Self-immolation articles
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Opinion: My mother set herself on fire. Why do people choose to self-immolate?
Ten years before I was born, at 4:40 on the morning of Nov. 10, 1971, my mother and another woman sat “yogi-style” on the floor of an Ann Arbor, Mich., kitchen and lit themselves on fire. They were just blocks from the University of Michigan campus, where my mother had been a student. She had just turned 20. Police tracked the smell of burning hair to find the women sitting on the floor, facing each other, screaming. “They weren’t doing anything to put the fire out,” Police Chief Walter Krasny...
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Man self-immolates near of Manhattan Courthouse where Donald Trump is on trial
A man identified by authorities as Max Azzarello, 37 years old, has self-immolated as a protest near the Lower Manhattan Courthouse, where jury selection for the criminal trial against former President and current Republican Party candidate Donald Trump is underway. ...
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Papers thrown by self-immolator had 'vast conspiracy theories' written on them: MSNBC
In the wake of a man setting himself on fire outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trump's hush money trial is taking place, witnesses speaking to the press said they saw him throw a number of multi-colored "papers" in the air before setting himself alight. MSNBC reporter Yasmin Vossoughian, who saw the incident unfold as she was broadcasting live, said she has "gotten a glimpse of some of those papers" that were found scattered around the man after police put out the fire with fire...