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The Self Immolators --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 2013 Feb. Day Blakely Donaldson The book can be discussed and downloaded at: http://thespeaker.co/book-the-self-immolators-2013-day-blakely- donaldson/ 2 The Self Immolators 3 Preface This book was meant to be without a preface (or introduction) or Table of Contents. Please read it last if anything, and then comment or write in the book, and then let them be just another set of comments. This book was meant to be simply and regularly, the biographies and testimonies of the self immolators. I wrote it after coming across a self immolation that referred to three others. Could there be so many? It remained a line on a page of notes I was adding to and sometimes getting to one or another. A month or more later, I addressed the note, that still stood out, and looked it up. Investigating the self immolator and his reference to three others, or being among three such, I found more, and looking into those, more, until it was dozens. The source of information I thought should didn't exist in a book or anywhere online, and I just began to write it, naturally and as a stream. As I collected and searched out, and wrote the biographies and copied or translated the testaments and statements, it turned out there were more still, until it was hundreds and the book reached the size it is. I wrote and edited it in about a month in spring 2013, and continued to discover and add--and some added themselves, Tibetans continued to self immolate while I wrote--until I stopped writing. I then learned to and printed and bound the book over the next week or two, and sent several copies off. The book is meant to stand like a book of poetry, I think. I hoped and though it would be given away freely, and written in. I did not see it as a shelf book, or ever resting. It could also be used as a university or other course book, I thought and think. The focal idea is one that relates and ties in many disparate and important ideas. What is it, that a person--people--will lose their own lives willingly and in a way that is the greatest sin proscribed by their religeon-- Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism? What is self immolation, as opposed to violent action? What is it compared to more silent sacrifice? What is it that one person self immolated? Every self immolation in this book can be related directly or through steps--other self immolations--to this first. Why does it manifest exactly in every region and people? What are the particular colors given by each culture and time? and do you recall in every entry the periods and regional histories of our 20th and early 21st centuries? What is the stress? What is the cause? 4 What is protest? and why do we protest? What is fighting and sacrifice? I hoped this book would be read and discussed, discussed while reading or taken up and discussed when people got together, and commented on. Comment on this book and pass it on, and talk to that person about it. I have written this preface and table of contents to make the book more accessible and to be more read by other people, DBD, Sept. 16, 2014 Thanks to my E for compiling the table of contents. 5 Contents Thich Quang Duc Saigon, South Vietnam 1963 Le (Thitch Mguyen Huong) Phan Thiet, Vietnam 1963 Thich Thanh Tuck Vietnam 1963 Dieti Quang Ninh Hoa, Vietnam 1963 Thich Tieu Hue, South Vietnam 1963 Kizappazuvur Chinnasamy Trichy, India 1964 Kodambakkam Sivalingam Chennai, India 1965 Virugambakkam Aranganathan Chennai, India 1965 Ayampalayam Veerappan India 1965 Satyamangalam Muthu India 1965 Mayavaram Sarangapani India 1965 Keeranoor Muthu India 1965 Alice Herz Detriot, USA 1965 Huh Jik Seoul 1965 Norman Morrison Baltimore, USA 1965 Roger Allen Laporte NY, USA 1965 Celene Jankowsi South Bend, In 1965 Hiroko Hayasaki San Diego, Ca 1965 Thich Nu Thanh Quang Hue, South Vietnam 1966 Ho Thi Thieu Saigon, South Vietnam 1966 Thich Nu Vinh Ngoc Vietnam 1966 Nguyen Thi Van Hue, South Vietnam 1966 Thich Du Dien Dinh Da Nang 1966 Thich Nu Bao Luan Vietnam 1966 Dieu Nu Vietnam 1966 Not Reported Vietnam 1966 Nhat (Phat) Chi Mai Saigon, South Vietnam 1967 Thich Nu Tri Vietnam 1967 Not Reported Vietnam 1967 Florence Beaumont LA, Ca 1967 Thich Nu Hue Vietnam 1967 Thich Nu Thuong Vietnam 1967 Eric Thoen Sunnyvale, Ca 1967 Ronald W. Brazee Syracuse, NY 1968 Ryszard Siwiec Poland 1968 Vasyl Makukh Ukraine 1968 Jan Palach Czechoslovakia 1969 Miroslav Malinka Brno, Switzerland 1969 Josef Hlavaty Czechoslovakia 1969 Sandor Bauer Hungary 1969 Mykola Bereslavsky Kiev 1969 Jan Zajic Czechloslovakia 1969 Evzen Plocek Jihlava, Czechloslovakia 1969 Eliyahu Rips Riga 1969 Marton Moyses Romania 1970 George Winne Jr. San Diego, Ca 1970 Thich Nu Lien Tap Vietnam 1970 Hin Chi Yeung NY,NY 1970 Kostas Georgakis Greece 1970 6 Joseba Elosegi Spain 1970 Chun Taeil Seoul, South Korea 1970 Nguyen Thi Co Vietnam 1971 Thich Nu Tinh Nhuan Vietnam 1971 Nguyen Minnh Dang Saigon, South Vietnam 1971 Thich Nu Tinh Cuong Vietnam 1971 Romas Kalanta Kaunas, Lithuania 1972 V. Stonys Verena 1972 Anrius Andiuskevicius Kaunas, Lithuania 1972 Joseph Baracevicius Siauliai, Lithuania 1972 Huguette Gaulin Montreal, Canada 1972 Thich Nu Dien Han Vietnam 1972 Thich Nu Du Dieu Vietnam 1974 Le Guang Do Vietnam 1974 Not Reported Vietnam 1974 Antanas Kalinauskas Soviet Union 1976 Oskar Brusewitz Germany 1976 Alain Escoffier Paris, France 1977 Hartmut Grundler Germany 1977 Oleska Mykhaylovych Hirnyk Ukraine 1978 Musa Mamut Soviet Union 1978 Lynette Phillips Geneva, Switzerland 1978 Pamela Evans Cooper Windsor, England 1978 Unknown Red Square, Moscow 1980 Per-Axel Arosenius Sweden 1981 Artin Penik Turkey 1982 Sebastian Acevado Becerra Chile 1983 Hong Ki Il Kwangju, Korea 1985 Lee Kyung Hwan Seoul 1986 Lee Jong Su Seoul 1986 Cheng Nan-Jung Taiwan 1989 Nam Tae Hyun Seoul 1989 Chan I-Hua Taiwan 1989 Liviu Cornel Babes Romania 1989 Vytautas Viciulus Lithuania 1989 Kailash Pawar India 1989 Stanislovas Zemaitus Moscow 1990 Rimantas Daugintis Soviet Union 1990 Rajiv Goswami Delhi 1990 Identity Not Released Isleton, Ca 1990 Gregory Levey Amherst, Ma 1991 Raymond Moules Springfield, Ma 1991 Park Seung Hee South Korea 1991 Kim Young Kyun Andong, South Korea 1991 Chun Sae Yong South Korea 1991 Kim Ki Sul Seoul 1991 Yoon Yong Ha South Korea 1991 Lee Jeong Sun South Korea 1991 Kim Chol Su Bosong, South Korea 1991 Cha Tae Kwon Kwangju, Korea 1991 7 Chung Sang Sun Kwangju, Korea 1991 Giorgi Abesadze Georgia 1991 Graham Bamford London 1993 Homa Darabi Iran 1994 Reinhold Elstner Germany 1995 Sabine Kratze Ho Chi Minh 1995 Kathy Change Pennsylvania, Pa 1996 Alfredo Ormando Rome 1998 Thubten Ngodup New Dehli 1998 Nejla Coskum London 1999 Mandeep Pal Singh Sodhi Lucknow, India 2000 Jairam Lucknow, India 2000 Bharat Rao Gujarat, India 2000 Liu Chunling, Liu Siying, Wang Jindong,Tiananmen Hao Huijun, Square Chen Guo, Liu Baorong,2001 Liu Yunfang Shahraz Kayani Australia 2001 HO TAN ANH Danang, Vietnam 2002 Eduardo Mino Chile 2001 Bae Dal Ho Korea 2003 Zdenek Adamec Prague, Czech Republic 2003 Roman Masi Pilzin, Czech Republic 2003 Unknown Czech Republic 2003 Marzieh Babakhani Paris, France 2003 Sedighieh Mohageri Paris, France 2003 Neda Hassani London 2003 Heshmat Zandi London 2003 Hamid Orafa London 2003 Mohannad Vikilifar Paris, France 2003 Nader Sani Paris, France 2003 Mohsen Sharafi Bern, Switzerland 2003 Ali Ghassemi Rome 2003 Weng Biao Nanjing, China 2003 Zhu Zheng Liang Tiananmen Square, Beijing 2003 Yang Peiguan Tiananmen Square, Beijing 2003 Lee Hae Nam Korea 2003 Lee Yong Seok Seoul 2003 Samvel Ambarian Oslo, Norway 2003 Qadri Gul Afghanistan 2003 Mordechai (Hamimo) Cohen Israel 2004 Madina Muhammad Afghanistan 2004 Not Reported Seoul 2004 Jose Antonio Andrade De Souza Brazil 2004 Yelena Businov Israel 2005 Baruch Ben Menahem Israel 2005 Krishan India 2006 Eleftheriya Fortulaki Sepolia, Athens 2006 Rishi Gupta New Dehli 2006 Pravin Joshi Jamngar, India 2006 Identity Not Released Tiananmen Square, Beijing 2006 Roland Weisselberg GDR 2006 Malachai Ritscher Chicago, Ill 2006 8 Fauzia Afghanistan 2007 Uddhav Bhandari Edinburgh 2007 Hee Se-Uk Seoul 2007 Identity Not Released Long Beach, Ca 2007 Jaswinder Singh India 2007 Identity Not Released Yangon, Myanmar 2008 Ramiro Guillen Tapia Mexico 2008 Rosen Markov Bulgaria 2008 Kumar Muthukumar India 2009 Murugathasan Varnakulasingham Switzerland 2009 Tapey Ngaba 2009 Subram Yadaiah Telangana 2010 Eshank Venugopal Reddy Telangana 2010 Nana Pippia Tbilisi, Georgia 2010 Mohamed Bouaziz Tunisia 2010 Mohamed Aouichia Algeria 2011 Mohsen Bouterfif Algeria 2011 Said H. Algeria 2011 Senouci Touat Algeria 2011 Venugopala Reddy Telangana 2011 Bhavani Telangana 2011 Yacoub Ould Dahoud Mauritania 2011 Maamir Lotfi Algeria 2011 Abdo Abdel Hameed Cairo 2011 Abdelhafid Boudechicha Algeria 2011 Mohd Mustafa Telangana 2011 Phuntsog Ngaba 2011 Thomas James Ball Keene County, NH 2011 Tsewang Norbu Tawu 2011 Lobsang Kunchok Ngaba 2011 Lobsang Kelsang Ngaba 2011 Kelsang Wangchuk Ngaba 2011 Kayang Ngaba 2011 Choepel Ngaba 2011 Norbu Damdrul Ngaba 2011 Tenzin Wangmo Ngaba 2011 Mr.Wang Tiananmen Square 2011 Dawa Tsering Kardze 2011 Palden Choetso Tawu 2011 Sherab Tsedor Delhi 2011 Bhutok Kathmandu 2011 Yenesew Gebre Ethiopia 2011 Tenzin Phuntsog Tibet 2011 Sondang Hutagalung Jakarta 2011 Tennyi Ngaba 2012 Tsultrim Ngaba 2012 Sonam Wangyal Tibet 2012 Losang Jamyang Ngaba 2012 Rinzin Dorje Ngaba 2012 Sonam Rabyang Tibet 2012 9 Tenzin Choedron Tibet 2012 Lobsang Gyatso Ngaba 2012 Damchoe Sangpo Tibet
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