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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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Alfredo Ormando, 39, who doused himself with petrol and set himself alight in St. Peter's Square January 13. Ormando, apparently protesting homosexual discrimination, then attempted to rush towards the basilica, but fell unconscious before reaching the en
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Police pass the area in St. Peter's Square where a Sicilian man, opposed to the Vatican's ban on homosexual relations, set himself on fire January 13. Alfredo Ormando, 39, from Palermo, doused himself with petrol and set himself alight, then attempted to
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A Tibetan Buddhist monk adjusts Tibetan flags on a car above a portrait of Tibetan activist Thupten Ngodup 29 April before taking his body away in a convoy from Lady Harding hospital. Thupten died of a heart failure after setting himself alight to protes
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Tibetan Buddhist nun Palden Choetso sits in a house. The 35-year-old Tibetan Buddhist nun burned herself to death on a public street an hour's drive away on November 3, 2011, the latest in a string of self-immolation to protest against Chinese religious c