did nothing to threaten our country… If one death can atone for anything, in any small way, to say to the world: I apologize for what we have done to you, I am ashamed for the mayhem and turmoil caused by my country.” Malachi Ritscher - Wikipedia Malachi Ritscher was a musician, recording engineer, human rights activist, and anti-war protester. He gained fame through his self-immolation, an act of protest ...Suicide Ritscher's self-immolation took place on the side of the Kennedy Expressway near downtown Chicago during the morning rush hour of Friday November 3, 2006. In a suicide letter published on his website, he described at length his political convictions as to the Iraq War and his choice to take his own life, writing, "if I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world."[2] The GuardianNov 28, 2006 - The quiet death of Malachi Ritscher ... His self-immolation on Chicago's Kennedy expressway was intended as a high-profile anti-war protest ... (11/30/2006) The Immolation of Malachi Ritscher - Albion Monitor Nov 30, 2006 - (PNS) -- Sixteen years at ago at the start of the Gulf War, a young man set himself on fire here in San Francisco. Next to his charred remains, the ...Next to his charred remains, the police found of copy of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and a few anti-war pamphlets. few months after a young student of University of Amherst, Massachusetts, followed suit. He poured flammable liquid on himself in the middle of the town square, lit a match, then another, and turned into a ball of fire. It was reported that he died screaming even as he refused help. He left behind a cardboard peace sign with his driver's license taped to the back and, curiously, a small white Buddha. as the Iraq war raged on, another person set himself on fire in Chicago, again drawing little media attention. In his suicide note, Malachi Ritscher, a man in his early 50s, wrote that his fellow Americans had become "more concerned with sports on television and ring-tones on cell phones than the future of the world." He set himself on fire on Chicago's Kennedy expressway
Year 2005
two other Israelis also died through this method of protest in past years, including one elderly woman. Both self-immolated to express their grief over the 2005 Disengagement from Gaza,
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157889#.Umq51fnrwe8
Self-Immolator Reminds Nationalists of 2 Forgotten Cases
As press promotes story of man who set himself ablaze, nationalists remember two similar tragic protests in 2005 that were ignored.
owever, have been remembering Yelena Businova and Baruch Ben Menachem, and commenting on the way media coverage of Silman's tragedy differs from its coverage of those two cases, and shows the media's bias.
"No one remembers the only person who died during the execution of the Disengagement Plan," writes Emily Amrusi in Monday's edition of Yisrael Hayom. "An olah from Russia, 54, living on her own with no family in Israel, she left her caravan in Kedumim on August 17, 2005, two days after the forcible eviction of the residents of the Katif Bloc began.
"She planned to reach the Bloc but was stopped at a police roadblock near Netivot, and there she set herself on fire to protest the way the government was ignoring the opposition to the Disengagement
a week after Yelena Businova died, Baruch Ben Menachem, a single 32-year-old immigrant from the United States, set himself on fire in Jerusalem to protest the Expulsion from Gush Katif. He died of his wounds in Hadassah Ein Karem a few days later.
Year 2004
FBI Yemen Muslim Informant Self Immolation at White House 2004 Nov 15, 2004 - FBI informant Mohamed Alanssi who was a witness in a terrorism ...Mohamed Alanssi, 52, arrived at the White House gate just before 2pm Monday with a letter addressed to President George W. Bush. After talking briefly with uniformed Secret Service officers, he pulled a lighter from his pocket and set his clothing ablaze. Yemeni man who set himself on fire in front of the White House on Monday and survived was the main informer for federal prosecutors in a terrorism financing case in Brooklyn, lawyers involved in the case said yesterday. prominent Yemeni cleric used mosques in Brooklyn and elsewhere to raise millions of dollars for Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
1970
May of 1970, George Winne, Jr., burned himself in protest of the Vietnam War on the University of California campus in San Diego. counterpunch
1966
Thich Nu Thanh Quang, in Hue, 1966. Each death galvanized opinion and resistance to the war within Vietnam counterpunch
September 3, 2012 A teenager has died after self-immolating in Gaza to protest economic hardship in the Hamas terrorist-ruled region. Two Israelis died this summer after self-immolating to protest cuts in social services Israel National news
Bahraini woman dies after self-immolation | GulfNews.com gulfnews.com Jan 14, 2012 · A 59-year-old Bahraini woman died on Saturday after she set herself ablaze in the first self-immolation case in the country
Aug 8, 2012 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158716#.UmqsBPnrwe8 Woman Sets Self on Fire The tragedy is the tenth self immolation in one month since a "social protester" set himself alight. A woman aged about 70 set herself on fire in her home Wednesday and is in moderate to serious condition in Beilinson Hospital with third degree burns. The woman, a resident of Rosh Ha'Ayin in central Israel, may have taken the desperate step because of tensions with her husband and daughter.
This is the tenth case of self-immolation in Israel since Moshe Silman, who participated in the "social protest" demonstrations in Tel Aviv, set himself on fire and eventually died.
Moshe Silman dies after self-immolation at Israeli protest Israel ...
www.haaretz.com Moshe Silman, the Israeli activist who set himself on fire during a social justice protestin Tel Aviv one week ago, succumbed to his wounds on Friday at Sheba ...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158081#.Umq8cfnrwe8 Silman arrived at the "social justice" demonstration in Tel Aviv with a container of flammable liquid. During the protest, he poured it on himself and set himself on fire. Police and other protesters doused the flames, but Silman was already critically injured. Silman left behind a letter in which he accused Israeli bureaucracy of humiliating him and denying him public housing. "I did reserve duty until age 46 and lost my ability to work. I do not want to live in the street," he wrote. "The state of Israel robbed me and stole from me, and left me with nothing." Silman named Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu among the people he blamed for his situatio
Moshe Silman Death: 2nd Israeli Man Sets Himself Ablaze In Protest ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/22/moshe-silman-israel-self...
Jul 22, 2012 · Moshe Silman Death: 2nd Israeli Man Sets Himself Ablaze In Protest
Moshe Silman's self-immolation is a national, not just a personal ... Moshe Silman's self-immolation is a national, not just a personal, tragedy. Silman's act is a terrible reminder the social problems that prompted huge protests in ...
Moshe Silman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Silman Moshe Silman (26 November 1954 - 20 July 2012) was an Israeli activist who set himself on fire during a social justice demonstration in protest of Israel's welfare ...
Israeli Protester, Moshe Silman, Dies After Self-Immolation ...
nytimes.com/2012/.../israeli-protester-moshe-silman-dies-after-self...
Jul 21, 2012 · JERUSALEM — Moshe Silman, the desperately indebted Haifa man who set himself aflame last weekend as part of a social justice protest in Tel Aviv, died ...
Moshe Silman, RIP | VICE United States
www.vice.com/read/moshe-silman-rip-israel-j14-protest-self...
Moshe Silman. Photograph by Dan Dennison. Moshe Silman, the Israeli man who set himself on fire at Saturday's J14 social justice protest, has died at Sheba Medical ...
Jerusalem - Hundreds In Solidarity Protest For Moshe Silman ...
www.vosizneias.com/...hundreds-in-solidarity-protests-for-moshe-silman
Jul 21, 2012 · Jerusalem - Solidarity protests were held throughout the country Saturday night in solidarity with the late Moshe Silman who set himself on fire last week ...
[Socialist, anti-Zionist, anti-racist]
Tony Greenstein's Blog: Moshe Silman – Murdered by Netanyahu …
azvsas.blogspot.com/2012/07/moshe-silman-murdered-by-netanyahu-and...
Jul 20, 2012 · Moshe Silman may not even have thought about many of these questions until poverty and desperation led him to become involved in the J14 protests last year
greenstein: An anti-Semite (Atzmon) and a leading Zionist (Avi Mayer) Join Hands
Year 2011
June 15, 2011 Thomas James Ball 58
United States Father's rights and family court injustice Self immolated on the steps of a family courthouse in New Hampshire. Died on the spot.[75]Thomas James Ball Self-Immolated in Protest of the “Justice” System ... freekeene Jun 16, 2011 - -Thomas James Ball in his “last statement” before he self-immolated in .... Their system should be destroyed, not by fire, but by its own weight as ... Arrests are mandatory for the police in New Hampshire for domestic violence. Divorced dad leaves clues to his desperation - The Boston Globe
Jul 10, 2011 - KEENE, N.H. - On a mid-June afternoon, an unemployed history buff from ... Thomas Ballwrote to a friend shortly before he set himself on fire.
Year 2010
region-wide Arab Spring uprisings began with the self-immolation of a Tunisian produce vendor who similarly set himself ablaze in despair over economic difficulties, igniting what the country dubbed the "Jasmine Revolution."
Tarek al-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi (29 March 1984 – 4 January 2011) was a Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on 17 December 2010
2009
San Francisco artist's painful death shines light on rare form of suicide ... Mercury News Oct 9, 2009 - SAN FRANCISCO — The recent suicide of a young San Francisco art ... Jungenberg, 19, set himself on fire at a gas station in the Sunset ...
Year 2006
Iraq war protest Self-Immolation as Anti-War Protest - Counterpunch November 3, 2006, on an off-ramp during rush hour in Chicago, Malachi Ritscher immolated himself. News reports have made much of the fact that his death had no immediate impact, since he was not identified for many days, and because the national news did not pick it up for several weeks. He is characterized as a troubled man These are the words he left behind in his suicide note: “Here is the statement I want to make: if I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world. I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians, who did nothing to threaten our country… If one death can atone for anything, in any small way, to say to the world: I apologize for what we have done to you, I am ashamed for the mayhem and turmoil caused by my country.” Malachi Ritscher - Wikipedia Malachi Ritscher was a musician, recording engineer, human rights activist, and anti-war protester. He gained fame through his self-immolation, an act of protest ...Suicide Ritscher's self-immolation took place on the side of the Kennedy Expressway near downtown Chicago during the morning rush hour of Friday November 3, 2006. In a suicide letter published on his website, he described at length his political convictions as to the Iraq War and his choice to take his own life, writing, "if I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world."[2] The GuardianNov 28, 2006 - The quiet death of Malachi Ritscher ... His self-immolation on Chicago's Kennedy expressway was intended as a high-profile anti-war protest ... (11/30/2006) The Immolation of Malachi Ritscher - Albion Monitor Nov 30, 2006 - (PNS) -- Sixteen years at ago at the start of the Gulf War, a young man set himself on fire here in San Francisco. Next to his charred remains, the ...Next to his charred remains, the police found of copy of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and a few anti-war pamphlets. few months after a young student of University of Amherst, Massachusetts, followed suit. He poured flammable liquid on himself in the middle of the town square, lit a match, then another, and turned into a ball of fire. It was reported that he died screaming even as he refused help. He left behind a cardboard peace sign with his driver's license taped to the back and, curiously, a small white Buddha. as the Iraq war raged on, another person set himself on fire in Chicago, again drawing little media attention. In his suicide note, Malachi Ritscher, a man in his early 50s, wrote that his fellow Americans had become "more concerned with sports on television and ring-tones on cell phones than the future of the world." He set himself on fire on Chicago's Kennedy expressway
two other Israelis also died through this method of protest in past years, including one elderly woman. Both self-immolated to express their grief over the 2005 Disengagement from Gaza,
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157889#.Umq51fnrwe8
Self-Immolator Reminds Nationalists of 2 Forgotten Cases
As press promotes story of man who set himself ablaze, nationalists remember two similar tragic protests in 2005 that were ignored.
owever, have been remembering Yelena Businova and Baruch Ben Menachem, and commenting on the way media coverage of Silman's tragedy differs from its coverage of those two cases, and shows the media's bias.
"No one remembers the only person who died during the execution of the Disengagement Plan," writes Emily Amrusi in Monday's edition of Yisrael Hayom. "An olah from Russia, 54, living on her own with no family in Israel, she left her caravan in Kedumim on August 17, 2005, two days after the forcible eviction of the residents of the Katif Bloc began.
"She planned to reach the Bloc but was stopped at a police roadblock near Netivot, and there she set herself on fire to protest the way the government was ignoring the opposition to the Disengagement
a week after Yelena Businova died, Baruch Ben Menachem, a single 32-year-old immigrant from the United States, set himself on fire in Jerusalem to protest the Expulsion from Gush Katif. He died of his wounds in Hadassah Ein Karem a few days later.
Year 2004
FBI Yemen Muslim Informant Self Immolation at White House 2004 Nov 15, 2004 - FBI informant Mohamed Alanssi who was a witness in a terrorism ...Mohamed Alanssi, 52, arrived at the White House gate just before 2pm Monday with a letter addressed to President George W. Bush. After talking briefly with uniformed Secret Service officers, he pulled a lighter from his pocket and set his clothing ablaze. Yemeni man who set himself on fire in front of the White House on Monday and survived was the main informer for federal prosecutors in a terrorism financing case in Brooklyn, lawyers involved in the case said yesterday. prominent Yemeni cleric used mosques in Brooklyn and elsewhere to raise millions of dollars for Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
1996
Oct 22, 1996 Woman's Life of Protesting Ends in a Suicide of Flames - The New York Times Oct 24, 1996 - ..Kathleen Chang was an eccentric to some and a valiant voice for social justice to others, but she was hard to ignore: in the summer, she wore a bikini to her protests, in the winter, leotards . why she chose self-immolation: like Ms. Chang's politics, her suicide ... Tuesday, feeling that her cause for social ''transformation'' was not getting through, Ms. Chang, 46, held her final protest. At 11:20 A.M., as students walked across campus or sat on the green, she stood before a sculpture of a peace sign, poured a bucket of gasoline over her thin frame and set herself afire. She was pronounced dead shortly afterward. developed her beliefs in San Francisco, when she was married to Frank Chang, a political activist at San Francisco State University. After they divorced, she moved to Philadelphia and continued her demonstrations, focusing on specific issues like opposing American intervention abroad, the legalization of drugs and Government corruption. October 22, 1996 Kathy Change 46 United States For directly democratic community-based self-government
Oct 22, 1996 Woman's Life of Protesting Ends in a Suicide of Flames - The New York Times Oct 24, 1996 - ..Kathleen Chang was an eccentric to some and a valiant voice for social justice to others, but she was hard to ignore: in the summer, she wore a bikini to her protests, in the winter, leotards . why she chose self-immolation: like Ms. Chang's politics, her suicide ... Tuesday, feeling that her cause for social ''transformation'' was not getting through, Ms. Chang, 46, held her final protest. At 11:20 A.M., as students walked across campus or sat on the green, she stood before a sculpture of a peace sign, poured a bucket of gasoline over her thin frame and set herself afire. She was pronounced dead shortly afterward. developed her beliefs in San Francisco, when she was married to Frank Chang, a political activist at San Francisco State University. After they divorced, she moved to Philadelphia and continued her demonstrations, focusing on specific issues like opposing American intervention abroad, the legalization of drugs and Government corruption. October 22, 1996 Kathy Change 46 United States For directly democratic community-based self-government
1991
Feb 18, 1991 Protester killed in immolation was part-time school teacher - UPI.com - A peace demonstrator who immolated himself in an apparent protest against the Persian Gulf war was a 30-year-old, part-time schoolteacher ... with no known connection to the anti-war movement, police said Tuesday. Gregory D. Levey of Amherst, the son of a Boston Globe columnist, was identified by state police following an autopsy of the charred body by a state pathologist earlier in the day.
Amherst Journal; Candles in the Snow Honor Suffering - The New York Times Feb 20, 1991 - The public self-immolation of 30-year-old Gregory D. Levey, third American known to have burned himself to death in apparent protest of United States policy in the Persian Gulf, man carrying a cardboard peace sign strode to the center of the town common on Monday afternoon, doused himself with paint thinner and perished in a plume of fire seconds after striking a match. in a university town that has been a focal point for antiwar activities and other protests, it generated instant martyrdom. events began shortly after 1:50 P.M. on Monday, when Mr. Levey, several witnesses said, quietly walked to the center of the common and began stuffing his shirt and pants with newspapers. dousing himself with the thinner, which the police said he had bought shortly before at a nearby hardware store, he lighted one match that went out, then a second that quickly ignited the thinner. He raised his arms once, then fell into the fetal position. "It was just a lot of billowing black smoke, reminded some of a Life magazine photograph of a Vietnamese Buddhist monk burning himself in protest during the Vietnam War. Editorials & Opinion | Why Did He DOT It? Because Of The War, The Seattle Times Feb 21, 1991 - He set himself on fire in the center of Amherst, my little college town in western .... The rest of us remain, for now, to ponder the self-immolation of what was perhaps a ... The fire victim was identified as Gregory D. Levey, 30. A Fiery Death Leaves College Town Stunned But Confused - AP News The only clue Levey left as to his intentions was his Massachusetts driver’s license taped to a cardboard sign on which was written ″Peace.″
Amherst Journal; Candles in the Snow Honor Suffering - The New York Times Feb 20, 1991 - The public self-immolation of 30-year-old Gregory D. Levey, third American known to have burned himself to death in apparent protest of United States policy in the Persian Gulf, man carrying a cardboard peace sign strode to the center of the town common on Monday afternoon, doused himself with paint thinner and perished in a plume of fire seconds after striking a match. in a university town that has been a focal point for antiwar activities and other protests, it generated instant martyrdom. events began shortly after 1:50 P.M. on Monday, when Mr. Levey, several witnesses said, quietly walked to the center of the common and began stuffing his shirt and pants with newspapers. dousing himself with the thinner, which the police said he had bought shortly before at a nearby hardware store, he lighted one match that went out, then a second that quickly ignited the thinner. He raised his arms once, then fell into the fetal position. "It was just a lot of billowing black smoke, reminded some of a Life magazine photograph of a Vietnamese Buddhist monk burning himself in protest during the Vietnam War. Editorials & Opinion | Why Did He DOT It? Because Of The War, The Seattle Times Feb 21, 1991 - He set himself on fire in the center of Amherst, my little college town in western .... The rest of us remain, for now, to ponder the self-immolation of what was perhaps a ... The fire victim was identified as Gregory D. Levey, 30. A Fiery Death Leaves College Town Stunned But Confused - AP News The only clue Levey left as to his intentions was his Massachusetts driver’s license taped to a cardboard sign on which was written ″Peace.″
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May of 1970, George Winne, Jr., burned himself in protest of the Vietnam War on the University of California campus in San Diego. counterpunch
1966
Thich Nu Thanh Quang, in Hue, 1966. Each death galvanized opinion and resistance to the war within Vietnam counterpunch
1965
A week after Norman Morrison’s death, Roger LaPorte burned himself in protest in front of the United Nations in New York. counterpunch
self-immolation of three Americans - Alice Herz, Norman Morrison and Roger LaPorte in 1965. ron Young Norman Morrison - Wikipedia Norman Morrison (December 29, 1933 – November 2, 1965) was a Baltimore Quaker best known for his act of self-immolation at ... Self-Immolation as Anti-War Protest - Counterpunch November 2, 1965, Norman Morrison immolated himself within sight of Robert McNamara’s window at the Pentagon, to protest the war in Vietnam..Vietnamese canonized
Norman Morrison. Streets were named after him, a postage stamp was printed with his image .
Man Set Himself On Fire In Front the U.S Capitol - Like Norman ...
PowerRossiya YouTube - Oct 7, 2013
Norman Morrison Audiopedia YouTube - Nov 19, 2015 1:14
On November 2, 1965 American Quaker Norman Morrison drives to the Pentagon with his infant daughter, a jug of kerosene, and a box of matches. With Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara looking on, the young Quaker carries out a final act of witness against the horrors of the Vietnam Way. Thirty-six years later, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, his daughter returns to confront the aging McNamara, the memory of her father, and the costly legacy of sacrifice. Facebook - Nov 10, 2017
Norman Morrison - Vietnam War ProtestsOn November 2, 1965 American Quaker Norman Morrison drives to the Pentagon with his infant daughter, a jug of kerosene, and a box of matches. With Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara looking on, the young Quaker carries out a final act of witness against the horrors of the Vietnam Way. Thirty-six years later, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, his daughter returns to confront the aging McNamara, the memory of her father, and the costly legacy of sacrifice.
Norman Morrison - Vietnam War Protests
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It took place on November 2, 1965. Norman Morrison showed up to the Pentagon, infant daughter Emily Morrison in hand, and without saying a word doused ...
Norman Morrison: November 2, 1965 - A Friendly Letter
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Nov 1, 2015 - On November 2, 1965, Quaker Norman Morrison burned himself to death near Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's pentagon office, ...
March 16, 1965, Alice Herz, an 82 year old pacifist, immolated herself on a Detroit street corner. She stated in her suicide note, that she was protesting “the use of high office by our President, L.B.J., in trying to wipe out small nations.” And “ I wanted to call attention to this problem by choosing the illuminating death of a Buddhist.” counterpunch
A week after Norman Morrison’s death, Roger LaPorte burned himself in protest in front of the United Nations in New York. counterpunch
self-immolation of three Americans - Alice Herz, Norman Morrison and Roger LaPorte in 1965. ron Young Norman Morrison - Wikipedia Norman Morrison (December 29, 1933 – November 2, 1965) was a Baltimore Quaker best known for his act of self-immolation at ... Self-Immolation as Anti-War Protest - Counterpunch November 2, 1965, Norman Morrison immolated himself within sight of Robert McNamara’s window at the Pentagon, to protest the war in Vietnam..Vietnamese canonized
Norman Morrison. Streets were named after him, a postage stamp was printed with his image .
Man Set Himself On Fire In Front the U.S Capitol - Like Norman ...
PowerRossiya YouTube - Oct 7, 2013
Norman Morrison Audiopedia YouTube - Nov 19, 2015 1:14
On November 2, 1965 American Quaker Norman Morrison drives to the Pentagon with his infant daughter, a jug of kerosene, and a box of matches. With Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara looking on, the young Quaker carries out a final act of witness against the horrors of the Vietnam Way. Thirty-six years later, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, his daughter returns to confront the aging McNamara, the memory of her father, and the costly legacy of sacrifice. Facebook - Nov 10, 2017
Norman Morrison - Vietnam War ProtestsOn November 2, 1965 American Quaker Norman Morrison drives to the Pentagon with his infant daughter, a jug of kerosene, and a box of matches. With Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara looking on, the young Quaker carries out a final act of witness against the horrors of the Vietnam Way. Thirty-six years later, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, his daughter returns to confront the aging McNamara, the memory of her father, and the costly legacy of sacrifice.
Norman Morrison - Vietnam War Protests
https://vietnamwarprotests1.weebly.com/norman-morrison.html
It took place on November 2, 1965. Norman Morrison showed up to the Pentagon, infant daughter Emily Morrison in hand, and without saying a word doused ...
Norman Morrison: November 2, 1965 - A Friendly Letter
afriendlyletter.com/norman-morrison-november-2-1965/
Nov 1, 2015 - On November 2, 1965, Quaker Norman Morrison burned himself to death near Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's pentagon office, ...
an unnamed monk in Phanthiet, August, 1963;
11 June 1963Thích Quảng Đức Burning Monk Vietnam Wikipediawas a VietnameseMahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on.[2] Quảng Đức was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngô Đình Diệm. Photographs of his self-immolation were circulated widely across the world and brought attention to the policies of the Diệm government. John F. Kennedy said in reference to a photograph of Đức on fire, "No news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as that one."[3] Malcolm Browne won a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of the monk's death.[4][5]
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