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This is a list of notable people who committed suicide by setting themselves on fire for political reasons. Non-political self-immolations are not included in the list.


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Before 1900


1940s


1950s


1960s


1970s


1980s


1990s


2000s


2010s


2020s


See also

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2011 Algerian self-immolations In 2011, as the widely reported protests sparked off by 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 individual acts of protest mostly took ...
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Self-immolation protests by Tibetans in China As of May 2022, 160 monks, nuns, and ordinary people have self-immolated in Tibet since 27 February 2009, when Tapey, a young monk from Kirti Monastery, set himself on fire in the marketplace in Ngawa City, Ngawa County, Sichuan. According to ...


References

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External links


"The Self Immolators"
– a chronological list of biographies and last statements of known self immolators 1967 to 2013
self-immolations The term self-immolation broadly refers to acts of altruistic suicide, otherwise the giving up of one's body in an act of sacrifice. However, it most often refers specifically to autocremation, the act of sacrificing oneself by setting oneself o ...
Buddhist martyrs