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Latest France Telecom Suicide Sets Self Afire

Apr 27, 2011 2:31 AM CDT

France Telecom Worker Sets Self on Fire

Father of 4 dies in parking lot

(Newser) - The years 2008 and 2009 saw more than 30 suicides at France Telecom, and now, another: A 57-year-old man set himself ablaze in a company parking lot, reports the BBC . The victim was the father of four and had been repeatedly transferred at the company where he worked for some...

Tibetan Monk Self Immolates to Protest China's Rule

Tibet Monk Sets Self on Fire to Protest Chinese Rule

Mar 16, 2011 11:19 AM CDT

Tibet Monk Sets Self on Fire to Protest Chinese Rule

Self-immolation sets off protests

(Newser) - A Tibetan monk set off a protest today in western China by setting himself on fire, according to a group campaigning for Tibetan independence. The monk, a 21-year-old from an ethnically Tibetan part of Sichuan province, “immolated himself today in protest against the crackdown,” the International Campaign for...

Protester Sets Self on Fire
in Senegal

Feb 18, 2011 11:57 AM CST

Protester Sets Self on Fire in Senegal

It's the latest self-immolation in Africa

(Newser) - A man set himself on fire in front of the presidential palace in Senegal today in the latest self-immolation on the African continent. He's being treated at a hospital, and his motive isn't known. The mutiny in Tunisia that ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was touched...

Second Cairo Protester Sets Himself on Fire

Jan 18, 2011 9:14 AM CST

Second Cairo Protester Sets Himself on Fire

Self-immolation copycats inspired by Tunisian

(Newser) - Setting yourself on fire has officially caught on in Northern Africa. A second Egyptian man set himself ablaze outside the prime minister’s office today in Cairo, a day after another Egyptian man, and several in Algeria and Mauritania, did the same thing . This time the burning man was a...

North Africa Sees Wave
of Fiery Copycat Suicides

Jan 17, 2011 12:44 PM CST

North Africa Sees Wave of Fiery Copycat Suicides

Egypt, Algeria and Mauritania all see self-immolations as in Tunisia

(Newser) - A restaurant owner screaming anti-government slogans set himself on fire outside the Egyptian parliament in Cairo today, in the latest of several attempted self-immolations mimicking the one that set off Tunisia’s uprising last month. But security officials, with the help of passing motorists, doused the blaze with fire-extinguishers, thwarting...