self-immolation

• A day before the self-immolation, a thousand of monks gathered at Kirti Monastery to demand the Chinese authorities to allow them to hold the great prayer festival. —  YubaNet.com
• Rights groups said the self-immolation was a protest against religious restrictions.
• Man-boys, nubile girls, sporting hijinks, and beloved actor John Michael Higgins in a cameo; one would think with these tools the filmmakers could've invited any reaction from the viewer other than the one they achieve: self-immolation. —  Moviehole
• The incident occurred in an area where scores of women have killed themselves by self-immolation to escape abuse, forced marriages or other oppressive customs. —  The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front
• This argument is a strawman, and it's certainly easy to sit there and pick that strawman apart while you don't have to pay for tickets to watch the team's latest performance of self-immolation. —  Gorilla Crouch

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