Myanmar man in critical condition after self-immolation - diplomats

gusMar 24th, 2008 - 00:13:58

Taking one's own life as well as self-immolation is a taboo in Burma where people do not believe in penance and are superstitious about suicide repeating 500 times in 5 different worlds in the cycle of birth and rebirths. It had to be only in extremis that it should ever happen. They say it can never be darker than midnight, it is now.

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