self-immolation

• Video Of Moroccan Protestors Setting Themselves On Fire Emerges

  20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

  We reported earlier today on the protests currently happening in Morocco. Protestors are dissatisfied at the lack of jobs in the country, particularly for university graduates – resorting to self-immolation. Associated Press has now procured a cellphone video that has captured the entire thing – from dousing themselves to catching fire. Full video after the jump.

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  Moroccan Men Set Themselves Alight In Unemployment Protest

  20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

  Do you know what self-immolation is? It’s the rather rare practice of setting oneself on fire to show how strongly you feel about something. Go figure. In the Middle East and North Africa though, it’s become more commonplace ever since a Tunisian vegetable seller did it to protest police harrassment, evoking an uprising at the end of 2010.

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