"If, upon seeing a man self-immolate to protest a genocide that’s been live-streamed to the world for 143 days, your reaction is to criticise or dismiss, you simply do not understand the gravity of his act or the magnitude of what he is protesting—and in doing so you become a part of the very problem his defiant act rejected.....This act, as devastating as it is, is a final, defiant scream in protest at the incalculable tyranny of an Empire that has entirely lost touch with
humanity. Don’t become that, too. Don’t downplay, dismiss or criticise the person who makes the sacrifice in an attempt to stop tyranny—for you then become a part of that tyranny yourself."
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