Popular Tibetan singer Tsewang Norbu dies of self-immolation protest

Re:Popular Tibetan singer Tsewang Norbu dies of self-immolat... by werewolf on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @01:47PM (#30688459)

I believe many "Czechoslovaks" feel with Tibet and also Ukraine these days. For those interested in history of "living torches" fighting for freedom:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Palach

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Re:Popular Tibetan singer Tsewang Norbu dies of self-immolat... by CyanBird on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:36PM (#30691260)

Yeah, the cases of normal US citizens lighting themselves on fire to protest against the war in Vietnam was jarring, they would also do it right in front of the White House or other centers of US power

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Self-immolations_in...

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Re:Popular Tibetan singer Tsewang Norbu dies of self-immolat... by iancmceachern on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @11:15PM (#30694953)

Thank you for posting this. It's history about my own country that I didn't know.

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Re:Popular Tibetan singer Tsewang Norbu dies of self-immolat... by soco on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @01:52PM (#30688538)

In communist Romania, 2 March 1988... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liviu_Cornel_Babe%C8%99

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Re:Popular Tibetan singer Tsewang Norbu dies of self-immolat... by Claude_Shannon on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:14PM (#30689850)

And in Soviet-occupied Poland... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Siwiec

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Re:Popular Tibetan singer Tsewang Norbu dies of self-immolat... by marius_k on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:48PM (#30691476)

Romas Kalanta in Lithuania 1972. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romas_Kalanta

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