Event
2001 Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident
23 Jan 2001 · 39.90° N, 116.39° E
What the records say
- When
- 23 Jan 2001
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 39.90° N, 116.39° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2001 Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident.
Summary
A self-immolation incident takes place in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, China. Five members of the Falun Gong are alleged to have set themselves on fire, but details surrounding the incident are disputed by Falun Gong sources.
2001 Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident
Incident in Beijing, China
Five people set themselves on fire in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, on the eve of Chinese New Year on 23 January 2001. The incident remains disputed; Chinese government sources identified the five as practitioners of Falun Gong, a religious movement banned in mainland China, and portrayed the self-immolations as evidence of the movement's dangerous nature.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Групповое самосожжение на площади Тяньаньмэнь”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “天安門自焚事件，5人在北京市中心的天安門廣場進行自焚行為。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page