GWDF D14a Wiki- Self-Immolations since 1960 - US, WW

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"Whoever makes extreme unviolent action impossible, makes violence, misery, mass torture..., and now, extinction of all life on earth, inevitable (Book 3: NASAs Dr. Hansen - for...everyday citizens)."  Loving, informed by John Adams, and JFK (JFK, or was it Bobby, like MLK Jr, was deeply changed, and motivated by the the Buddhist self-immolations in Vietnam).

That we may no longer have humans like MLK Jr., with enough humanity/sanity to be inspired, does not change the relative strength of such weapons, but Death Fast is the right weapon for today; and/or wave upon wave of ceaseless, until victory is won, hunger strikes, to death's door but not through, regroup, recover, restart... till we win.  By way of analogy, everything else is the equivalent of spit-balls against Iran's deep nuclear labs.  The Pentagon would break the rank of, and discharge any such mental and intellectual lunatics that suggested such spit-balls. 

But against environmental armageddon?  Against the most highly financed mercenary army in world history, the $20 to 70 trillion fossil fuel industry?  Spitballs have been the order of the day (blogging, writing (to inflame, not to empower, or to generate commensurate action); hopeless, token, time-killing legislative bull shit like the Cap and Trade treason of 2 years ago; 4 hour jailings (what a desecration of history's real unviolent actions and actors) for what, 15 or 30 years now? 

And such deluded, left-wing-nut Deniers of history of change, and personal duty, show every sign of continuing doing the same thing another 15 - 30 years (Einstein's definition of insanity; Loving's definition of Denial and Delusion, well, yes, insanity); even though it may be just 15 or 30 weeks, or months at the most, that the next 200 billion kids have left.  My God. 

No God could have mercy on our Souls for such cowardice, failure of imagination, failure of humanity, failure of Heart, failure of Loving.

And NO God can undo what we are in the last stages of finalizing - Hell on earth.

Only we can.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_self-immolations 

I don't think that self-immolation is the right weapon for use in the US, or by me.  But we don't know what the right weapon is to defeat the WWIII, Terror War, Holocaust... being visited on the next 200 billion kids, either.  And, if there is anyone sane, or honest, we know that no one, maybe literally no one, is stepping up in any way that honestly, rationally, historically, psychologically... has a prayer of stopping our mass insanity of side-line sitting, blogging, talking, watching, talking, planning, talking, writing, planning, discussing... before all opportunity to save a future is gone, if indeed time still remains - Dr. Hansen (Book 3: NASAs Dr. Hansen - for...everyday citizens) - Someone(s) have got to give us a chance of beginning - SSSSSTTTTTTOOOOOPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!

Let it be me, but not by self-immolation, I expect.  Death Fast, or Death By Force Feeding in a mental ward for decades, not self-immolation, is the correct weapon for today, to begin a real, hopeful, meaningful, commensurate, historically rational... process of 'SSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!! In time.

1960s

Date	Name	Age	Country	Protesting	Notes and references
June 11, 1963	Thich Quang Duc	66	South Vietnam	Persecution of Buddhists by Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam	Led to several other monks and nuns committing the same act before Diem was toppled
January 25, 1964	Chinnasami		India	For preservation of the Tamil language	Inspired 5 other self-immolations.[3]
March 16, 1965	Alice Herz	82	USA	Vietnam War
November 2, 1965	Norman Morrison	31	USA	Vietnam War	[4]
November 9, 1965	Roger Allen LaPorte	22	USA	Vietnam War	[5]
May 16, 1967	Nhất Chi Mai	34	South Vietnam	Vietnam War	[6]
October 15, 1967	Florence Beaumont	55	USA	Vietnam War	[7]
September 8, 1968	Ryszard Siwiec	59	Poland	Poland's participation in Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)	Died in hospital four days later.
November 5, 1968	Vasyl Makukh	40	Ukraine	Soviet rule in Ukraine	[8]
January 16, 1969	Jan Palach	20	Czechoslovakia	Communist rule in Czechoslovakia	Student. Inspired a number of self-immolations in protest of Soviet satellite states.
January 20, 1969	Sándor Bauer	17	Hungary	Communist rule in Hungary	[9]
February 25, 1969	Jan Zajíc	19	Czechoslovakia	Communist rule in Czechoslovakia	Student.
April 2, 1969	Evžen Plocek	39	Czechoslovakia	Communist rule in Czechoslovakia	Businessman.
April 9, 1969	Eliyahu Rips	20	Latvia	Communist rule in Czechoslovakia	Survived, became professor of mathematics.

1970s

Date	Name	Age	Country	Protesting	Notes and references
February 13, 1970	Marton Moyses	28	Romania	Communist rule in Romania
May 10, 1970	George Winne, Jr.	23	USA	Vietnam War	Student at the University of California, San Diego. Died the next day.[10]
September 19, 1970	Kostas Georgakis	22	Greece	Greek military junta of 1967–1974	Student at the University of Genoa
September 19, 1970	Joseba Elosegi	54	Spain	Bombing of Guernica in 1937	Survived
November 21, 1970	Jeon Tae-il	22	South Korea	For more robust labour laws and the government's opposition to reform
May 14, 1972	Romas Kalanta	19	USSR	Communist rule in Lithuania	Inspired largest post-war riots in occupied Lithuania and USSR, and 13 other self-immolations
June 6, 1972	Huguette Gaulin	28	Canada		[11]
August 10, 1976	Antanas Kalinauskas	19	USSR	Communist rule in Lithuania	In Soviet Army barracks in Gulbene, Latvia. Died next day.
August 22, 1976	Oskar Brüsewitz	46	East Germany	Communist rule in East Germany	Lutheran pastor
February 10, 1977	Alain Escoffier	27	France	Communism
November 16, 1977	Hartmut Gründler	37	West Germany	Atomic policy
January 21, 1978	Oleksa Hirnyk	65	USSR	Communist rule in Ukraine
June 23, 1978	Musa Mamut	46	USSR	Persecution of Crimean Tatars	Died after five days[12]

1980s

Date	Name	Age	Country	Protesting	Notes and references
March 21, 1981	Per-Axel Arosenius	60	Sweden	Taxes
August 10, 1982	Artin Penik	61	Turkey	ASALA attack at Esenboğa International Airport
November 2, 1983	Sebastián Acevedo		Chile	Kidnapping of his children by the Chilean police during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet	[13]
April 7, 1989	Cheng Nan-jung	41	Taiwan	For Taiwan independence	[14]
May 19, 1989	Chan I-hua		Taiwan	Blocking of funeral procession of Cheng Nan-jung	[15]
March 2, 1989	Liviu Cornel Babeş	47	Romania	Communist rule in Romania	[16] Set himself on fire on ski slope, died at hospital after 2 hours
March 2, 1989	Vytautas Vičiulis	37	USSR	Communist rule in Lithuania
March 24, 1989	Kailash Pawar		India	To draw attention to plight of Bhopal gas victims and protest public indifference	[17] Original story published in the Hindu, March 26, 1990

1990s

Date	Name	Age	Country	Protesting	Notes and references
April 26, 1990	Stanislovas Žemaitis	52	USSR	Communist rule in Lithuania	Protesting Soviet economic blockade of Lithuania. Died next day in Moscow hospital.
May 9, 1990	Rimantas Daugintis	55	USSR	Communist rule in Lithuania	Lithuanian sculptor self-immolated on Hungarian-Soviet border. Died after a few days.
September 19, 1990	Rajiv Goswami	19	India	Reservation in India	Survived, but inspired some 150 other self-immolations[18]
February 18, 1991	Gregory Levey	30	USA	First Gulf War	Amherst Common, MA. Particularly unremarked upon in press, as with other Gulf War protest self-immolations in US, even though Levey's father was married to nationally syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman[19][20]
September 21, 1991	Giorgi Abesadze	35	Republic of Georgia	Looming civil war in Georgia	Physician[21]
February 21, 1994	Homa Darabi	54	Iran	Women's rights after the Iranian Revolution	Biography Rage Against the Veil written by sister Parvin Darabi
April 25, 1995	Reinhold Elstner	75	Germany	Demonization of German soldiers after World War II
September 3, 1995	Sabine Kratze	25	Vietnam	Trial of six Buddhist monks
October 22, 1996	Kathy Change	46	USA	For directly democratic community-based self-government
January 13, 1998	Alfredo Ormando	29	Italy	Roman Catholic Church's condemnation of homosexuality
April 27, 1998	Thupten Ngodup	60	India	Political situation in Tibet	Ex-monk. In protest of police interference with unto-death hunger-strike in Delhi. Died two days later in hospital after visit by the Dalai Lama.[22][23][24]
February 16, 1999	Necla Coşkun	14	UK	Arrest of Abdullah Öcalan	Survived.[25]

2000s

Date	Name	Age	Country	Protesting	Notes and references
January 21, 2001	various	–	China	See Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident	[26]
April 2, 2001	Shahraz Kayani	48	Australia	Government refusal to grant entry to his wife and daughters	Pakistani refugee[27]
July 21, 2004	Mordehai (Hamimo) Cohen	30	Israel	Rejection of work license	Set himself on fire during a cityhall assembly[28]
August 17, 2005	Yelena Businov	54	Israel	Protest against Israel's unilateral disengagement plan	[29]
August 31, 2005	Baruch Ben Menahem	21	Israel	Protest against Israel's unilateral disengagement plan	[30]
March 28, 2006	Eleftheriya Fortulaki		Greece	Treatment of Kurds in Turkey	[31]
November 3, 2006	Malachi Ritscher	52	USA	War in Iraq	Died at the spot.[32]
June 11, 2006	Pravin Joshi	30	India	Screening of Fanaa	Died 9 days later.[33]
March 7, 2007	Uddhav Bhandari	40	UK	Asylum policy	Nepali asylum seeker[34]
April 1, 2007	Heo Se-uk	54	South Korea	South Korea – United States Free Trade Agreement	[35]
October 1, 2008	Ramiro Guillén Tapia	65	Mexico	Local government in the city of Xalapa	[36]
November 10, 2008	Rosen Markov	-	Bulgaria	Broadcasting of Turkish news on Bulgarian National Television	[37]
January 29, 2009	Kumar Muthukumar	26	India	Killing of Sri Lankan Tamils	Inspired several other self-immolations[38]
February 12, 2009	Murugathasan Varnakulasingham	26	Switzerland	Sri Lankan Government Killing of the Sri Lankan Tamils	Inspired several other self-immolations[39]
February 21, 2010	Subram Yadaiah	19	India	For re-creating the state of Telengana in present-day Andhra Pradesh	Died in hospital.[40]
February 27, 2009	Tapey	mid-20s	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Monk, Kirti Monastery, Ngaba. Shot[41] by Chinese police while on fire, and then taken away by them. Status unknown.[41]

2010s

Date	Name	Age	Country	Protesting	Notes and references
February 20, 2010	Siripur Yadaiah	19	India	Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana	Student. Later died in hospital.[42]
July 31, 2010	Eshan Reddy	20's	India	Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana	student sets himself alight as an offering for a deity pleading Statehood.[43]
December 17, 2010	Mohamed Bouazizi	26	Tunisia	Corruption in government	Inspired the 2010–2011 Tunisian protests leading to oust of President Ben Ali and "copycat" incidents in the Arab world.[44]
January 16, 2011	Venugopala Reddy	20's	India	Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana	MCA student immolated himself near his university auditorium,died on the spot.[45]
January 16, 2011	Mohsen Bouterfif	–	Algeria	Unemployment and housing	Inspired by Bouazizi's self-immolation in Tunisia.[46]
January 17, 2011	Yacoub Ould Dahoud	43	Mauritania	Political situation in Mauritania	Same as above[47]
March 16, 2011	Rigzin Phuntsog	21	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Beaten by police before they extinguished the flames. Died in hospital.[48][49][50][51]
August 15, 2011	Tsewang Norbu	29	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Monk of Nyitso monastery in Kham Tawu. In Tawu. Died soon afterwards.[48][51][52][53]
September 26, 2011	Lobsang Kunchok	18	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Set fire to self together with Lobsang Kelsang.[51][54][55]
September 26, 2011	Lobsang Kelsang	18	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Set fire to self together with Lobsang Kunchok.[51][56]
January 16, 2011	Bhavani	18	India	Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana	[57]
February 21, 2011	Mohd Mustafa	40	India	Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana	[58]
October 3, 2011	Kelsang Wangchuk	17	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Beaten and taken away by security personnel. [59]
October 7, 2011	Kayang	17	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Former monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Clasped hands with Choepel; died.[51][60]
October 7, 2011	Choepel	19	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Former monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Clasped hands with Kayang; died.[51][61] China Daily reported they were "slightly injured".[62]
October 15, 2011	Norbu Damdrul	19	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Former monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Kicked and removed from scene by authorities. Current status unknown.[51][63]
October 17, 2011	Tenzin Wangmo	20	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Nun of Mame Dechen Chokorling. In Ngaba, Amdo. Died.[51][64]
October 21, 2011	Wang	42	China	Legal inequalities in China	At Tiananmen Square, Beijing. Taken to hospital by police; evidence at scene erased immediately.[51][65]
October 25, 2011	Dawa Tsering	38	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Monk of Kardze Monastery. In Kardze, Amdo. Current status unknown.[51][66]
November 3, 2011	Palden Choetso	35	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Nun in Tawu, Kardze. Reported died by Xinhua.[51][67][68]
November 4, 2011	Sherab Tsedor	25	India	Political situation in Tibet	Layperson. Outside Chinese embassy in New Delhi. Overpowered by police and hospitalized with minor burns.[69][70][71]
November 11, 2011	Yenesew Gebre	29	Ethiopia	Corruption of dictatorship government	Inspired by Bouazizi's self-immolation in Tunisia.[72]
December 1, 2011	Tenzin Phuntsok	46[73]	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Ex-monk, Karma Monastery, Chamdo.[74][75] Died on December 6 in Chamdo Hospital in Tibet[73] Reported in China Daily, as a "farmer" who "is considered eccentric".[76]
December 7, 2011	Sondang Hutagalung	22	Indonesia	Disputed	[77]
January 6, 2012	Tennyi	Around 20	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	[78]
January 6, 2012	Tsultrim	Around 20	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	[79]
January 8, 2012	Sopa Tulku / Sonam Wangyal	42	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	[80][81]
January 14, 2012	Jamyang Losang	20s	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Former monk of Andu monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Deceased.[82]
February 3, 2012	Tsaptai Tsering, Kyarel, and unknown name	60, 30, unknown	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Three laypersons. In Serthar. Incident published in several places, but unconfirmed.[83][84]
February 8, 2012	Rigzin Dorje (Rinzin)	Around 18	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Former monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Died Feb 21 in hospital.[85]
February 9, 2012	Sonam Rabyang	30s	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Monk of Lab Monastery. In Tridu town, Yushu County, Kham. Taken to hospital; condition unclear.[86]
February 11, 2012	Tenzin Choedron	18	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Nun of Mame Dechen Chokorling. In Ngaba, Amdo. Taken away by soldiers and police, and died soon afterwards.[87][88]
February 13, 2012	Lobsang Gyatso	19	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Current status unknown.[89][90]
February 17, 2012	Damchoe Sangpo	40	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Monastic official of Bongthak monastery. In Themchen, Tsonub, Amdo. Died on the spot.[91]
February 19, 2012	Nangdrol	18	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Layperson. In Dzamthang, Amdo. Died on the spot.[92]
March 3, 2012	Tsering Kyi	19	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Girl from Tibetan middle school. In the vegetable market at Maqu County, Kanlho, Gansu. Died on the spot.[93][94]
March 4, 2012	Rinchen	32	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Occupation unknown. In Ngaba, Amdo. Died on the spot.[93]
March 5, 2012	Dorje (Dorjee)	18	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Occupation unknown. In Ngaba, Amdo. Deceased.[95]
March 10, 2012	Gapey (Gepey)	18	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Died on the spot.[96]
March 13, 2012	Jamyang Palden	30s	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Monk of Rongpo monastery. In Rebkong, Amdo. Current status unknown.[97]
March 16, 2012	Lobsang Tsultrim	20	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Monk of Kirti Monastery. In Ngaba, Amdo. Died in custody.[98]
March 17, 2012	Sonam Thargyal (Dargye, Dhargay)	44	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Farmer in Rebkong, Amdo. Died on the spot.[99][100]
March 24, 2012	L Bhoja Naik	21	India	For the creation of the state of Telangana	MBA student set himself on fire in front of his college. Died on the spot.[101]
March 26, 2012	Jamphel Yeshi	20	India	Political situation in Tibet	Layperson in Delhi. Died 2 days later in hospital.[102][103]
March 26, 2012	Rajmouli	40	India	Telangana	For separate statehood to Telangana[104][105]
March 26, 2012	BR Goud	n/a	India	Telangana	For separate statehood to Telangana[106]
March 27, 2012	Pallavi	17	India	For creation of state of Telangana	Later died in hospital.[107]
March 28, 2012	K Uppalaiah	30	India	For creation of state of Telangana	[108]
March 28, 2012	Lobsang Sherab	20	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Monk of Kirti Monastery.[109] In Ngaba, Amdo. Died on the spot.[110][111]
March 24, 2012	S Srikanth	23	India	For creation of state of Telangana	Died in the hospital.[112]
March 27, 2012	Kalakanchi Ilaiah	30	India	Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana	Scrap dealer.[113]
March 30, 2012	Tenpa Dhargyal (Darjey)	22	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Monk of Tsodun monastery. In Barkham, Amdo. Forcibly removed to hospital by Chinese security forces. Current status unknown.[114][115]
March 30, 2012	Chimey Palden (Chime)	21	Tibet	Political situation in Tibet	Monk of Tsodun monastery. In Barkham, Amdo. Forcibly removed to hospital by Chinese security forces.[115][116] Died later that day around midnight.[117]
March 30, 2012	Shyamapuri Shankar	24	India	Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana	[118]
March 30, 2012	Bandavath Suresh	25	India	Provincial Statehood demand for Telangana	suffered 50% burns.[119]
July 14, 2012	Moshe Silman	57	Israel	Social justice march in Tel Aviv	Social justice activist, suffered 90% burns.[120] Died of his wounds on July 20 in a hospital.[121]
July 15, 2012	Classified	30	Israel	social injustice protest	Protested his debts.[122]
July 16, 2012	Zion Vaknin[123]	46	Israel	social injustice protest	In the Beersheba city hall, in protest of debts.[124]
July 20, 2012	Akiva Mafi	45	Israel	social injustice protest	Akiva Mafi[125] (45) Disabled IDF veteran sets himself on fire in Yehud, on behalf of wounded veterans.[126][127] Died on Aug 1, 2012.[128] New agency established to prevent more cases.
July 18, 2012	Valentina Gerasimovna	57	Russia		A woman attempted self-immolation at the public reception center of the ruling United Russia party in Novosibirsk. She earlier addressed the party's public reception center for legal advice as an apartment buyer.[129][130] Died in the hospital.[131]
July 31, 2012	Ta Phong Tan's mother		Vietnam		Protest against 2011 crackdown on Vietnamese youth activists[132] Died in the hospital.

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