List of political self-immolations

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This is a list of notable people who committed [[self-immolation|suicide by setting themselves on fire]] for political reasons. Non-political self-immolations are not included in the list. Self-immolation was a relatively common protest tactic among Buddhists in South Vietnam, anti-communists in Czechoslovakia during the mid 20th century and continues to be used by [[Tibetans]] protesting rule of Tibet by China<ref name=":9">LaFraniere, Sharon (January 9, 2012). [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/world/asia/3-monks-deaths-show-rise-of-self-immolation-among-tibetans.html "More Monks Die by Fire in Protest of Beijing"]. ''[[The New York Times]]''. Retrieved June 1, 2019.</ref> and [[Crimean Tatars]] protesting forced deportation from their land.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Uehling|first=Greta|date=June 2000|title=Squatting, Self-Immolation and the Repatriation of the Crimean Tatars|journal=Nationalities Papers|volume=28|issue=2|doi=10.1080/713687470|pages=317–341|s2cid=140736004}}</ref>

== List ==
=== Before 1900 ===
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|396||Fayu|| 45 ||[[Later Qin]] (today {{flagu|China}})||–||Earliest recorded Chinese self-immolation.{{cn|date=April 2022}}
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|577||Five unnamed Buddhist monks|| – |||[[Northern Zhou]] (today {{flagu|China}})||Persecution of Buddhism by [[Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou|Emperor Wu]]{{cn|date=April 2022}}||
|- valign="top"
|1780||[[Kuyili]] (First suicide bomber)|| – |||[[Sivaganga]] (today {{Flag|India}})||Against the [[East India Company]]||She applied ghee, self-immolated, and jumped into the armoury of the enemy, securing victory for [[Velu Nachiyar]]{{cn|date=April 2022}}
|}

=== 1940s ===
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! style="width:120px;"| Date
! style="width:120px;"| Name
! style="width:20px;" | Age
! style="width:80px;" | Country
! style="width:20%;" | Protesting || Notes and references
|- valign="top"
|{{dts|1948}}||Kuo-shun|| – |||{{flagu|China}}||[[Persecution of Buddhists#China|Persecution of Buddhists]] and destruction of sacred objects by the government of [[Mao Zedong]]||Buddhist monk from Vietnam.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Jackson|first=William J|title=Self-Immolation in Hindu, Buddhist and Other Traditions|url=https://www.academia.edu/4866752|language=en}}</ref> In the city of [[Harbin]], he sat in the lotus position on a pile of sawdust and [[soybean oil]] and self-immolated.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2012/01/03/self-immolation-and-buddhism/|title=Shadow Tibet : Jamyang Norbu » Blog Archive » SELF-IMMOLATION AND BUDDHISM|website=jamyangnorbu.com|access-date=2017-08-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=211orfsU0UYC&q=Buddhist+monk+in+China+set+himself+on+fire+in+1948%2C&pg=PA179|title=Making Sense of Suicide Missions|last=Gambetta|first=Diego|date=2006-09-21|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-929797-9|pages=179}}</ref>
|}

=== 1950s ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! style="width:120px;" | Date
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:20px;" | Age
! style="width:80px;" | Country
! style="width:20%;" | Protesting || Notes and references
|- valign="top"
|{{dts|December 8, 1959}}||Poh Kwong|| – |||{{Flag|Thailand}}||Loss of money intended to build a new hospital, was possibly swindled through government corruption||Buddhist monk from China. In the city of [[Bangkok]], he sat on a five-foot pyre and attempted to self-immolate before being stopped by police.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/155655801/|title=Thai Police Grab Monk About to Cremate Self|date=1959-12-08|work=The Morning News}}</ref>
|}

=== 1960s ===
{{Incomplete list|date=August 2017}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! style="width:120px;" | Date
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:20px;" | Age
! style="width:80px;" | Country
! style="width:20%;" | Protesting || Notes and references
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1963-06-11}} || {{sn|Thích Quảng|Đức}} || 66 || rowspan="6" | {{flag|South Vietnam}} || rowspan="6" | [[Buddhist crisis|Persecution of Buddhists]] by the government of [[Ngô Đình Diệm]] || Led to several other monks and nuns committing the same act before Diệm [[Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem|was toppled]]. The photo, photographed by [[Malcolm Browne]], became well-associated with his political protest.
|-
|{{dts|August 4, 1963}}
|{{Sn|Thích Nguyen|Huong|nolink=1}}
|20s
|Buddhist monk. Self-immolated in the town center of [[Phan Thiết]]. Government soldiers removed his body before other monks could recover it.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=http://thespeakernewsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/The-Self-Immolators.pdf|title=The Self-Immolators|last=Donaldson|first=Day Blakely|year=2013}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|August 13, 1963}}
|{{Sn|Thích|Thanh Tucd|nolink=1}}
|17
|Buddhist novice monk.<ref name=":2" />
|-
|{{dts|August 15, 1963}}
|{{Sn|Diet|Quảng|nolink=1}}
|–
|Buddhist nun. Self-immolated in the courtyard of [[Từ Đàm Pagoda]] in [[Huế]].<ref name=":2" />
|-
|{{dts|August 16, 1963}}
|{{Sn|Thích|Tieu}}
|71
|Buddhist monk. He soaked his robes in gasoline and self-immolated in the courtyard of [[Từ Đàm Pagoda]] in [[Huế]]. Before, he announced over the loudspeaker that he was going to commit suicide in demand for Buddhist rights. After his death (the third self-immolation in one week), the government declared [[martial law]], sparking more Buddhist protests.<ref name=":2" />
|-
|{{dts|October 27, 1963}}
|{{Sn|Ho|Dan Van|nolink=1}}
|35–45
|Buddhist monk. Dressed in civilian clothing, he was dropped off by a motorcyclist in front of a Roman Catholic cathedral in Saigon, where he squatted in a lotus-fashion, poured gasoline in his lap and struck a match.<ref>{{cite news|author= |title=Monk Fires Self Before Cathedral|work=The Charolette Observer|date=October 28, 1963|via=newspapers.com}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1964-01-25}} || {{Sn|Kizappazuvur|Chinnasamy}} || 27 || rowspan="7"| {{flagu|India}} || rowspan="7" | Imposition of [[Hindi]] over the [[Tamil language]] || Inspired 5 other self-immolations.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fBchTO0NS0EC&pg=PA3|title=Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India|access-date=December 20, 2014|isbn=978-0-253-35301-6|last1=Mitchell|first1=Lisa|year=2009}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|1965}}
|{{Sortname|Keeranoor|Muthu|nolink=yes}}
|21
|Hotel worker<ref name=":2" />
|-
|{{dts|January 26, 1965}}
|{{Sn|Kodambakkam|Sivalingam|nolink=1}}
|21
|[[Madras]] city government employee<ref name=":2" />
|-
|{{dts|January 27, 1965}}
|{{Sn|Virugambakkam|Aranganathan|nolink=1}}
|33
|Worked in Madras for the Telephone Department.<ref name=":2" />
|-
|{{dts|February 11, 1965}}
|{{Sortname|Ayampalayam|Veerappan|nolink=1}}
|26
|School headmaster<ref name=":2" />
|-
|{{dts|February 1965}}
|{{Sortname|Satyamangalam|Muthu|nolink=1}}
|21
|Farmer<ref name=":2" />
|-
|{{dts|March 1965}}
|{{Sortname|Mayavaram|Sarangapani|nolink=yes}}
|20
|Student<ref name=":2" />
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1965-03-16}} || {{sn|Alice|Herz}} || 82 || | {{flagu|United States}} || [[Vietnam War]] || [[Women Strike for Peace]] member. Self-immolated on a street corner in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]].<ref name=":2" />
|-
|{{dts|July 23, 1965}}
|{{Sortname|Huh|Jik}}
|62
|{{Flag|South Korea}}
|[[Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea]]
|Worked for a minor political party. Self-immolated on the steps of the [[Seoul Capitol]].<ref name=":2" />
|-
|{{dts|October 12, 1965}}
|{{Sortname|Hiroko|Hayasaki|nolink=1}}
|36
| rowspan="4" |{{flagu|United States}}
| rowspan="4" |[[Vietnam War]]
|[[Japanese Americans|Japanese American]] Buddhist. Self-immolated in [[San Diego]], [[California]].<ref name=":2" />
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1965-11-02}} || {{sn|Norman|Morrison}} || 31 ||[[Quakers|Quaker]] from [[Baltimore]].<ref name=":2" /> Committed act below [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] [[Robert McNamara]]'s [[The Pentagon|Pentagon]] office in front of his one-year-old daughter.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,834576,00.html|title=Churches: The Pacifists|magazine=Time|date=1965-11-12|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110116213620/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,834576,00.html|archive-date=2011-01-16}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1965-11-09}} || {{sn|Roger Allen|LaPorte}} || 22 ||[[Catholic Worker Movement|Catholic Worker]]. Self-immolated in front of the [[Headquarters of the United Nations]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite news|author=Buckley, Thomas|title=Man, 22, Immolates Himself In Antiwar Protest at U.N.|work=New York Times|date=November 10, 1965|via=ProQuest}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|November 9, 1965}}
|{{Sortname|Celene|Jankowski}}
|24
|Mother whose three-month-old baby girl died in October 1965. Her brother had also died in the [[Korean War]]. Self-immolated in front of her home in [[South Bend, Indiana]].<ref name=":2" /> Survived.
|-
|{{dts|May 28, 1966}}
|{{Sortname|Thích Nữ Thanh|Quảng}}
|55
| rowspan="12" |{{Flag|South Vietnam}}
| rowspan="12" |Government of [[Nguyễn Cao Kỳ]] and United States support of the regime ([[Buddhist Uprising]])
|Buddhist nun.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite magazine|date=1966-06-10|title=South Viet Nam: The Light That Failed|url=http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,942006,00.html|magazine=Time}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|May 28, 1966}}
|{{Sortname|Ho Thi|Thieu}}
|58
|Buddhist laywoman. Self-immolated in pagoda in [[Saigon]]. Thousands were present, and monks covered her body with a Buddhist flag.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />
|-
|{{dts|May 28, 1966}}
|{{Sortname|Thích|Nữ Vinh Ngoc|nolink=1}}
|19
|Buddhist nun. Self-immolated in [[Huế]].<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qfBldO8esgIC&q=THICH+NU+VINH+NGOC+self-immolated&pg=PA136|title=The Lotus Unleashed: The Buddhist Peace Movement in South Vietnam, 1964–1966|last=Topmiller|first=Robert J.|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|year=2006|isbn=0-8131-9166-1|pages=136|language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|May 29, 1966}}
|Name missing
|–
|Buddhist monk self-immolated in [[Da Lat]].<ref name=":3" />
|-
|{{dts|May 31, 1966}}
|{{Sortname|Nguyen Thi|Van|nolink=1}}
|17
|Buddhist laywoman. Self-immolated outside a pagoda in [[Huế]].<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4" />
|-
|{{dts|May 31, 1966}}
|Name missing
|–
|Buddhist<ref name=":4" />
|-
|{{dts|May 31, 1966}}
|Name missing
|–
|Buddhist<ref name=":4" />
|-
|{{dts|June 4, 1966}}
|{{Sortname|Thích Nữ Dien|Dinh|nolink=1}}
|26
|Buddhist nun. Self-immolated in the courtyard of a small pagoda in [[Da Nang]].<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4" />
|-
|{{dts|June 4, 1966}}
|{{Sortname|Thích Nữ Bao|Luan|nolink=yes}}
|24
|Buddhist nun. Self-immolated in the same location as Thích Du Dien Dinh in [[Da Nang]].<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4" />
|-
|{{dts|June 4, 1966}}
|{{Sortname|Thích Dieu Nữ|Tri|nolink=yes}}
|–
|Buddhist nun. Self-immolated in the same location as Thích Du Dien Dinh in [[Da Nang]].<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4" />
|-
|{{dts|June 4, 1966}}
|Name missing
|–
|Novice Buddhist monk. Self-immolated in [[Quảng Trị]]<ref name=":4" />
|-
|{{dts|June 17, 1966}}
|Woman; name missing
|–
|<ref name=":2" />
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1966-07-12}} || {{sn||Liangqing|Liangqing (monk)}} || 70 || {{flagu|China}}|| Destruction of the [[Famen Temple]] || Buddhist monk<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetibetpost.com/en/outlook/reviews/2789-chinese-author-hu-ping-analyses-tibet-self-immolation-actions| title=Chinese Author Hu Ping Analyses Tibet Self-Immolation Actions |date=20 August 2012 |work= The Tibet Post International |access-date=2016-11-26}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1967-05-16}} || {{sn|Nhất|Chi Mai|Nhất Chi Mai|Nhất Chi Mai}} || 34 || rowspan="3" | {{flag|South Vietnam}} || [[Vietnam War]] ||Buddhist nun<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H4QybVtXRgsC&q=Nhat+Chi+Mai+1967&pg=PA126|title=Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh|access-date=December 20, 2014|isbn=978-0-8264-1340-6|last1=King|first1=Robert Harlen|year=2001}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|October 3, 1967}}
|{{Sortname|Thích Nữ|Tri|nolink=yes}}
|–
| rowspan="2" |[[1967 South Vietnamese presidential election]]
| rowspan="2" |Buddhist nun<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=https://quangduc.com/a33080/struggling-for-peace-the-unrecognized-sacrifices-of-buddhist-women-during-the-vietnam-war|title=Struggling For Peace: The Unrecognized Sacrifices of Buddhist Women During the Vietnam War|last=Topmiller|first=Robert|date=2011-04-19|website=quangduc.com}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|October 8, 1967}}
|Woman; name missing
|–
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1967-10-15}} || {{sn|Florence|Beaumont|nolink=1}} || 55 || {{flagu|United States}}|| [[Vietnam War]] ||<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/16/newsid_2535000/2535301.stm|title=BBC ON THIS DAY – 10/16/1967: Joan Baez arrested in Vietnam protest|work=bbc.co.uk|access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|October 22, 1967}}
|{{Sortname|Thích Nữ|Hue|nolink=1}}
|–
| rowspan="2" |{{Flag|South Vietnam}}
| rowspan="2" |[[1967 South Vietnamese presidential election]]
| rowspan="2" |Buddhist nun<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":5" />
|-
|{{dts|November 1, 1967}}
|{{Sn|Thích Nữ|Thuong|nolink=1}}
|–
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1967-11-12}} || {{Interlanguage link multi|Yui Chunoshin|eo}} || 73 || {{flagu|Japan}}|| rowspan="3" | [[Vietnam War]] || [[Esperanto|Esperantist]]<ref>明日への葬列—60年代反権力闘争に斃れた10人の遺志 – 高橋和巳編集、合同出版 1970年</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2008/04/28/commentary/bushs-brutal-war-stirs-memories-of-vietnam/#.UdA74D4Y3Ww|title=Bush's brutal war stirs memories of Vietnam – The Japan Times|work=The Japan Times|date=April 28, 2008|access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref><ref>[http://www.jag.ucla.edu/marotti_ahr.114.1.pdf Japan 1968: The Performance of Violence and the Theater of Protest] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111190152/http://www.jag.ucla.edu/marotti_ahr.114.1.pdf |date=November 11, 2014 }}([[American Historical Review|AHR]])</ref>
|-
|{{dts|December 4, 1967}}
|{{Sortname|Erik|Thoen}}
|27
| rowspan="2" |{{flagu|United States}}
|[[Zen]] Buddhist. Self-immolated in [[Sunnyvale, California]].<ref name=":2" />
|-
|March 19, 1968
|[[Ronald Brazee]]
|16
|Student. Died 5 weeks later.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1968/03/20/archives/war-protester-16-sets-himself-afire.html|title=War Protester, 16, Sets Himself Afire|date=1968-03-20|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1968-09-08}} || {{sn|Ryszard|Siwiec}} || 59 || {{flag|Poland}}|| Poland's participation in [[Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia]] || Died 4 days later.{{cn|date=April 2022}}
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1968-11-05}} || {{sn|Vasyl|Makukh}} || 40 || {{flag| Soviet Union}}|| [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Soviet rule in Ukraine]] ||Self-immolated on [[Khreshchatyk]], Kiev's main street, while shouting "Colonialism out of Ukraine!" and "Long live a free Ukraine!"<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CM%5CA%5CMakukhVasyl.htm|title=Makukh, Vasyl|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Ukraine|publisher=Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1969-01-16}} || {{sn|Jan|Palach}} || 20 || {{flag|Czechoslovakia}} || [[Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia]] || Student. Inspired other self-immolations in Soviet [[satellite state]]s.{{cn|date=April 2022}}
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1969-01-20}} || {{sn|Sándor|Bauer|nolink=}} || 17 || {{flag|Hungary}} || [[People's Republic of Hungary|Communist rule in Hungary]] and [[Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia]] ||Died 3 Days later<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.totalita.cz/vysvetlivky/o_bauers.php|title=Sndor Bauer: TOTALITA|author=Tom Vlek|access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|January 20, 1969}}
|{{Sortname|Josef|Hlavatý|nolink=1}}
|25
| rowspan="3" |{{Flag|Czechoslovakia}}
| rowspan="3" |[[Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia]]
|Blue-collar worker. Self-immolated in [[Plzeň]]. Died 5 days later.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=http://www.janpalach.cz/en/default/jan-palach/nasledovnici|title=Jan Palach|website=janpalach.cz|access-date=2017-08-14}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|January 22, 1969}}
|{{Sortname|Miroslav|Malinka|nolink=1}}
|–
|Blue-collar worker. Referenced [[Jan Palach]]. Self-immolated in [[Brno]].<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":6" />
|-
|{{dts|January 26, 1969}}
|{{Sortname|Jan|Bereš|nolink=1}}
|16
|Apprentice. Referenced [[Jan Palach]]. Self-immolated in [[Cheb]].<ref name=":6" />
|-
|{{dts|February 10, 1969}}
|{{Sn|Mykola|Bereslavsky}}
|45
|{{Flag|Soviet Union}}
|[[Ukrainian SSR|Soviet rule in Ukraine]]
|<ref name=":2" />
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1969-02-25}} || {{sn|Jan|Zajíc}} || 19 || rowspan="2" | {{flag|Czechoslovakia}} || rowspan="3" | [[History of Czechoslovakia (1948–1989)|Communist rule in Czechoslovakia]] || Student{{cn|date=April 2022}}
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1969-04-02}} || {{sn|Evžen|Plocek}} || 39 || Businessman{{cn|date=April 2022}}
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1969-04-09}} || {{sn|Eliyahu|Rips}} || 20 || {{flag|Soviet Union}} || Survived. Later became professor of mathematics.{{cn|date=April 2022}}
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1969-05-30}} || {{sn|Bruce|Mayrock|nolink=1}} || 20 || {{flagu|United States}}|| [[Genocide]] against [[Biafra]] in the [[Nigerian Civil War]] || [[Columbia University]] student. Died several hours later.{{cn|date=April 2022}}
|}

=== 1970s ===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! style="width:120px;"| Date
! style="width:120px;"| Name
! style="width:20px;" | Age
! style="width:80px;" | Country
! style="width:20%;" | Protesting || Notes and references
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1970-02-13}} || {{sn|Márton|Moyses|nolink=1}} || 28 || {{flag|Socialist Republic of Romania|name=Romania}}||[[Communist Romania|Communist rule in Romania]] ||<ref name=":2" />
|-
|May 6, 1970
|Robert Rex Vice
|27
|{{flagu|United States}}
|Vietnam War and Kent State Shootings
|Non-student protester at [[Wabash College]] demonstration.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1970-05-07|title=Clipped From The Logansport Press|pages=1|work=The Logansport Press|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10247520/the-logansport-press/|access-date=2020-06-20}}</ref> Died later in hospital. [https://www.wabash.edu/alumni/docs/Class_of_1973_July_2010_Letter%20tr.pdf][https://www.wabash.edu/alumni/docs/Class_of_1973_June_2010_Letter.pdf]<br />
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1970-05-10}} || {{sn|George|Winne Jr.}} || 23 ||{{flagu|United States}} || rowspan="2" | [[Vietnam War]] || Student at the [[University of California, San Diego]]. Died the following day.<ref>{{cite news|author=Keen, H.|title=San Diego student who set self afire in war protest dies|work=Los Angeles Times|date=May 12, 1970}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|June 4, 1970}}
|{{Sortname|Thích Nữ Lien|Tap|nolink=1}}
|24
|{{Flag|South Vietnam}}
|Buddhist nun<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":5" />
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1970-09-19}} || {{sn|Kostas|Georgakis}} || 22 || {{flag|Greece}}|| [[Greek military junta of 1967–74|Military rule in Greece]] || Student at the [[University of Genoa]]{{cn|date=April 2022}}
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1970-09-19}} || {{sn|Joseba|Elosegi|nolink=1}} || 54 || {{flag|Francoist Spain|name=Spain}}||[[Bombing of Guernica]] in 1937. Independence of the [[Basque Country (greater region)|Basque Country]]. || Survived<ref name=":2" />
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1970-11-13}} || {{sn|Jeon|Tae-il}} || 22 || {{flag|South Korea}}|| Labor conditions and the [[Third Republic of South Korea|government]]'s opposition to reform ||<ref name=":2" />
|-
| rowspan="2" |{{dts|May 1971}}
|{{Sortname|Nguyen Thi|Co|nolink=1}}
|–
| rowspan="6" |{{Flag|South Vietnam}}
| rowspan="6" |[[Vietnam War]]
| rowspan="2" |Buddhist nun<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":5" />
|-
|{{Sortname|Thích Nữ Tinh|Nhuan|nolink=1}}
|–
|-
| rowspan="2" |{{dts|August 16, 1971}}
|Man; name missing
|–
|Vietnam War veteran<ref name=":2" />
|-
|{{Sortname|Nguyen Minh|Dang|nolink=1}}
|37
|Vietnam War veteran<ref name=":2" />
|-
|{{dts|October 1971}}
|{{Sortname|Thích Nữ Tinh|Cuong|nolink=1}}
|–
|Buddhist nun<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":5" />
|-
|{{dts|1972}}
|{{Sortname|Thích Nữ Dien|Han|nolink=1}}
|–
|Buddhist nun<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":5" />
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1972-05-14}} || {{sn|Romas|Kalanta}} || 19 || rowspan="2" | {{flag|Soviet Union}}|| rowspan="2" | [[Lithuanian SSR|Communist rule in Lithuania]] || Inspired largest post-war riots in occupied Lithuania and the USSR and 13 other self-immolations
|-
|{{dts|May 29, 1972}}
|{{Sortname|V.|Stonys|nolink=1}}
|24
|Self-immolated in [[Varėna]].<ref name=":2" />
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1972-06-06}} || {{sn|Huguette|Gaulin}} || 28 || {{flagu|Canada}}|| ||<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofli0000unse|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofli0000unse/page/417 417]|quote=Huguette Gaulin.|title=Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada|via=[[Internet Archive]]|publisher=University of Toronto Press|access-date=December 20, 2014|isbn=978-0-8020-0761-2|year=2002}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|1974}}
|{{Sortname|Thích Nữ Du|Dieu|nolink=1}}
|–
|{{Flag|South Vietnam}}
|[[Vietnam War]]
|Buddhist nun<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":5" />
|-
| {{dts|1976-08-10}} || {{sn|Antanas|Kalinauskas|nolink=1}} || 19 || {{flag|Soviet Union}}|| [[Lithuanian SSR|Communist rule in Lithuania]] || In [[Soviet Army]] barracks in [[Gulbene]], Latvia. Died the following day.
|-
| {{dts|1976-08-22}} || {{sn|Oskar|Brüsewitz}} || 47 || {{flag|East Germany}}|| Communist repression of religion in East Germany || Lutheran pastor<ref>{{cite news |title=East German Suicide Attempt Reflects Church Issue |publisher=The New York Times |date=August 22, 1976 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/22/archives/east-german-suicide-attempt-reflects-church-issue.html}}</ref>
|-
| {{dts|1977-02-10}} || {{sn|Alain|Escoffier|nolink=1}} || 27 || {{flagu|France}}|| Communism || Member of the [[Party of New Forces]], a [[Neo-Fascism|neo-fascist]] political party.{{cn|date=April 2022}}
|-
| {{dts|1977-11-16}} || {{sn|Hartmut|Gründler}} || 37 || {{flag|West Germany}} || Atomic policy{{cn|date=April 2022}} ||
|-
| {{dts|1978-01-21}} || {{sn|Oleksa|Hirnyk}} || 65 || {{flag|Soviet Union}}|| [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Communist rule in Ukraine]]{{cn|date=April 2022}} ||
|-
| {{dts|1978-02-08}} || Erika Ruppert || 24 || {{flag|West Germany}}|| Political protest || Ruppert and Helmut Kleinknecht wrote a letter a day before their act in which they explained the reasoning behind their decision, and their affiliation with [[Ananda Marga]]. The next morning, she and Kleinknecht doused themselves with gasoline and self-immolated at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin.<ref name="Self immolation in Germany">{{cite book|url=https://taz.de/Selbstverbrennung-in-Deutschland/!731763/|title=Self immolation in Germany|newspaper=Die Tageszeitung: Taz|date=August 2, 2003|page=1005|publisher=Taz}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.cd.anandamarga.us/1978-03%20Crimson%20Dawn%20-%20Newsletter%20Ananda%20Marga%20AMPS%20NYSector.pdf|page=3|title=1978-03 Crimson Dawn - Newsletter Ananda Marga}}</ref>
|-
| {{dts|1978-02-08}} || Helmut Kleinknecht || 28 || {{flag|West Germany}}|| Political protest || Self-immolated along with Erika Ruppert at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin.<ref name="Self immolation in Germany"/><ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.cd.anandamarga.us/1978-03%20Crimson%20Dawn%20-%20Newsletter%20Ananda%20Marga%20AMPS%20NYSector.pdf|page=3|title=1978-03 Crimson Dawn - Newsletter Ananda Marga}}</ref>
|-
| {{dts|1978-06-14}} || Elizabeth Weniger || 25 || {{flag| Philippines}}|| Political protest || Swiss-born Elizabeth Weniger self-immolated at Rizal Park in Manila after distributing leaflets explaining her reasons.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BuzdDAAAQBAJ&q=%22elizabeth+weniger%22+manila&pg=PT184|title=Who Bombed the Hilton?|page=109|publisher=NewSouth|isbn=978-1-74-223351-2|last1=Landers|first1=Rachel|year=2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.cd.anandamarga.us/1978-07%20Crimson%20Dawn%20-%20Newsletter%20Ananda%20Marga%20AMPS%20NYSector.pdf|page=8|title=1978-07 Crimson Dawn - Newsletter Ananda Marga}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/421393495/|page=56|title=The Gazette}}</ref>
|-
| {{dts|1978-06-23}} || {{sn|Musa|Mamut}} || 46 || {{flag|Soviet Union}}|| Discrimination against [[Crimean Tatars]] in the Soviet residence permit system, which prohibited nearly all Crimean Tatars who were [[Deportation of the Crimean Tatars|deported in 1944]] from returning to their place of birth || Mamut was born and raised Crimea until the NKVD deported all Crimean Tatars to Central Asia in May 1944. He returned to Crimea in 1975 and was later arrested and charged for not having a residence permit to live there, despite being born in the peninsula; the residence permit system was designed to prevent exiled Crimean Tatars from returning to their homeland. Then police came to arrest him on 23 June 1978 Mamut self-immolated rather than being deported again and died 5 days later.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/sovietdisunion00bohd|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/sovietdisunion00bohd/page/203 203]|quote=Musa Mamut.|title=Soviet Disunion|publisher=Simon and Schuster|access-date=December 20, 2014|isbn=978-0-02-922401-4|last1=Nahaylo|first1=Bohdan|last2=Swoboda|first2=Victor|year=1990}}</ref>
|-
| {{dts|1978-10-03}} || {{sn|Lynette|Phillips|nolink=1}} || 24 || {{flag|Switzerland}}|| Social protest || Lynette Phillips had previously planned to self-immolate outside the British Houses of Parliament in London, but upon receiving word of this, British authorities deported her. She changed her plan and decided to self-immolate outside the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. She protested against "inhumanity, injustice and irrationality prevalent in our society". She died at the scene.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19781004&id=vu1UAAAAIBAJ&pg=4366,774485&hl=en|title=An heiress dies|publisher=The Age}}</ref>
|}

=== 1980s ===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! style="width:120px;"| Date
! style="width:120px;"| Name
! style="width:20px;" | Age
! style="width:80px;" | Country
! style="width:20%;" | Protesting || Notes and references
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1980-03-21}} || {{sn|Walenty|Badylak}} || 76 || {{flag|Poland}}|| [[Katyn massacre]] || [[Home Army]] veteran self-immolated chained to a well in the [[Main Square, Kraków]].<ref>[[:pl:Walenty Badylak]]</ref><ref>[[:pl:Studzienka Badylaka]]</ref>
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1981-03-21}} || {{sn|Per-Axel|Arosenius}} || 60 || {{flag|Sweden}}|| Taxes{{cn|date=April 2022}} ||
|-
|May 18, 1982
|Mahmut Zengin Ferhat Kurtay
Eşref Anyık

Necmi Öner
|
|{{Flag|Turkey}}
|Detention conditions in Prison
|The four were members of the [[Kurdistan Workers' Party]] protesting the detention conditions in the [[Diyarbakır Prison|Diyarbakır prison]] after the [[1980 Turkish coup d'état|coup d'état in 1980]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ziółkowski|first=Grzegorz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oe7QDwAAQBAJ&q=ferhat+kurtay+necmi+%C3%B6ner+e%C5%9Fref+any%C4%B1k+mahmut+zengin+on+fire&pg=PT61|title=A Cruel Theatre of Self-Immolations: Contemporary Suicide Protests by Fire and Their Resonances in Culture|date=2020-02-13|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-429-60222-1|language=en}}</ref>
|-
|May 26, 1982
|[[Semra Ertan]]
|25
|{{flag|West Germany}}
|Racism towards Turkish workers in Germany
|Writer and poet.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Semra Ertan (Cana Bilir-Meier) » L'Alternativa Hall 2014|url=http://alternativa.cccb.org/2014/en/films/fichaPH.php?film=00082|website=alternativa.cccb.org|language=en|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1982-08-10}} || {{sn|Artin|Penik}} || 61 || {{flag|Turkey}}|| [[ASALA]] attack at [[Esenboğa International Airport]]{{cn|date=April 2022}} ||
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1983-11-02}} || [[Sebastián Acevedo]]|| 52|| {{flag|Chile}}|| Kidnapping of his children by the Chilean police during [[Military dictatorship of Chile (1973–1990)|the dictatorship]] of [[Augusto Pinochet]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://guanaco17.blogspot.com/2007/11/sebastin-acevedo.html|title=Tribute to Sebastián Acevedo|publisher=Guanaco17.blogspot.com|date=November 2, 2007|access-date=December 2, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131202415/http://guanaco17.blogspot.com/2007/11/sebastin-acevedo.html|archive-date=January 31, 2009|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
|-
|February 2, 1985
|[[Mehmet Karahüseyinov]]
|40
|{{flag|Bulgaria}}
|Treatment of [[Turkish people|Turks]] in Bulgaria
|Self-immolated after Bulgarian government tried to change his name. Survived heavily wounded, died 5 years later.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Siedlecka|first=Sylwia|date=2019-01-01|title=The Labyrinth of Genealogy: Poetry of Mehmet Karahüseyinov (1980-1990)|url=https://www.academia.edu/43354511|journal=Balkanistic Forum|volume=28|issue=3|pages=34–45|doi=10.37708/bf.swu.v28i3.3|s2cid=226804582|issn=2535-1265}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1989-03-02}} || {{sn|Liviu Cornel|Babeş}} || 47 || {{flag|Romania}}|| [[Communist Romania|Communist rule in Romania]] || Self-immolated on ski slope. Died 2 hours later.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/brasov/brasov-liviu_babes-comemorare-martir_brasov_0_436156407.html#commentsPage-1 |title=Povestea eroului care a protestat împotriva comunismului dându-şi foc pe pârtia Bradul |publisher=Adevarul.ro |date=March 1, 2011 |access-date=February 6, 2012}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1989-03-02}} || {{sn|Vytautas|Vičiulis}} || 37 || {{flag|Soviet Union}}|| [[Lithuanian SSR|Communist rule in Lithuania]]{{cn|date=April 2022}} ||
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1989-03-24}} || {{sn|Kailash|Pawar|nolink=1}} || || {{flagu|India}}|| To draw attention to plight of [[Bhopal disaster|Bhopal gas victims]] and protest public indifference || Original story published in ''The Hindu'', March 26, 1990.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bhopal.net/kailash-pawar|title=The Death of Kailash Pawar|date=May 5, 2010|access-date=April 8, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120410192128/http://bhopal.net/kailash-pawar/|archive-date=April 10, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1989-04-07}} || {{sn|Cheng|Nan-jung}} || 41 || rowspan="2" | {{flag|Taiwan}}|| rowspan="2" | For freedom of speech and [[Taiwan independence]] ||
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1989-05-19}} || {{sn|Chan|I-hua}} || 32 || During funeral procession of Cheng Nan-jung.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2005/new/may/15/today-o7.htm|title=Independence. Rise. Chan I-hua|work=Liberty Times|location=Taiwan (ROC)|access-date=December 2, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929141243/http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2005/new/may/15/today-o7.htm|archive-date=September 29, 2007|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
|-
|October 24, 1989
|Shavkat Yarullin
|40
| rowspan="2" |{{flag|Soviet Union}}
|In protest of exile and mistreatment of Crimean Tatars by the government
|Self-immolated in front of a government building. Died several hours later.<ref name=":7" />
|-
|December 14, 1989
|Seidamet Balji
|
|In protest of exile and mistreatment of Crimean Tatars by the government
|While being forced to leave Yalta he doused himself with gasoline and self-immolated. Survived after being extinguished, but said he would do it again if he had to live in exile for longer.<ref name=":7">{{Cite book|url=http://srpkzn.ru/books/Krimsky_Tatary.pdf|title=Крымские татары, или Привет от Сталина!|last=Yakupova|first=Venera|publisher=Часы истории|year=2009|location=Kazan|pages=28–30, 47–48}}</ref>
|}

=== 1990s ===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! style="width:120px;"| Date
! style="width:120px;"| Name
! style="width:20px;" | Age
! style="width:80px;" | Country
! style="width:20%;" | Protesting || Notes and references
|-
|March 21, 1990
|Zekiye Alkan
|
|{{flag| Turkey}}
|Ban of Newroz celebrations
|Medical student who self-immolated on [[Newroz as celebrated by Kurds|Newroz]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Stansfield|first1=Gareth R. V.|title=The Kurdish Question Revisited|last2=Shareef|first2=Mohammed|date=2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-068717-5|pages=195–196|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":8"/>
|-
| {{dts|1990-04-26}} || {{sn|Stanislovas|Žemaitis|nolink=1}} || 52 || {{flag|Soviet Union}} || [[Lithuanian SSR|Communist rule in Lithuania]] || Protesting Soviet economic blockade of Lithuania. Died the following day in Moscow hospital.{{cn|date=April 2022}}
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1990-04-29}} || {{sn|Sunghee|Park|nolink=1}} || 19 || {{flag|South Korea}} || Political situation in South Korea || Self-immolated during students' protest against the South Korean regime. Died May 19, 1991.{{cn|date=April 2022}}
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1990-05-09}} || {{sn|Rimantas|Daugintis|nolink=1}} || 55 || {{flag|Soviet Union}} || [[Lithuanian SSR|Communist rule in Lithuania]] || Lithuanian sculptor self-immolated on Hungarian–Soviet border. Died a few days later.
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1990-09-19}} || {{sn|Rajiv|Goswami}} || 19 || {{flagu|India}}||[[Reservation in India]]||Survived<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PbgW2jTESKEC&q=Rajiv+Goswami&pg=PA192 |title=Politics After Television |access-date=December 20, 2014|isbn=978-0-521-64839-4 |last1=Rajagopal |first1=Arvind |date=2001-01-25 }}</ref>
|-
| {{dts|1990-10-14}} || {{sn|Thanawut|Klingchuea|nolink=1}} || 20 || {{flag|Thailand}}||Government of [[Chatichai Choonhavan]] || [[Ramkhamhaeng University]] student<ref>{{cite web|first1=Bundit|last1=Chanthasrikum|date=December 19, 2013|script-title=th:รำลึก'ธนาวุฒิ คลิ้งเชื้อ'|url=http://www.komchadluek.net/detail/20131219/175151.html|website=Kom-Chad-Luek|access-date=17 August 2014|language=th|trans-title=Remembering 'Thanawut Klingchuea'}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1991-02-18}} || {{sn|Gregory|Levey|nolink=1}} || 30 || {{flag| United States}}|| [[Gulf War]] || Took place in Amherst Common, Massachusetts.<ref>{{Cite news| last = Verhovek| first = Sam Howe| title = Amherst Journal; Candles in the Snow Honor Suffering| work = New York Times| access-date = 2016-09-19| date = 1991-02-20| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/20/us/amherst-journal-candles-in-the-snow-honor-suffering.html}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1991-09-21}} || {{sn|Giorgi|Abesadze|nolink=1}} || 35 || {{flag| Georgia (country)|name=Georgia}}|| Looming [[Georgian Civil War|civil war in Georgia]] || Physician<ref>Russetsky, Alexander et al. (2004), [http://fes.ge/de/images/Fes_Files/05Publications/activity_report_2004.pdf South Caucasus Institute of Regional Security Activity Report], p. 50. South Caucasus Institute of Regional Security; accessed July 1, 2012.</ref>
|-
|March 21, 1992
|Rahşan Demirel
|
|{{flag|Turkey}}
|Treatment of Kurds by Turkey
|She self-immolated on [[Newroz as celebrated by Kurds|Newroz]].<ref name=":8" />
|-
| {{dts|1993-04-06}} || Binh Gia Pham || 43 || {{flag|United States}}|| Persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam || Binh Gia Pham had five friends tape his self-immolation outside Boston. Died at the scene.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1993-04-16-0000103299-story.html|title=A FINAL ACT OF SACRIFICE
|author=TOM PULEO|publisher=THE HARTFORD COURANT}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/e9d3cc2ede86ad2d645041ddd88a24ee|title=Five Charged With Manslaughter In Buddhist's Self-immolation
|author=RENU SEHGAL|publisher=AP News}}</ref>
|-
| {{dts|1993-04-29}} || {{sn|Graham|Bamford|nolink=1}} || 48 || {{flagu|United Kingdom}}|| War in Bosnia and Herzegovina || 'The British army must not be a guard of honour at a mass funeral. Bosnian babies, children, and womenfolk are waiting for the politicians to do what they know they should – give them military protection.'<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bosniavolimte.blogspot.com/2012/01/bosnia-twenty-years-later-graham.html|title=I LOVE BOSNIA|author=Chris Mathieu|date=January 27, 2012|publisher=bosniavolimte.blogspot.com|access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref>
|-
| {{dts|1994-02-21}} || {{sn|Homa|Darabi}} || 54 || {{flag|Iran}}|| Legal obligation under the Islamic Criminal Code (Art. 139) for women to wear the headscarf in public<ref>{{citation|first=Ellen|last=Wiles|title=Headscarves, Human Rights, and Harmonious Multicultural Society: Implications of the French Ban for Interpretations of Equality|journal=Law & Society Review|year=2007|volume=41|number=3|pages=699–736|doi=10.1111/j.1540-5893.2007.00318.x|jstor=4623399}}</ref> || Pediatrician, political activist. Died the following day
|-
|March 21, 1994
|Nilgün Yıldırım and Bedriye Taş
|
|
|Repression of Kurdish identity and traditions
|They immolated themselves on [[Newroz as celebrated by Kurds|Newroz]], an important festivity for the Kurds<ref name=":8">{{Cite web|url=https://jacobinmag.com/2019/03/newroz-kurdish-new-year-turkey-syria|title=An End to the Darkness|website=jacobinmag.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-19}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1995-04-25}} || data-sort-value="Elstner, Reinhold"|{{Interlanguage link|Reinhold Elstner|lt=|de|Reinhold Elstner|WD=}}|| 75 || {{flag|Germany}} || "Slander and demonization" of German soldiers after World War II || [[Wehrmacht]] veteran. Died in a [[Munich]] hospital 12 hours later.{{cn|date=April 2022}}
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1995-09-03}} || {{sn|Sabine|Kratze|nolink=1}} || 25 || {{flag|Vietnam}}|| Trial of six Buddhist monks{{cn|date=April 2022}} ||
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1996-10-22}} || {{sn|Kathy|Change}} || 46 || {{flagu|United States}}|| For directly democratic community-based self-government{{cn|date=April 2022}} ||
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1998-01-13}} || {{sn|Alfredo|Ormando}} || 39 || {{flagu|Italy}}|| Roman Catholic Church's condemnation of homosexuality<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-25453307 |title=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-25453307 |quote="In 1998, Alfredo Ormando died after setting himself on fire in protest at the church's condemnation of homosexuality."}}</ref>||
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1998-04-27}} || {{sn|Thupten|Ngodup|nolink=1}} || 60 || {{flagu|India}}|| [[Human rights in Tibet#Human rights in post-1950 Tibet|Political situation in Tibet]] || Ex-monk. In protest of police interference with unto-death hunger-strike in Delhi. Died 2 days later in hospital after visit by the [[14th Dalai Lama|Dalai Lama]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tibet.ca/en/newsroom/wtn/archive/old?y=1998&m=4&p=29_4|title=Biography of the late Thubten Ngodup|publisher=Tibet.ca|date=April 29, 1998|access-date=December 2, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://wrybread.com/india/page42.html|title=April 30th|publisher=WryBread.com|date=April 30, 1998|access-date=December 2, 2011}}</ref><ref>P. V. Unnikrishnan, India disasters report, towards a policy initiative, Oxford University Press, 2000; {{ISBN|0-19-565029-8}}, page 270: "Dissent as a Streak of Fire On April 27, 1998 when a 60-year-old former monk immolated himself after a prolonged hunger strike by six of his Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) colleagues in Delhi. The demand: UN intervention in Tibet."</ref>
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|1999-02-16}} || {{sn|Necla|Coşkun|nolink=1}} || 14 || {{flagu|United Kingdom}}|| Arrest of [[Abdullah Öcalan]] || Survived<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Dying Without Killing: Self-Immolations, 1963–2002|first=Michael|last=Biggs|title=Making Sense of Suicide Missions|editor=Diego Gambetta|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2005|chapter-url=http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sfos0060/immolation.pdf|isbn=978-0-19-929797-9}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=1999-06-08|title=To die for|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/jun/08/gender.uk|access-date=2021-03-23|website=[[The Guardian]]|language=en}}</ref>
|-
|February 1999
|Zülkuf Yilmaz
|
|{{flagu|Switzerland}}
|Arrest of [[Abdullah Öcalan]]
|Survived<ref>{{Citation|title=10 vor 10 - Selbstverbrennung - Play SRF|url=https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/10-vor-10/video/selbstverbrennung?urn=urn:srf:video:38485665-8fa6-4686-b047-49677bc20007|language=de|access-date=2021-03-23}}</ref>
|}

=== 2000s ===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! style="width:120px;"| Date
! style="width:120px;"| Name
! style="width:20px;" | Age
! style="width:80px;" | Country
! style="width:20%;" | Protesting || Notes and references
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|2001-01-21}} || ''various'' || – || {{flag| China}}|| See [[Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident]] ||<ref>Sunderland, Judith. (2002). ''From the Household to the Factory: China's campaign against Falungong.'' Human Rights Watch; {{ISBN|1-56432-269-6}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|2001-04-02}} || {{sn|Shahraz|Kayani|nolink=1}} || 48 || {{flagu|Australia}}|| Government refusal to grant entry to his wife and daughters || Pakistani refugee<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2001/s351588.htm|title=Immigration Department guilty of mal-administration: Ombudsman|publisher=ABC|location=Australia|date=August 23, 2001|access-date=December 2, 2009}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|2002-11-15}} || {{sn|Milos|Redzepovic|nolink=1}} || 34 || {{flagu|Germany}}|| Planned deportation of his family to Serbia || Doused himself in gasoline and self-immolated inside the town hall of [[Syke]]. Died the following day.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://taz.de/Abschiebung-eines-psychisch-Kranken/!5097269/ |title=Körper verfrachtbar, Psyche egal |first=Christian |last=Jakob |date=29 March 2012 |work=Die Tageszeitung |access-date=2019-10-31 |language=de}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|2003-03-06}} || {{sn|Zdeněk |Adamec|nolink=1}} || 19 || {{flag|Czech Republic}}|| [[Iraq War]] || Self-immolated in [[Prague]]. Died at the scene.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Koukal |first1=Milan |title=Lidé nosí květiny pro upáleného sebevraha |url=http://www.novinky.cz/clanek/3658-lide-nosi-kvetiny-pro-upaleneho-sebevraha.html |publisher=[[Novinky.cz]] |access-date=13 November 2020 |language=cs |date=March 6, 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Самосожжение в Чехии – знак протеста против войны в Ираке? | trans-title=Self-immolation in the Czech Republic. Is it a sign of protest against the war in Iraq? |url=https://www.dw.com/ru/%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5-%D0%B2-%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%B8-%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BA-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2-%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%8B-%D0%B2-%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5/a-823159 |website=dw.com |publisher=[[Deutsche Welle]] |access-date=13 November 2020 |language=ru |date=April 2, 2003}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|2003-06-23}} || {{sn|Neda|Hassani}} || 26 || {{flag| United Kingdom}}|| Raid on and arrest of members of the [[People's Mujahedin of Iran]] || Self-immolated in front of the French embassy in London. Died at the scene. There were at least 4 other self-immolations protesting the same.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/jun/25/world.iran |title=Parents mourn 'brave girl' who set herself on fire in memory of uncle |first=Jeevan |last=Vasagar |date=24 June 2003 |work=The Guardian |access-date=2016-11-26}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2004-07-21}} || {{sn|Mordehai (Hamimo)|Cohen|nolink=1}} || 30 || {{flag| Israel}}|| Rejection of work license || Self-immolated during a City Hall assembly<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nrg.co.il/online/54/ART2/388/175.html?hp=54&cat=873&loc=60|title=Hamimo Cohen sets himself on fire|work=NRG|access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2004-10-05}} || {{sn|Maggy|Mufu Delvaux|nolink=1}} || 44 || {{flag| Luxembourg}}|| Protest against institutionalized racism|| Self-immolated in a public place<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/vous/article/2004/10/19/au-luxembourg-une-mere-congolaise-se-suicide-dans-l-indifference_383550_3238.html|title=Au Luxembourg, une mère congolaise se suicide dans l'indifférence|work=Le Monde|date=October 19, 2004|access-date=June 5, 2019}}</ref> Money problems resulting from the Luxembourgish government denying her family the authorisation to open a garage despite meeting all the legal requirements and suing the State for discrimination have driven the woman to desperately plead her case publicly after writing an open letter to the Prime Minister warning him of what she was about to do. However no help was sent to her to prevent her immolation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thepatrioticvanguard.com/belgium-black-woman-sets-herself-on-fire|title=Belgium: Black woman sets herself on fire|date=2007-10-19|website=The Patriotic Vanguard|language=en|access-date=2019-11-17}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2005-08-17}} || {{sn|Yelena|Businov|nolink=1}} || 54 || rowspan="2" | {{flag| Israel}}|| rowspan="2" |Protest against the [[Israeli disengagement from Gaza]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/for-the-land-she-loved-to-death-1.168473|title=For the land she loved to death|date=August 30, 2005|work=Haaretz.com|access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2005-08-31}} || {{sn|Baruch|Ben Menahem|nolink=1}} || 21 ||<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3138570,00.html|title=ynet מת מפצעיו הצעיר שהצית עצמו בגלל ההתנתקות – חדשות|work=ynet|date=September 6, 2005|access-date=December 20, 2014|language=he|last1=וייס|first1=אפרת}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| {{dts|2006-03-28}} || {{sn|Eleftheria Fourtoulaki||nolink=1}}|| || {{flag| Greece}}|| Treatment of [[Kurdish people|Kurds]] in Turkey ||<ref>{{cite news|last=Dion|first=B.|url=http://archive.enet.gr/online/online_text/c=112,dt=30.03.2006,id=27353960|title=Ελεύθερο Κουρδιστάν ή θάνατος...|work=Eleftherotypia|date=2006-03-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101005104051/http://archive.enet.gr/online/online_text/c=112,dt=30.03.2006,id=27353960|archive-date=2010-10-05|language=el}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2006-06-11}} || {{sn|Pravin|Joshi|nolink=1}} || 30 || {{flag| India}}|| Screening of ''[[Fanaa (film)|Fanaa]]'' || Died 9 days later.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/06/21/stories/2006062107441500.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080523185526/http://www.hindu.com/2006/06/21/stories/2006062107441500.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 23, 2008 |title=Fanaa: man who immolates dies|date=June 21, 2006 |access-date=December 2, 2009 |work=[[The Hindu]] |location=Chennai, India}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2006-10-31}} || {{sn|Roland|Weisselberg}} || 73 || {{flag| Germany}}|| Spread of Islam || Former Lutheran pastor self-immolated in a former monastery in [[Erfurt]]. Died the following day.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://articles.latimes.com/2006/dec/28/world/fg-priest28| title=Pastor's fiery protest mystifies many |first=Jeffrey |last=Fleishman |date=December 28, 2006 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=2016-11-26}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2006-11-03}} || {{sn|Malachi|Ritscher}} || 52 || {{flag| United States}}|| [[War in Iraq]] || Died at the scene.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1127-08.htm |title=Activist's Fiery Death Prompts Questions |agency=Associated Press |date=November 27, 2006 |access-date=November 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110827121030/http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1127-08.htm |archive-date=August 27, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
|-
|November 23, 2006
|Lhakpa Tsering
| 23
|{{flag| India}}
|[[Human rights in Tibet#Human rights in post-1950 Tibet|Political situation in Tibet]]
|Survived.{{cn|date=April 2022}}
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| {{dts|2007-03-07}} || {{sn|Uddhav|Bhandari|nolink=1}} || 40 || {{flag| United Kingdom}}|| Asylum policy || Nepali asylum seeker<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6468103.stm|title=Fire protest asylum seeker dies|publisher=BBC News|date=2007-03-19|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2007-04-01}} || {{sn|Heo|Se-uk}} || 54 || {{flag| South Korea}}|| [[South Korea – United States Free Trade Agreement]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/203235.html|title=Man who immolated himself in protest of FTA dies|work=The Hankyoreh|date=2007-04-16|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2008-10-01}} || {{sn|Ramiro Guillén|Tapia|nolink=1}} || 65 || {{flag| Mexico}}|| Local government in the city of [[Xalapa]]||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Oct01/0,4670,LTMexicoSelfImmolation,00.html|title=Mexican farm leader dies after setting himself onfire|work=Fox News|access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2009-01-29}} || {{sn|Kumar|Muthukumar}} || 26 || {{flag| India}}|| Killing of the [[Sri Lankan Tamils]] || Inspired several other self-immolations<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=28208|title=Last statement of Muthukumar|publisher=Tamilnet.com|access-date=December 2, 2009}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2009-02-12}} || {{sn|Murugathasan|Varnakulasingham|nolink=1}} || 26 || {{flagu|Switzerland}} || Killing of the [[Sri Lankan Tamils]] || Inspired several other self-immolations<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/feb/19/tamil-suicide-protest-geneva|title=Tamil killed himself 'to guide others to liberation'|work=The Guardian|access-date=June 26, 2012|location=London, UK|first=Sam|last=Jones|date=February 19, 2009}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2009-02-27}} || Tapey || mid-20s || rowspan="2" | {{flag| China}}|| [[Human rights in Tibet#Human rights in post-1950 Tibet|Political situation in Tibet]] || Monk, Kirti Monastery, Ngaba. Shot<ref name="savetibet-list-tapey">{{cite web |url=http://www.savetibet.org/resource-center/maps-data-fact-sheets/self-immolation-fact-sheet#Tapey |title=Self-immolation Fact Sheet: Tapey |publisher=Savetibet.org |access-date=November 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/63Dp76k5a?url=http://www.savetibet.org/resource-center/maps-data-fact-sheets/self-immolation-fact-sheet#Tapey |archive-date=November 15, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> by Chinese police while on fire, and then taken away by them. Current status unknown.<ref name="savetibet-list-tapey" />
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| {{dts|2009-11-13}} || {{sn|Tang|Fu-zhen|Tang Fu-zhen self-immolation incident}} || 47 || Forced demolition of her home || Died 16 days later.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/opinion/26iht-edcohen.html |date=2010-01-25 |work=The New York Times |title=A Woman Burns |first=Roger |last=Cohen|author-link=Roger Cohen|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2009-12-03}} || {{sn|Kasoju|Srikanth Chary|nolink=1}} || 24 || {{flag| India}}|| For statehood of [[Telangana]] || Died the following day.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.siasat.com/news/trs-activist-srikanth-cremated-61311/|title=TRS activist Srikanth cremated|work=The Siasat Daily|access-date=January 11, 2018}}</ref>
|}

=== 2010s ===
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! style="width:20px;" | Age
! style="width:80px;" | Country
! style="width:20%;" | Protesting || Notes and references
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|{{dts|2010-02-20}}||{{sn|Siripur|Yadaiah|nolink=1}}|| 19 || rowspan="2" |{{flag| India }}|| rowspan="2" | For statehood of [[Telangana]]|| Student. Self immolated at the main gate of [[Osmania University]], [[Hyderabad]]. Died the next day in hospital.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news18.com/news/india/telangana-telangana-fire-2-333822.html |title=Telangana protestor succumbs to 80 pc burns |date=February 21, 2010 |publisher=News18 |access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Student-who-set-himself-ablaze-for-Telangana-cause-dies/articleshow/5598698.cms |via=The Times of India |title=Student who set himself ablaze for Telangana cause dies |agency=Press Trust of India |date=2010-02-21|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2010-07-31}}||{{sn|Eshan|Reddy|nolink=1}}|| 20s || Student. Self-immolated as an offering for a deity for the cause of statehood.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_student-commits-suicide-for-telangana-osmania-univ-tense_1416864|title=Student commits suicide for Telangana, Osmania Univ tense|work=dna|access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2010-09-10}}||{{sn||Ye Zhongcheng|Yihuang self-immolation incident}}|| 79 ||{{flag| China}}||Forced demolition of their home || Zhongcheng self-immolated with two family members and died on September 18.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.china.org.cn/china/2010-10/11/content_21097539.htm |title=Party officials removed after self-immolation protest| access-date=2016-11-26 |date=October 11, 2010 |agency=Xinhua News Agency |publisher=China.org.cn}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2010-12-17}}||[[Mohamed Bouazizi|Tarek el-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi]]|| 26 ||{{flag| Tunisia}}|| Corruption in government || Inspired the [[Tunisian revolution]] leading to ouster of [[Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali|President Ben Ali]] and further revolutions of the [[Arab Spring]]. Died January 4, 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/bouazizi-has-become-a-tunisian-protest-symbol|title=Bouazizi has become a Tunisian protest 'symbol'|publisher=The National |access-date=January 14, 2011}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2011-01-16}}||{{sn|Venugopala|Reddy|nolink=1}}|| 20s||{{flag| India }}|| For statehood of [[Telangana]]|| MCA student immolated himself near his university auditorium,died on the spot.<ref>{{cite news|last=Janyala |first=Sreenivas |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/fresh-telangana-stir-over-students-death/569725/0|title=Fresh Telangana stir over student's death|work=The Indian Express|date=2010-01-21|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2011-01-16}}||{{sn|Mohsen|Bouterfif|nolink=1}}|| – ||{{flag| Algeria}}|| Unemployment and housing || Inspired by Bouazizi's self-immolation in Tunisia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/01/20111162363063915.html|title=Algerian dies from self-immolation|publisher=Al Jazeera English |access-date=January 17, 2011}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2011-01-16}}||{{sn||Bhavani|nolink=1}}||18||{{flag| India }}|| For statehood of [[Telangana]]||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/report/student-commits-suicide-for-telangana/20111002.htm|title=Student commits suicide for Telangana|date=October 2, 2011|work=rediff.com|access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2011-01-17}}||{{sn|Yacoub Ould|Dahoud|nolink=1}}|| 43 ||{{flag|Mauritania|1959}}|| Political situation in Mauritania ||<ref>[https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iKXN1ZN3SS8LoK9Kz-0Eb_jPgk-Q?docId=bf0a61839db345c387e71f11b09f166c Mauritanian man sets himself ablaze in capital], google.com; accessed May 7, 2015.</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2011-01-23}}
|Unnamed man
|60s
|{{Flag|Saudi Arabia}}
|Political situation in Saudi Arabia
|<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-12260465|title=Man dies in Saudi self-immolation|date=2011|publisher=BBC News|access-date=2017-09-28|language=en-GB}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2011-02-21}}||{{sn|Mustafa||nolink=1}}||40||{{flag| India }}|| For statehood of [[Telangana]]||<ref>{{cite news| url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Lensman-attempts-suicide/articleshow/7536272.cms|work=The Times of India|title=Lensman attempts suicide|date=2011-02-20|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2011-03-16}}||{{sn|Rigzin|Phuntsog|Phuntsog self-immolation incident#March incident}}|| 21 ||{{flag| China}}||[[Human rights in Tibet#Human rights in post-1950 Tibet|Political situation in Tibet]]|| Monk of [[Kirti Monastery]]. In [[Ngaba]], [[Amdo]]. Beaten by police before they extinguished the flames. Died in hospital.<ref name="abctibet2011">{{in lang|es}} [http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=968342 China endurecerá la seguridad en las regiones tibetanas tras las inmolaciones]- ABC</ref><ref name="savetibet-list-phuntsog">{{cite web|url=http://www.savetibet.org/resource-center/maps-data-fact-sheets/self-immolation-fact-sheet#Phuntsog|title=Self-immolation Fact Sheet: Phuntsog|publisher=SaveTibet.org|access-date=November 16, 2011|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/63Dp76k5a?url=http://www.savetibet.org/resource-center/maps-data-fact-sheets/self-immolation-fact-sheet#Phuntsog|archive-date=November 15, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="savetibet-list">[http://www.savetibet.org/resource-center/maps-data-fact-sheets/self-immolation-fact-sheet Self-Immolation Fact Sheet]({{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111110154735/http://www.savetibet.org/resource-center/maps-data-fact-sheets/self-immolation-fact-sheet |date=November 10, 2011 }})</ref>
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|{{dts|2011-06-15}}||{{sn|Thomas James|Ball|Thomas_Ball_(activist)}}|| 58 ||{{flag| United States}}||[[Father's rights]] and family court injustice || Self immolated on the steps of a family courthouse in New Hampshire. Died on the spot.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.ibtimes.com/american-father-self-immolates-protest-against-family-courts-291497 | work=International Business Times|title=American Father Self-Immolates To Protest Against Family Courts|date=June 17, 2011}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2011-08-15}}||{{sn|Tsewang|Norbu|nolink=1}}|| 29 ||{{flag| China}}||[[Human rights in Tibet#Human rights in post-1950 Tibet|Political situation in Tibet]]|| Monk of Nyitso monastery in Kham Tawu. In Tawu. Died soon afterwards.<ref name="abctibet2011" /><ref name="savetibet-list" /><ref name="savetibet-list-tsewang">{{cite web|url=http://www.savetibet.org/resource-center/maps-data-fact-sheets/self-immolation-fact-sheet#TsewangNorbu|title=Self-immolation Fact Sheet: Tsewang Norbu|publisher=SaveTibet.org|access-date=November 16, 2011|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/63Dp76k5a?url=http://www.savetibet.org/resource-center/maps-data-fact-sheets/self-immolation-fact-sheet#TsewangNorbu|archive-date=November 15, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2011-08-28}}||{{sn||Senkodi|nolink=1}}|| 27 ||{{flag| India }}|| Convictions in the [[Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi]] case || A Tamil woman immolated herself in front of a [[tahsil]] office at [[Kanchipuram]] to protest death sentences of [[A. G. Perarivalan]], V. Sriharan (alias Murugan), and T. Suthendraraja (alias Santhan). She died the same day.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110829/jsp/nation/story_14438207.jsp| title=Suicide to stop hanging – Protests against Rajiv Killers' execution grow in Tamil Nadu |first=G.C. |last=Shekhar |date=August 28, 2011 |work=The Telegraph}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
|{{dts|2011-09-16}}||{{sn|Apostolos|Polyzonis|nolink=1}}|| 55||{{flag|Greece}}||[[European sovereign-debt crisis]]|| Self-immolated in front of a bank in [[Thessaloniki]].<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15357318 Why Apostolos Polyzonis set himself on fire in Greece], [[BBC]], October 19, 2011.</ref>
|- valign="top"
|{{dts|2011-09-23}}
|{{Sn|Andrzej|Żydek|nolink=yes}}
||49
|{{Flag|Poland}}
|Opposition to the [[Civic Platform]] government
| Occurred in front of the [[Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland]]. A letter to [[Donald Tusk]] was found attached to a bench in the park.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvn24.pl/wiadomosci-z-kraju,3/podpalil-sie-przed-kancelaria-jest-sledztwo,213794.html|title=Podpalił się przed kancelarią. Jest śledztwo|access-date=January 11, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.se.pl/wiadomosci/polska/andrzej-z-z-biedy-podpali-sie-pod-kancelaria-premiera-zostawil-list-do-donalda-tuska-zyce-dobrego-sa_206812.html|title=Andrzej Ż. z BIEDY PODPALIŁ SIĘ przed Kancelarią Premiera. Zostawił LIST do Donalda Tuska: Życzę dobrego samopoczucia|access-date=January 11, 2018}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2012-03-17}}||{{sn|Sonam|Thargyal|nolink=1}} (Dargye, Dhargay) || 44 || || Farmer in Rebkong, [[Amdo]]. Died on the spot.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.savetibet.org/resource-center/maps-data-fact-sheets/self-immolation-fact-sheet#SonamThargyal|title=Tibet Immolation Factsheet – Sonam Thargyal|publisher=International Campaign for Tibet|access-date=March 31, 2012|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/63Dp76k5a?url=http://www.savetibet.org/resource-center/maps-data-fact-sheets/self-immolation-fact-sheet#SonamThargyal|archive-date=November 15, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/blaze-03172012102709.html|title=Farmer Dies in New Burning Protest |publisher=Radio Free Asia|access-date=March 31, 2012}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2012-03-24}}||{{sn|L Bhoja|Naik|nolink=1}}|| 21 ||{{flag| India }}|| For statehood of [[Telangana]]|| MBA student self-immolated in front of his college. Died on the spot.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/telangana-erupts-as-activists-take-their-own-lives/1/182956.html|title=Telangana erupts as activists take their own lives|access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2012-03-26}}||{{sn|Jamphel|Yeshi|2012 BRICS summit#Protests}}|| 27
| ||[[Human rights in Tibet#Human rights in post-1950 Tibet|Political situation in Tibet]]|| Layperson in Delhi. Died 2 days later in hospital.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-china-tibet-idUSBRE82R0E220120328|title=Tibetan dies from self-immolation in India before Hu visit|work=Reuters|access-date=March 31, 2012|date=March 28, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h-uMOeuO9tx-OzCCTFLI9KFXNG9A?docId=dce53ff0a6284410af6f021b156de152|title=Tibetan lights self on fire at anti-China protest|agency=Associated Press|access-date=March 31, 2012}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2012-03-26}}|| Rajmouli || 40
| || For statehood of [[Telangana]]||<ref name="hindustantimes.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/another-man-dies-for-telangana-trs-calls-for-shutdown/story-qqEMoilNGKICGaabtIvf8O.html|title=Another man dies for Telangana, TRS calls for shutdown|agency=Indo-Asian News Service|via=Hindustan Times|date=2012-03-26|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/ap-suicide-politics-back-on-the-boil/243065-60-114.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710193734/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/ap-suicide-politics-back-on-the-boil/243065-60-114.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 10, 2012|title=AP: Suicide politics back on the boil|work=IBNLive|access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2012-03-26}}||{{sn|B.R.|Goud|nolink=1}}|| n/a
|
| ||<ref name="hindustantimes.com" />
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|{{dts|2012-03-27}}||{{sn||Pallavi|nolink=1}}|| 17
|
| || Died later in hospital.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/one-more-suicide-attempt-for-telangana/243419-60-114.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710120256/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/one-more-suicide-attempt-for-telangana/243419-60-114.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 10, 2012|title=One more suicide attempt for Telangana|work=IBNLive|access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2012-03-27}}||{{sn|Kalakanchi|Ilaiah|nolink=1}}|| 30
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| || Scrap dealer.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-28/hyderabad/31249162_1_telangana-congress-leaders-telangana-issue-separate-telangana-state|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709185203/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-28/hyderabad/31249162_1_telangana-congress-leaders-telangana-issue-separate-telangana-state|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 9, 2012|work=[[The Times of India]]|title=Two attempt suicide for Telangana|date=March 28, 2012}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2012-03-28}}||{{sn|K|Uppalaiah|nolink=1}}|| 30
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| ||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/another-suicide-for-telangana/243731-60-114.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710001832/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/another-suicide-for-telangana/243731-60-114.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 10, 2012|title=Another suicide for Telangana|work=IBNLive|access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2012-03-28}}||{{sn|Lobsang|Sherab|nolink=1}}|| 20 ||{{flag| China}}||[[Human rights in Tibet#Human rights in post-1950 Tibet|Political situation in Tibet]]|| Monk of [[Kirti Monastery]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=31156&article=Fire+rages+on%3a+Tibetan+monk+dies+in+fiery+protest|title=Fire rages on: Tibetan monk dies in fiery protest|publisher=Phayul.com|access-date=April 3, 2012}}</ref> In [[Ngaba]], [[Amdo]]. Died on the spot.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.savetibet.org/resource-center/maps-data-fact-sheets/self-immolation-fact-sheet#LobsangSherab|title=Tibet Immolation Factsheet – Lobsang Sherab|publisher=International Campaign for Tibet|access-date=March 31, 2012|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/63Dp76k5a?url=http://www.savetibet.org/resource-center/maps-data-fact-sheets/self-immolation-fact-sheet#LobsangSherab|archive-date=November 15, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/burn-03282012142200.html|title=Kirti Monk Self-Immolates, Dies|publisher=Radio Free Asia|access-date=March 31, 2012}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2012-03-28}}||{{sn|Sripuram|Srikanth|nolink=1}}|| 23||{{flagu|India}}|| For statehood of [[Telangana]]|| Died on March 30 at the Osmania General Hospital.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/hyderabad/man-who-tried-immolation-wednesday-dies-268|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405153455/http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/hyderabad/man-who-tried-immolation-wednesday-dies-268|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 5, 2012|title=Man who tried immolation on Wednesday dies|work=Deccan Chronicle|date=April 5, 2012|access-date=January 11, 2018}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2012-03-30}}||{{sn|Tenpa|Dhargyal|nolink=1}} (Darjey) || 22 ||{{flag| China}}||[[Human rights in Tibet#Human rights in post-1950 Tibet|Political situation in Tibet]]|| Monk of Tsodun monastery, Barkham, [[Amdo]]. Forcibly removed to hospital by Chinese security forces. Current status unknown.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.savetibet.org/resource-center/maps-data-fact-sheets/self-immolation-fact-sheet#TenpaDarjey|title=Tibet Immolation Factsheet – Tenpa Darjey|publisher=International Campaign for Tibet|access-date=March 31, 2012|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/63Dp76k5a?url=http://www.savetibet.org/resource-center/maps-data-fact-sheets/self-immolation-fact-sheet#TenpaDarjey|archive-date=November 15, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="rfa20120331">{{cite web|url=http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/burn-03302012093353.html|title=Two More Monks Burn Themselves|publisher=Radio Free Asia|access-date=March 31, 2012}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2012-03-30}}||{{sn|Chimey|Palden|nolink=1}} (Chime) || 21
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| || Monk of Tsodun monastery, Barkham, [[Amdo]]. Forcibly removed to hospital by Chinese security forces.<ref name="rfa20120331" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.savetibet.org/resource-center/maps-data-fact-sheets/self-immolation-fact-sheet#ChimeyPalden|title=Tibet Immolation Factsheet – Chimey Palden|publisher=International Campaign for Tibet|access-date=March 31, 2012|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/63Dp76k5a?url=http://www.savetibet.org/resource-center/maps-data-fact-sheets/self-immolation-fact-sheet#ChimeyPalden|archive-date=November 15, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> Died later that day around midnight.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=31161&article=Self-immolation+death+toll+rises+to+24+in+Tibet%2c+Chimey+Palden+declared+dead|title=Self-immolation death toll rises to 24 in Tibet, Chimey Palden declared dead|publisher=Phayul.com|access-date=April 3, 2012}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2012-03-30}}||{{sn|Shyamapuri|Shankar|nolink=1}}|| 24||{{flag| India }}|| For statehood of [[Telangana]]||<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-01/hyderabad/31270124_1_youth-attempts-suicide-telangana-state-unemployed-youth |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120517182017/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-01/hyderabad/31270124_1_youth-attempts-suicide-telangana-state-unemployed-youth |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 17, 2012 |work=[[The Times of India]] |title=Another youth attempts suicide for Telangana|date=April 1, 2012}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2012-03-30}}||{{sn|Bandavath|Suresh|nolink=1}}|| 25
| || For statehood of [[Telangana]]|| Suffered 50% burns.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-31/hyderabad/31266332_1_suicide-attempt-degree-student-tribal-youth|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120701165135/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-31/hyderabad/31266332_1_suicide-attempt-degree-student-tribal-youth|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 1, 2012|work=[[The Times of India]]|title=Another suicide attempt by Telangana supporter|date=March 31, 2012}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2012-07-14}}||{{sn|Moshe|Silman}}|| 57||{{flag|Israel}}|| Social justice march in [[Tel Aviv]]|| Social justice activist, suffered 90% burns.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Social-justice-activist-sets-himself-on-fire-in-Tel-Aviv|work=The Jerusalem Post|title=Social justice activist sets himself on fire in Tel Aviv|last=Lappin|first=Yaakov|date=2012-07-14|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref> Died July 20 in hospital.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/National-News/Activist-Silman-who-set-self-on-fire-dies-of-wounds-278294| work=The Jerusalem Post|title=Activist Silman who set self on fire dies of wounds|date=2012-07-20|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2012-07-16}}||{{sn|Zion|Vaknin|nolink=1}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4260724,00.html|title=mynet באר שבע – ציון וקנין מב"ש מספר למה ניסה להצית את עצמו|work=ynet|access-date=December 20, 2014|language=he}}</ref>|| 46
| || Social injustice protest || At [[Beersheba]]'s city hall, in protest of debts.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4256312,00.html|work=ynetews|script-title=he:דרמה בב"ש: ניסה להצית עצמו מול בניין העיריה|date=July 16, 2012|language=he}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2012-07-18}}||{{sn|Valentina|Gerasimovna|nolink=1}}|| 57 ||{{flagu|Russia}}|| || A woman attempted to self-immolate at the public reception center of the ruling [[United Russia]] party in Novosibirsk. Earlier, she addressed the party's public reception center for legal advice as an apartment buyer.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?id=348153|title=Investigators probe incitement to suicide in self-immolation attempt at United Russia public center in Novosibirsk (Part 2)|agency=Interfax|date=2012-07-18|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rferl.org/content/police-probe-self-immolation-in-siberia/24649072.html|title=Police Probe Self-Immolation Act In Ruling Party's Office In Siberia|publisher=RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty|date=2012-07-18|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref> Died in a hospital.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.interfax.co.uk/russia-cis-general-news-bulletins-in-english/novosibirsk-self-immolation-woman-dies-in-hospital|title=Novosibirsk self-immolation woman dies in hospital|agency=Interfax|access-date=January 11, 2018}}{{dead link|date=June 2019}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2012-07-20}}||{{sn|Akiva|Mafi|nolink=1}}|| 45||{{flag|Israel}}|| Social injustice protest || Akiva Mafi<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/disabled-idf-veteran-sets-himself-on-fire-in-yehud-1.452777|title=Disabled IDF veteran sets himself on fire in Yehud|date=July 22, 2012|work=Haaretz|access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref> (45) Disabled IDF veteran sets himself on fire in [[Yehud]], on behalf of wounded veterans.<ref>He made that [http://www.103.fm/programs/Media.aspx?ZrqvnVq=FIKDEM&c41t4nzVQ=EF because] of the social services</ref><ref>Brother of the 45-year-old disabled veteran who self-immolated at Yehud bus stop tells Haaretz: [http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/brother-of-veteran-who-set-himself-alight-idf-doesn-t-love-you-when-you-re-wounded.premium-1.452804 "The army loves you three feet under, but doesn't love you when you're wounded."]</ref> Died August 1, 2012.<ref>[http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4262456,00.html Disabled veteran who set himself on fire dies Akiva Mafi'i, 45, who self-immolated at a bus stop in Yahud some 10 days ago, succumbs to wounds], ynetnews</ref> New agency established to prevent more cases.
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|{{dts|2012-07-30}}|| Đặng Thị Kim Liêng || 64 ||{{flag|Vietnam}}|| Against [[2011 crackdown on Vietnamese youth activists]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jul/31/vietnamese-blogger-mother-fire-tan|title=Vietnamese blogger's mother sets herself on fire as daughter faces trial|agency=Associated Press|via=The Guardian|date=2012-07-31|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref>||[[Tạ Phong Tần]]'s mother. Self-immolated in the early morning. Died en route to the hospital.<ref name="G2">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/05/vietnam-blog-shame |title=Vietnam's blog shame |author=Kamila Shamsie |date=5 August 2012 |work=The Guardian |archive-date=August 7, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120807055030/http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/05/vietnam-blog-shame |access-date=14 August 2012 }}</ref>
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|{{dts|2013-02-18}}||{{sn|Trayan|Marechkov|nolink=1}}|| 26 ||{{flag|Bulgaria}}|| Part of the [[2013 Bulgarian anti-monopoly protests|2013 Bulgarian protests]]|| Died on the spot, at a central crossroads, in front of the central office of a private bank in [[Veliko Tarnovo]].<ref>[http://www.borbabg.com/?action=news&news=24117 26-year-old Tarnovo resident sets himself on fire because of poverty], borbabg.com, February 20, 2013.{{in lang|bg}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Stoyanova|first=Marieta|title=Великотърновци почетоха паметта на самозапалилите се Пламен и Траян|url=http://dariknews.bg/view_article.php?article_id=1051066|publisher=Darik News|access-date=1 April 2013|language=bg}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2013-02-20}}||{{sn|Plamen|Goranov}}|| 36
|{{flag|Bulgaria}}||| Part of the [[Protests against the Borisov cabinet|2013 Bulgarian protests against the Borisov cabinet]]|| Protested corruption and monopolies,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhFqPIiihb0 Plamen Goranov protesting "Down with TIM" in the city of Varna note TIM being allegedly a major monopolist organisation], [[Bivol]], February 24, 2013.</ref> and demanded the resignation of Varna's mayor [[Kiril Yordanov]] and the Municipal Council.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Tsolova|first1=Tsvetelia|last2=Krasimirov|first2=Angel|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bulgaria-mayor-idUSBRE9250RF20130306 |title=Bulgarian mayor resigns after man sets himself on fire|work=[[Reuters]]|date=2013-03-06|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref> Mountain climber and photographer. Set himself alight in front of the [[Varna, Bulgaria|Varna]] municipality. Died 11 days later in hospital.<ref>[http://www.trud.bg/Article.asp?ArticleId=1798013 Man who self-immolated in Varna being operated on today], Trud.bg, 25 February 2013.{{in lang|bg}}</ref><ref>[http://www.trud.bg/Article.asp?ArticleId=1817491 Plamen Goranov dies, Varna in mourning] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102194001/http://www.trud.bg/Article.asp?ArticleId=1817491 |date=January 2, 2014 }}, trud.bg, March 4, 2013.{{in lang|bg}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2013-02-26}}||{{sn|Ventzislav|Vasilev|nolink=1}}|| 53
|{{flag|Bulgaria}}|| Part of the [[2013 Bulgarian anti-monopoly protests|2013 Bulgarian protests]]|| Father of five.<ref>[http://www.24chasa.bg/Article.asp?ArticleId=1802093 Impoverished 53-year-old self-immolates in Radnevo municipality], 24chasa.bg, February 26, 2013.{{in lang|bg}}</ref> Set himself on fire in [[Radnevo]]. Died in hospital two weeks later.
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|{{dts|2013-03-13}}||{{sn|Dimitar|Dimitrov|nolink=1}}|| 51
|{{flag|Bulgaria}}
|Part of the [[2013 Bulgarian anti-monopoly protests|2013 Bulgarian protests]]|| Set himself on fire in front of the Presidential Palace in [[Sofia]]. Hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.<ref>[http://www.monitor.bg/article?id=376825 51-year-old self-immolates in front of presidency] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518075347/http://www.monitor.bg/article?id=376825 |date=May 18, 2015 }}, Monitor.bg, March 14, 2013.{{in lang|bg}}</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22439961 Poverty in Bulgaria drives more to make ultimate sacrifice], BBC.co.uk, May 8, 2013; retrieved May 7, 2015.</ref>
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|{{dts|2013-03-20}}||{{sn|Todor|Yovchev|nolink=1}}|| 40
|{{flag|Bulgaria}}
|Part of the [[2013 Bulgarian anti-monopoly protests|2013 Bulgarian protests]]|| Died on March 22<ref>{{cite news|url=http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/poverty-blamed-for-bulgarias-suicide-wave/?_r=0|title=Poverty Blamed for Bulgaria's Suicide Wave|first=Harvey|last=Morris|work=The New York Times|date=2013-03-23|access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2013-05-24}}||{{sn|Bowatte|Indarathana|nolink=1}}|| 30 ||{{flag|Sri Lanka}}||| Against the slaughtering of cattle and alleged conversion of Buddhists to minority religions in Sri Lanka<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-22677058 | title=Sri Lanka Buddhist monk dies after self-immolation | work=BBC News | date=May 26, 2013 | access-date=September 25, 2016}}</ref>||
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|{{dts|2013-06-12}}
| Andrzej Filipiak
| 56
|{{flag|Poland}}
| Unemployed receiving no help from the state
| Occurred across the street from the [[Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/159625-podpalil-sie-bo-byl-zalamany-i-zrozpaczony-sytuacja-nie-mam-pracy-a-mopr-nam-odmawia-pomocy-nie-mamy-z-czego-zyc|title=Podpalił się, bo "był załamany i zrozpaczony sytuacją". "Nie mam pracy a MOPR nam odmawia pomocy, nie mamy z czego żyć"|access-date=January 11, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/159660-ludzie-juz-tego-nie-wytrzymuja-piec-pytan-do-andrzeja-zydka-ktory-podpalil-sie-w-2011-r-przed-kancelaria-premiera|title="Ludzie już tego nie wytrzymują". PIĘĆ PYTAŃ DO Andrzeja Żydka, który podpalił się w 2011 r. przed kancelarią premiera|access-date=January 11, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/mezczyzna-podpalil-sie-przed-kancelaria-premiera-donalda-tuska-w-warszawie-6031283732890241a|title=Mężczyzna podpalił się przed kancelarią premiera Donalda Tuska w Warszawie|first=Wirtualna Polska Media|last=S.A.|date=June 12, 2013|access-date=January 11, 2018}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2014-06-20}}||{{sn|Thu|Hoang|nolink=1}}|| 71 || rowspan="2" |{{flag| United States}}|| In apparent response to the [[Hai Yang Shi You 981 standoff]] || Apparent protest by a Vietnamese man of a Chinese state-owned oil rig being placed into [[Territorial disputes in the South China Sea|waters contested by Vietnam]] in the [[South China Sea]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Young|first=Mark |url=https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/breaking-news-blog/article34720359.html|title=Bradenton Herald & Lakewood Ranch Herald|work=The Bradenton Herald|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2014-06-23}}||{{sn|Charles R.|Moore|Charles R. Moore (minister)}}|| 79 ||Social injustice<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20140711-in-dying-act-minister-hoped-to-inspire-social-justice.ece|title=In dying act, minister hoped to inspire social justice|publisher=dallasnews.com|access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref>|| Set himself alight in a strip mall parking lot, died upon arrival at hospital.
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|{{dts|2015-03-14}}||{{sn|Younes|Asakere|nolink=1}}|| 34 ||{{flag|Iran}}||| Discrimination of [[Ahwazi Arabs]]|| Self-immolated after local authorities confiscated his vendor stall in [[Khorramshahr]]. Died on March 22.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://ahwazhumanrights.org/en/stories/502|title=Funeral of the Ahwazi Arab who set himself on fire turned into demonstration |date=23 March 2015 |publisher=Ahwaz Human Rights Organization |access-date=2016-11-26}}</ref> Inspired a mass protest which resulted in arrests of some 1,000 people and further self-immolations.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://acfh.info/ahwaz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=440:raise-of-self-immolation-among-ahwazi-arabs-due-to-discrimination-and-poverty&catid=44:2010-09-16-17-14-58 |title=Raise of self-immolation among Ahwazi Arabs due to discrimination and poverty |date=2 June 2016 |publisher=Ahwazi Centre for Human Rights |access-date=2016-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127085119/http://acfh.info/ahwaz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=440:raise-of-self-immolation-among-ahwazi-arabs-due-to-discrimination-and-poverty&catid=44:2010-09-16-17-14-58 |archive-date=November 27, 2016 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
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|{{dts|2015-08-12}}||{{sn|Choi|Yeon-yeol|nolink=1}}|| 80 ||{{flag|South Korea}}|||Japanese colonization of Korea and military conduct during World War II<ref>{{Cite news|title = South Korean Man, 80, Sets Self on Fire at Anti-Japan Rally|url = https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/08/12/world/asia/ap-as-skorea-anti-japan-rally-.html|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 2015-08-12|access-date = 2015-08-12|issn = 0362-4331}}</ref>|| Set himself on fire in a flower bed near the Japanese embassy in Seoul during an anti-Japan protest by "[[comfort women]]" (survivors of World War II Japanese military brothels). Injuries sustained were not life-threatening. Condition Pending.<ref>{{Cite news|title = South Korean man lights himself on fire during anti-Japan protest in Seoul|url = http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-man-sets-himself-on-fire-20150812-story.html|newspaper = Los Angeles Times|date=2015-08-12|access-date = 2019-06-01|issn = 0458-3035|first = Steven|last = Boroweic}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2015-10-18}}||{{sn|Khodayar|Amini|nolink=1}}|| 30 ||{{flagu|Australia}}||| [[Immigration detention in Australia|Australian refugee policy]]|| Self-immolated in Melbourne during a video call to his advocates.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/asylum-seeker-selfimmolates-amid-fears-he-would-be-sent-back-to-detention-senate-hearing-told-20151019-gkd81v.html#ixzz47bc7tRH0|title=Asylum seeker self-immolated amid fears he would be sent back to detention, Senate hearing told|first=Nicole|last=Hasham|date=October 20, 2015|access-date=January 11, 2018|via=The Sydney Morning Herald}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2015-10-24}}||{{sn|Erlan|Bektibaev|nolink=1}}|| 20 ||{{flag|Kazakhstan }}|| Social injustice || Doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire on October 24 in front of the [[Taraz]] headquarters of the ruling Nur Otan party in Taraz. Bektibayev was rushed to hospital, but later died of his burns.{{cn|date=April 2022}}
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|February 28, 2016
|Dorjee Tsering
|16
|{{Flag|India}}
|[[Human rights in Tibet#Human rights in post-1950 Tibet|Political situation in Tibet]]
|Survived and recovered in a [[New Delhi]] hospital. American presidential candidate [[Hillary Clinton]] held up his photograph while speaking to a Tibetan advocacy group.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/world/asia/china-tibet-self-immolations.html|title=Tibetan Monk, 18, Dies After Self-Immolation to Protest Chinese Rule|last=Wong|first=Edward|date=2016-03-03|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-08-13|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2016-03-19}}||{{sn|Charles|Ingram|nolink=1}}|| 51 ||{{flag|United States}}||| Corruption at the [[United States Department of Veterans Affairs]] || Military veteran walked nine miles to a military veteran hospital before self-immolated in the hospital's parking lot.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lipp|first=Kenneth|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/veteran-burned-himself-alive-outside-va-clinic|title=Veteran Burned Himself Alive Outside VA Clinic|date=2016-03-27|work=The Daily Beast|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2016-04-27}}||{{sn|Omid|Masoumali|nolink=1}}|| 23 || rowspan="2" |{{flag|Nauru}}|| rowspan="2"| Australian refugee policy || Iranian refugee self-immolated at an [[Australian immigration detention facilities|Australian refugee detention camp]] during a visit to the camp by representatives of a UNHCR fundraising arm (Australia for UNHCR) who told the refugees to expect to remain on Nauru for "another ten years".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2016/s4454004.htm|title=Claims Iranian man suicided after thinking he would have to stay on Nauru for another 10 years|website=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|date=May 2, 2016|access-date=January 11, 2018}}</ref> After more than 24 hours without adequate medical attention he was airlifted by private contractor to Brisbane, Australia where he died on 29 April 2016 from his burns.<ref>{{Cite news|title = Iranian Asylum Seeker Severely Burnt After Setting Himself On Fire On Nauru |url = https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/apr/27/iranian-asylum-seeker-severely-burnt-after-setting-himself-on-fire-on-nauru}}</ref>
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|{{dts|2016-05-02}}||{{sn|Hodan|Yasi|nolink=1}}|| 21 || In an Australian refugee detention camp. Woman from Somalia (variously referred to as Hadon/Hodan and Yasin/Yasi) was airlifted from Nauru to Brisbane<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-02/second-refugee-sets-themselves-alight-on-nauru/7377710|title=Nauru refugee suffers critical injuries after setting herself on fire|newspaper=ABC News|date=May 2, 2016|access-date=January 11, 2018}}</ref> but her condition as at late May 2016 is shrouded in secrecy. It seems she may still be alive, since her death would have to be reported under Queensland Law and an inquest into her death held as she would be deemed to be a "Death in Custody" had she died.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}
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|May 19, 2017{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}
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|54{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}
|{{flagu|Germany}}
|Islamization of Germany
|Died in hospital. Police said the man had scrawled slogans on his car along the lines of "Never again war on German soil" and "Amri is only the tip of the iceberg" — a reference to Anis Amri, the Tunisian who attacked a Christmas market in Berlin and whom authorities had previously been unable to deport.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/man-munich-set-on-fire-himself-germany-die-marienplatz-bavaria-a7744951.html|title=Man sets himself on fire in centre of Munich|date=2017-05-19|work=The Independent|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2017-07-15}}
|{{Sortname|Tenzin|Choeying|nolink=yes}}
|20
| rowspan="2" |{{Flag|India}}
| rowspan="2" |[[Human rights in Tibet#Human rights in post-1950 Tibet|Political situation in Tibet]]
|Suffered 50% burns. Died nine days later from his injuries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/hospital-07242017131257.html|title=Tibetan Self-Immolator Tenzin Choeying Dies in Indian Hospital|website=Radio Free Asia|access-date=January 11, 2018}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2017-07-29}}
|{{Sn|Pasang|Dhondup|nolink=yes}}
|49
|Died in [[Dharamshala]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thetibetpost.com/en/news/exile/5657-tibetan-man-dies-in-apparent-self-immolation-protest-in-dharamshala|title=Tibetan man dies in apparent self-immolation protest in Dharamshala|work=The Tibet Post International|date=2017-07-31|access-date=2017-09-28}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2017-9-21}}
|{{Sn|Zdenek|Hanzlik}}
|60
|{{Flag|New Zealand}}
|Family Court Injustices
|Zdenek "Sid" Hanzlik, died in Wellington Hospital after setting himself on fire outside Parliament protesting against 'perceived injustices' in the Family Court <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/coroner-report-released-on-zdenek-hanzlik/|title=Man who lit himself on fire at Parliament was protesting 'injustices': Coroner|work=New Zealand Herald|date=2019-05-09|access-date=2019-05-09}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2017-10-19}}
|{{Sn|Piotr|Szczęsny}}
|54
|{{Flag|Poland}}
|Rule of [[Law and Justice]] political party
|Leaflets<ref>https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMjhWhsUIAInS_Y.jpg {{Bare URL image|date=March 2022}}</ref><ref>https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMjhWhtUEAAa5YK.jpg {{Bare URL image|date=March 2022}}</ref> were strewn around him on the ground outside of the [[Palace of Culture and Science]], and a speaker was broadcasting a song by a 1990s Polish rock band titled "I love freedom".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYMiNuJJyYM|title=Chłopcy z Placu broni – Kocham wolność|last=NCKultury|date=January 17, 2013|access-date=January 11, 2018|via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/pole-attempts-self-immolation-in-likely-anti-govt-protest|title=Pole attempts self-immolation in likely anti-govt protest|last=hermesauto|date=October 20, 2017|access-date=January 11, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rmf24.pl/goraca-linia/wasze-fakty/news-54-latek-podpalil-sie-na-placu-defilad-nieoficjalnie-zostawi,nId,2455165|title=54-latek podpalił się na Placu Defilad. Nieoficjalnie: Zostawił list, w którym krytykował rząd|first=RMF|last=FM.|access-date=January 11, 2018}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2018-1-15}}
|{{Sn|Dmitry|Rudov|nolink=yes}}
|39
|{{flagu|Russia}}
|Corruption of government
|After being sacked from Gazprom's subsidiary and unsuccessfully appealing to President Putin, he set himself on fire in front of [[Ishimbay]]'s City Hall in Bashkortostan. Died in hospital the next day.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-bashkortostan-rudov-immolation-ishimbai/28978824.html|title=Sacked Man Dies After Setting Fire To Himself In Bashkortostan|date=January 16, 2018 |publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|access-date=January 21, 2018}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2018-4-14}}
|{{Sn|David|Buckel}}
|60
|{{flagu|United States}}
|Climate change and pollution<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/28/nyregion/david-buckel-fire-prospect-park-fossil-fuels.html |title=What Drove a Man to Set Himself on Fire in Brooklyn? |publisher=The New York Times |quote="He was trying to call attention to pollution and global warming. “My early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves,” he wrote in his email."}}</ref>
|
In a note sent to ''The New York Times'' and other news outlets, along with a copy attached to a shopping cart near his body he stated fossil fuel use and the environmental destruction it causes as the reason he decided to end his life by self-immolation with fossil fuels. Buckel was a prominent lawyer for gay rights, and was involved in environmental causes.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/14/nyregion/david-buckel-dead-fire.html|title=Prominent Lawyer in Fight for Gay Rights Dies After Setting Himself on Fire in Prospect Park|last=Mays|first=Jeffery C.|date=2018-04-14|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/15/us/david-buckel-gay-rights-attorney-suicide/index.html|title=Prominent gay rights lawyer sets himself on fire in protest suicide|date=April 15, 2018 |publisher=CNN|access-date=April 15, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.advocate.com/society/2018/4/14/former-lambda-legal-lawyer-david-buckel-dies-after-self-immolation |title=Former Lambda Legal Lawyer David Buckel Dies After Self-Immolation |first=Trudy |last=Ring |publisher=Advocate}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2018-05-20}}
|{{Sn|Fathi|Harb|nolink=yes}}
|20
|{{Flag|Palestine}}
|Economic situation in [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]]
|Died on May 23.<ref>{{cite news|last=Akram|first=Fares|url=https://www.apnews.com/b5c61e4845974840bbd50943ce46173d|title=Palestinian publicly sets himself on fire in Gaza|work=Associated Press|date=2018-05-20|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/palestinian-on-fire-gaza-protests-street-israel-living-conditions-fathi-harb-sheikh-radwan-a8361221.html|title=Palestinian man publicly sets himself on fire over dire living conditions in Gaza|work=The Independent|access-date=2018-09-28}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2018-06-20}}
|{{Sn|Chloe|Sagal|nolink=yes}}
|31
| rowspan="2" |{{flagu|United States}}
|[[Homelessness in the United States|Homelessness]] and mental health issues
|Several days after threatening self-harm with a machete, Sagal walked into a downtown Oregon Park, read a statement regarding homelessness and mental health before covering herself with fluid and setting herself alight.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/06/woman_who_set_self_on_fire_in.html|title=Woman who set self on fire in Portland park remembered as 'brilliant and tortured' artist|work=OregonLive.com|access-date=2018-06-26}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
|{{dts|2018-06-26}}||{{sn|John|Watts|nolink=1}}|| 58 ||| Corruption at the [[United States Department of Veterans Affairs]] || Military veteran self-immolated on the steps of the Georgia state Capitol to protest corruption at the [[United States Department of Veterans Affairs]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Zraick|first=Karen|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/us/disgrunted-veteran-fire-atlanta.html|title=Veteran Sets Himself on Fire Outside State Capitol in Atlanta|date=2018-06-26|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2018-08-03}}
|{{Sn|Vatan|Karabash|nolink=yes}}
|47–48
|Crimea ([[Political status of Crimea|disputed]])
|Russian annexation of Crimea and repressions of the Crimean Tatars
|Karabash set himself on fire in public, declaring Russia policies to be lawless; he had previously expressed anger at plans for demolition of Crimean Tatar houses in Russian-annexed Crimea, which had been deemed "illegal" since they were built before deported Crimean Tatars were permitted to return. Bystanders put out the flames and the injuries were reported to be non-fatal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/crimean-tatar-activist-sets-himself-on-fire-to-protest-lawlessness-/29409927.html|title=Crimean Tatar Activist Sets Himself On Fire To Protest 'Lawlessness'|publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|date=2018-08-03|access-date=2018-08-05}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2018-08-15}}
|{{Sn|Unknown||nolink=yes}}
|50s
|{{flagu|United Kingdom}}
|Homelessness
|A woman in her fifties (later identified under the pseudonym "Melanie Smith"), under threat of eviction and suffering from mental health issues set herself on fire at the housing office of [[Barnet London Borough Council]]. She died in intensive care several months later, with council employees reportedly having been ordered not to discuss the incident with journalists.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/08/unlearned-lessons-death-of-woman-housing-mental-health-crisis|title=Mother searches for answers a year after daughter set herself on fire in council housing office
|newspaper=The Guardian|date=2019-09-08|access-date=2019-10-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/08/barn-s08.html|title=British media blacks out self-immolation of woman at Barnet council office|publisher=World Socialist Website|date=2018-09-08|access-date=2019-10-11}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2018-9-19}}
|{{Sn|Nicholas|McCrary|nolink=yes}}
|29
|{{flagu|United States}}
|[[Involuntary celibacy]] and mental health
|McCrary was a prolific YouTuber who had autism and whose videos were popular with "blackcels" (black [[incel]]s). He also used the pseudonym Baraka Mckray, and accused black women of being "prejudiced" against autistic men such as himself.<ref name="McCrary">{{Cite web|url=https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/inside-the-world-of-black-incels|title=Inside the World of Black Incels|date=December 9, 2019|website=MEL Magazine}}</ref><ref name="fountain">{{Cite web|url=https://www.occupy.com/article/black-manosphere-displays-black-men-s-sexual-rage-and-frustration|title=Black Manosphere Displays Black Men's Sexual Rage and Frustration|date=December 6, 2018|website=Occupy.com}}</ref>
|-
|September 27, 2018
|unknown
|
|{{flagu|Germany}}
|Against the imprisonment of [[Abdullah Öcalan]]
|Self-immolated in [[Ingolstadt]], as [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]] was to visit [[Germany]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Selbstverbrennung in Ingolstadt: Kurden sprechen von Protest|url=https://www.t-online.de/-/84528958|access-date=2021-02-17|website=www.t-online.de|language=de}}</ref>
|-
|November 28, 2018
|Mahsun Özen
|21
|[[Turkey]]
|Treatment of Kurds in Turkey
|Self-immolated on the anniversary of the [[Roboski airstrike]] in which 34 Kurds died<ref>{{Cite news|last=Acarer|first=Erk|date=2018-09-30|title=Selbstverbrennung in Ingolstadt: Videobotschaft gegen Erdoğan|language=de|work=Die Tageszeitung: taz|url=https://taz.de/!5536657/|access-date=2021-03-23|issn=0931-9085}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2019-1-18}}
|Name missing
|54
|{{Flag|Czech Republic}}
|In memory of Jan Palach who burned himself to death in 1969, protesting the [[Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia]]
|Suffered 30% burns after setting himself on fire at the central [[Wenceslas Square]] of Prague on the 50th anniversary of Jan Palach's death from his self-immolation protest against the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. According to Czech authorities, "he said it was only a remembrance to Jan Palach".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-czech-fire/man-sets-himself-on-fire-in-pragues-wenceslas-square-idUSBRE90J0BJ20130120|title=Man sets himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square |date=2018-01-20 |work=Reuters|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref>
|-
|Februar 20, 2019
|Name missing
|43
|{{flagu|Germany}}
|Against the imprisonment of [[Abdullah Öcalan]]
|Self-immolated in front of the Court in [[Krefeld]], [[Germany]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Stirken|first=Norbert|date=2020-02-20|title=Demo am Gericht in Krefeld: Sympathie für Kurden-Protest|url=https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/krefeld/demo-am-gericht-in-krefeld-sympathie-fuer-kurden-protest_aid-49079273|access-date=2021-02-17|website=RP ONLINE|language=de}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2019-05-29}}
|{{Sn|Arnav|Gupta|nolink=yes}}
|33
|{{flagu|United States}}
|Unknown
|An Indian-origin resident of [[Bethesda, Maryland]] died in hospital that day after setting himself on fire near the [[White House]] in Washington, D.C. while wearing a USA T-shirt. ''The Washington Post'' described his actions as "an unmistakable protest, the loudest, most spectacular cry that people in pain can come up with."<ref>{{cite news|last=Dvorak|first=Petula|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/self-immolation-can-be-a-form-of-protest-or-a-cry-for-help-are-we-listening/2019/05/30/49e145e8-82fc-11e9-933d-7501070ee669_story.html|title=Self-immolation can be a form of protest. Or a cry for help. Are we listening?|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=2019-05-30|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2019-07-19}}
|{{Sn|Unknown||nolink=yes}}
|70s
|{{Flag|South Korea}}
|Unknown
|A man used 20 liters of fuel to set himself on fire in his car in the early morning outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul. He died several hours later in the hospital.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/asia/south-korea-japan-embassy-fire-intl-hnk/index.html|title=South Korean man dies after setting himself on fire outside Japanese embassy in Seoul|last1=Jeong|first1=Sophie|last2=Mackintosh|first2=Eliza|date=19 July 2019|website=CNN|access-date=2019-07-19}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2019-09-09}}
|{{Sn|Sahar|Khodayari}}
|29
|{{Flag|Iran}}
|[[Women's rights in Iran#Sports|The right for women in Iran to attend a football match alongside men]]
|The Iranian female football fan died that day, one week after setting herself on fire outside an [[Judicial system of Iran|Iranian court]], reportedly after learning she may have to serve a six-month sentence for trying to enter a football stadium (alongside men).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/10/iranian-female-football-fan-who-self-immolated-outside-court-dies|title=Iranian female football fan who self-immolated outside court dies |website=The Guardian|date=10 September 2019|access-date=10 September 2019}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2019-09-10}}
|{{Sn|Albert|Razin}}
|79
|{{flagu|Russia}}
|The declining status and use of the [[Udmurt language]] in Russia.
|The scholar and activist set himself on fire outside the [[State Council of the Udmurt Republic|State Council]] building in [[Izhevsk]], [[Udmurtia|Udmurt Republic]], as the regional government was considering passing a bill to reduce the status of the indigenous Udmurt language in the republic. Razin died the same day.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/09/10/russian-scholar-dies-from-self-immolation-during-protest-to-save-native-language-a67229|title=Russian Scholar Dies From Self-Immolation While Protesting to Save Native Language|date=2019-09-10|website=The Moscow Times|language=en|access-date=2019-09-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/man-sets-himself--fire-russia--udmurtia-language-protest-against-language-bill/30156654.html|title=Man Dies After Self-Immolation Protest Over Language Policies In Russia's Udmurtia|date=2019-09-10|website=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|language=en|access-date=2019-09-11}}</ref>
|-
|October 23, 2019
|unknown
|
|{{flagu|Switzerland}}
|In protest of the [[Turkish invasion of Syria]]
|A Syrian Kurdish man set himself on fire in front of the seat of the [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Representation in Cyprus|UNHCR]] in [[Geneva]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Syrian Kurd sets himself on fire outside UN refugee agency|url=https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/man-sets-himself-on-fire-outside-un-refugee-agency-605520|website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2019-11-10}}
|{{Sn|Anas K.||nolink=yes}}
|22
|{{flagu|France}}
|Student living costs, anti-fascism
|A 22-year-old man enrolled at [[Lyon 2 University]] set himself on fire in front of a university restaurant in response to being unable to sustain himself on €450 a month. In a post on [[Facebook]], he blamed [[Emmanuel Macron]], [[François Hollande]], [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] and the EU for having "killed" him, and also attacked [[Marine Le Pen]] and media figures for creating fear, also urging readers to "Fight against the rise of fascism which divides us, and against liberalism which creates inequalities". He was admitted to hospital with 90% burns over his body.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.euronews.com/2019/11/09/destitute-student-self-immolates-in-lyon-in-desperate-protest-at-inequality|title=Destitute student self-immolates in Lyon in 'desperate' protest at inequality|date=2019-09-11|website=Euronews|language=en|access-date=2019-10-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50361886|title=French student sets himself on fire over financial problems|date=2019-09-11|website=BBC News|language=en|access-date=2019-10-11}}</ref>
|}

=== 2020s ===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! style="width:120px;"| Date
! style="width:120px;"| Name
! style="width:20px;" | Age
! style="width:80px;" | Country
! style="width:20%;" | Protesting || Notes and references
|- valign="top"
|{{dts|2020-02-07}}
|Adem Yarıcı
|42
|{{Flag|Turkey}}
|Unemployment in Turkey
|42-year-old unemployed man, father of two, set himself on fire in front of [[Hatay]] governor's office. Witnesses said that he shouted "My kids are hungry!" before setting himself ablaze. He died on the same day. The governor claimed that Yarıcı divorced from his wife a while ago, had mental illness and attempt to self-immolate before.
<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ipa.news/amp/2020/02/08/jobless-father-of-two-hungry-kids-dies-after-setting-himself-alight//|title = Jobless father of two "hungry" kids dies after setting himself alight|date = February 8, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.duvarenglish.com/amp/man-attempts-self-immolation-in-front-of-parliament-news-13573|title = Man attempts self-immolation in front of parliament}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.korfezgazete.com/hatay-valiligi-onunde-cocuklarim-ac-diyerek-kendini-yakti/|title=Hatay Valiliği Önünde İşsizlik İntiharı: "Çocuklarım Aç" Diyerek Kendini Yaktı | Körfez Gazetesi}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
|{{dts|2020-06-16}}
|unknown
|48
|{{Flag|Poland}}
|Unknown
|A 48-year-old man set himself on fire shortly after talking to journalists outside of the [[Sejm]] building in [[Warsaw]], Poland.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Przed Sejmem podpalił się mężczyzna. Wcześniej rozmawiał z dziennikarzami|url=https://warszawa.wyborcza.pl/warszawa/7,54420,26036909,przed-sejmem-podpalil-sie-mezczyzna-trwa-akcja-ratunkowa.html|website=Gazeta Wyborcza{{!}} wyborcza.pl|access-date=2020-06-16}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
|{{dts|2020-07-27}}
|Arie den Dekker
|54
|{{flagu|Netherlands}}
|Murder witness, removed from family, turned homeless
|Den Dekker had witnessed a murder in 2018. Following this, his house was torched multiple times and he was put into a witness protection program. Unable to be with his family and having his pleas ignored by the municipality and the government, Den Dekker protested in front of Oss' city hall multiple times, throwing dead fish inside, dousing himself in cow feces and committing other acts of despair on multiple occasions. On July 27 he committed suicide by self-immolation in front of the city hall.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Arie den Dekker steekt zichzelf in brand; Tot wanhoop gedreven na getuigenverklaring|date= July 27, 2020 |url= https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/3238181/arie-den-dekker-steekt-zichzelf-in-brand-tot-wanhoop-gedreven-na-getuigenverklaring |access-date=2020-07-27}}</ref>
|-
|August 3, 2020
|Yavuz Polat
|46
|{{Flag|Turkey}}
|Economical issues
|A 47-year-old street vendor from [[Erzincan]] set himself on fire after the police wanted him to remove his corn stall. He died on August 27.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.duvarenglish.com/human-rights/2020/08/30/street-vendor-who-set-himself-on-fire-after-municipal-police-seized-his-stall-dies-in-turkey|title = Street vendor who set himself on fire after municipal police seized his stall dies in Turkey|date = August 30, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bgazete.com.tr/amp/haber/5071452/ekmek-teknesi-gidince-kendini-yakti|title = Ekmek Teknesi Gidince Kendini Yaktı -}}</ref>
|-
|{{dts|2020-08-04}}
|Anastasia Niklas
|24
|{{Flag|Ukraine}}
|Unknown
|24-year-old Anastasia Niklas lit herself on fire in [[Zaporizhia]], Ukraine, outside a catholic church in the center of the city.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Woman commits act of self-immolation near Catholic Church in Zaporizhzhia|url=https://spzh.news/en/news/73662-v-zaporozhyje-zhenshhina-sovershila-akt-samosozhzhenija-vozle-katolicheskoj-cerkvi|website=Union of Orthodox Journalists {{!}} spzh.news/en|access-date=2020-08-04}}</ref> According to a security guard who was on duty, the woman arrived around 4:00 am, doused herself with gasoline, and lit herself on fire. Her motives remain unknown, she died on the spot.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Самоспалення жінки у Запоріжжі: стали відомі подробиці|url=https://ua.korrespondent.net/city/zaporozhye/4260305-samospalennia-zhinky-u-zaporizhzhi-staly-vidomi-podrobytsi|work=Корреспондент.net|date=2020-08-05|access-date=2020-08-06|language=uk}}</ref>
|-
|August 14, 2020
|Fikret Güven
|
|{{Flag|Turkey}}
|Economical issues
|A tea maker set himself on fire in front of the [[Bursa]] governorship after the police closed the roads to his shop.
<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://halktv.com.tr/bursali-esnaf-kendini-atese-verdi-1-431767h|title = Erdoğan ne demişti?}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/tezgahi-elinden-alinan-esnaf-kendini-valilik-onunde-yakti-1758282|title = Tezgahı elinden alınan esnaf kendini valilik önünde yaktı}}</ref>
|-
|September 18, 2020
|Syarhei Radchenya
|36
|{{flagicon|Belarus}} [[Belarus]]
|Fraudulent election and follow-on police abuse and brutality against [[2020 Belarusian protests|protests]] in Belarus.
|36-year-old Syarhei Radchenya set himself on fire in [[Smalyavichy|Smalavichy]], Belarus, near the local police department. According to the press service of the [[Ministry of Internal Affairs (Belarus)|Ministry of Internal Affairs]], Syarhei poured gasoline over himself from a canister and set it on fire after which an employee ran out of the district department building and put out the fire. Syarhei was hospitalized in critical condition with burns on 84% of his body surface, including the respiratory tract. He died on September 25, 2020, as a result of his injuries.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Belarusian who committed self-immolation act passes away in Minsk|url=https://belsat.eu/en/news/belarusian-who-committed-self-immolation-act-passes-away-in-minsk/|access-date=2020-10-26|website=belsat.eu|language=en}}</ref>
|-
|October 2, 2020
|[[Irina Slavina (journalist)|Irina Slavina]]
|47
|{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Russia]]
| Journalist; her apartment was searched the day before by the police alleging her ties to the [[Open Russia]] group
|Russian journalist [[Irina Slavina (journalist)|Irina Slavina]] set herself on fire in front of the Interior Ministry office in [[Nizhniy Novgorod]]. She has died there of the resulting burns.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Russian journalist dies after setting herself on fire outside government building |url=https://nypost.com/2020/10/02/russian-journalist-dies-after-setting-herself-on-fire-in-front-of-government-building/|access-date=2020-10-02|website=NY Post|date=October 2, 2020|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/10/03/blame-the-russian-federation |title='Blame the Russian Federation' Journalist Irina Slavina's self-immolation came after years of constant pressure from the authorities |website=meduza.io |date=3 October 2020 }}</ref>
|-
|February 12, 2021
|Halil S.
|
|{{flagu|Germany}}
|Against the detention conditions of [[Abdullah Öcalan]]
|He set himself on fire in front of the [[Landtag]] in [[Dresden]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Selbstanzündung in Dresden: Rund 150 bei Kundgebung|url=https://www.saechsische.de/dresden/lokales/mann-steht-am-elbufer-in-flammen-5378581-plus.html|access-date=2021-02-17|website=www.saechsische.de|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Mann zündete sich vor Landtag an: Bekennerschreiben von PKK-Anhänger aufgetaucht|url=https://www.tag24.de/dresden/mann-zuendete-sich-vor-saechsischem-landtag-an-fuehrt-die-spur-zur-pkk-1841924|access-date=2021-03-23|website=TAG24|language=de}}</ref>
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|April 12, 2021
|Itzik Saidyan
|26
|{{flagu|Israel}}
|Government treatment of disabled veterans
|He set himself on fire in front of the Defense Ministry's rehabilitation department offices in [[Petah Tikva]] that handles the rehabilitation of injured soldiers,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Winer |first1=Stuart |last2=Gross |first2=Judah Ari |title=PTSD-afflicted IDF veteran still critical after setting himself alight |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/ptsd-afflicted-idf-veteran-still-critical-after-setting-himself-alight/ |access-date=13 April 2021 |work=The Times of Israel}}</ref> two days before the [[Yom HaZikaron|annual Memorial Day]]. Saidian fought in the 2014 war in Gaza, [[Operation Protective Edge]], and suffers from [[post-traumatic stress disorder]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Disabled Israeli army veteran sets himself on fire ahead of Memorial Day |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-disabled-israeli-army-veteran-sets-himself-on-fire-ahead-of-memorial-day-1.9706402 |work=Haaretz.com |language=en}}</ref>
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|January 1, 2022
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|{{flagu|Australia}}
|Vaccine ID and mandates
|He set himself on fire on Church St. in [[Richmond, Victoria]], sustaining life-threatening injuries. The man was stopped by paramedics and police.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Van Homrich |first1=Michael |title=Melbourne man set himself on fire after shouting about vaccine mandates |url=https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/melbourne-man-set-himself-on-fire-after-shouting-about-vaccine-mandates/news-story/1fc6f8a95bc99359a2e527c28d333f51 |access-date=4 January 2022 |work=[[News.com.au]] |date=2 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220103015653/https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/melbourne-man-set-himself-on-fire-after-shouting-about-vaccine-mandates/news-story/1fc6f8a95bc99359a2e527c28d333f51 |archive-date=3 January 2022|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sadler |first1=Rachel |title=Melbourne man suffers life-threatening injuries after setting himself on fire while yelling about COVID-19 vaccine mandates |url=https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/01/melbourne-man-suffers-life-threatening-injuries-after-setting-himself-on-fire-while-yelling-about-covid-19-vaccine-mandates.html |access-date=4 January 2022 |work=[[Newshub]] |date=2 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102042028/https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/01/melbourne-man-suffers-life-threatening-injuries-after-setting-himself-on-fire-while-yelling-about-covid-19-vaccine-mandates.html |archive-date=2 January 2022|url-status=live}}</ref>
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|January 31, 2022
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|{{flagu|Italy}}
|Unknown
|Man of unknown identity set himself on fire in front of a Carabinieri barrack [[Rende, Calabria]], sustaining life-threatening injuries. Local police and man's family confirm man was twice vaccinated and self-immolation was not due to the vaccine mandate.
<ref>{{cite news| url=https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-142875864206 |title=Video of man on fire in Italy not related to vaccine mandates
|publisher=The Associated Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-italy-rende-idUSL1N2UF1RY |title=Fact Check-‘Man on fire’ video from Italy has nothing to do with COVID-19 vaccine mandates |publisher=Reuters News Agency}}</ref>
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|February 25, 2022
|[[Tsewang Norbu]]
|25
|{{flag| China}}
|[[Human rights in Tibet#Human rights in post-1950 Tibet|Political situation in Tibet]]
|Popular Tibetan singer from Nangchu. Self-immolated in front of the Potala Palace in Lhasa. Died in the hospital a few days later.
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|April 22, 2022
|[[Wynn Bruce]]
|54
|{{flag| United States}}
|Protesting climate change inaction<ref name="WynnNewsAU">{{Cite web|title=Man dies after setting himself on fire outside court on Earth Day|date=April 24, 2022|url=https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/man-dies-after-setting-himself-on-fire-outside-court-on-earth-day/news-story/ba329855bdaa9a049bbb35654322ec4e|access-date=2022-04-24}}</ref>
|Man from Boulder, Colorado self-immolated in front of the Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. Died from injuries.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Boulder man dies after setting himself on fire outside U.S. Supreme Court, police say|date= April 23, 2022 |access-date=April 24, 2022| url=https://www.denverpost.com/2022/04/23/wynn-bruce-boulder-supreme-court-fire-death/}}</ref> Described himself as a Buddhist and climate activist.<ref name="WynnNewsAU" />
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|May 18, 2022
|[[Krishanpal]]
|52
|{{flag| India }}
|Police inaction
|He set himself ablaze outside an SSP office alleging police inaction over a complaint he filed against some people for destroying his crops.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Farmer Dies In Hospital Day After He Set Himself On Fire In UP |url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/farmer-dies-in-hospital-day-after-he-set-himself-on-fire-in-up-2989991 |access-date=2022-05-20 |website=NDTV.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Badaun farmer dies a day after self-immolation outside SSP officeNews JANI |url=https://newsjani.com/badaun-farmer-dies-a-day-after-self-immolation-outside-ssp-office-news-jani/ |access-date=2022-05-20 |language=en-US}}</ref>
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== See also ==
* [[2011 Algerian self-immolations]]
* [[Self-immolation protests by Tibetans in China]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160119111907/http://thespeaker.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/The-Self-Immolators.pdf "The Self Immolators"] – a chronological list of biographies and last statements of known self immolators 1967 to 2013

[[Category:Suicides by self-immolation| ]]
[[Category:Lists of people by cause of death|self-immolations]]
[[Category:Buddhist martyrs]]

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List of political self-immolations