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Vietnamese woman dies in self-immolation protest against China | World news | theguardian.com

Vietnamese woman dies in self-immolation protest against China

State media says 67-year-old set herself alight in front of former presidential palace in protest against Chinese rig in disputed waters

A Vietnamese woman has died after setting herself on fire in downtown Ho Chi Minh City in protest against China's deployment of an oil rig in waters claimed by Hanoi, state media reported.

The 67-year-old woman self-immolated in front of the Reunification Palace around 6am (midnight BST) on Friday, Thanh Nien newspaper reported.

The paper quoted Le Truong Hai Hieu, a top city official, as saying that police had recovered a plastic container thought to contain fuel, a lighter and seven handwritten banners saying among other things: "Demand unity to smash the Chinese invasion plot" and "Support Vietnamese coastguards and fishermen."

China's deployment of the rig on 1 May in the South China Sea triggered fury in Vietnam, which has been feuding with China for years over overlapping claims in the potentially oil- and gas-rich seas. Ships Hanoi sent to confront the rigs have been facing off against Chinese vessels protecting it.

Street protests have also occurred, although Vietnam's authoritarian government clamped down on them after they turned into anti-Chinese riots that left three Chinese nationals dead and damaged scores of foreign-owned factories.

News of the self-immolation spread quickly on the internet. Thanh Nien ran a clip purportedly showing the incident and motorcyclists looking on. The paper said the woman came to the palace by taxi and set herself on fire before guards there could react.

Self-immolations in Vietnam are rare but have been occasionally reported over the years.

In 1963, a Buddhist monk set himself alight at a busy intersection in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. An Associated Press photograph of him won a Pulitzer prize and remains a recognised image today.
 
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anti - China aggressor in Vietnam water slogan.

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Vietnam is really that desperate... encouraging its people to burn them self to death so that foreign newspapers would talk about it...
 
Hope VCP can release the control on demonstration against China, the demonstration and damaging can release their anger.

cowardice chinese , big mouth.


chinese can cry before Japanse in Senkaku only.
The Chinese rig still stay there, and Chinese coast guard ship also in Diaoyu Island, any problem?!
 
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doesnt make sense.
it's not that china has occupied vietnam
 
Their hatred has reach to another level. I don't think that their relation can be normalize again after this.
 
sorry,smartphone.

The self-immolation in Sigon,the purpose is not against China or H981,it is a tool by VN Southern Groups to against Northern VCP.

It looks like anti-China, indeed once again South Vietnamese playing self-immolation game to against their government like in Vietnam War, Some Southern VN groups wanna get more powers from Northern Vietnamese, and they were good at playing self-immolation card to attract more normal Vietnamese supports.

That self-immolation did not affect China and H981 oil rig, indeed affect VN politics and VCP internal conflict. Southern Vietnamese groups using anti-China movements threat VCP power, VN close to color revoluation if there r another riot coming on Southern Vietnam street, maybe anti-VCP movement. The Southern Vietnamese and Groups will anti-China and f@ck pro-China Northern VCP together, to achieve their purpose they need more normal Vietnamese angry and join riots.

BTW i hate to write post on a smartphone!
 
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