At approximately 7pm on Monday evening, 78-year old S.K. set himself alight with petrol at a parking lot in the town of Lefkada, in Western Greece. The man died on the spot.
This follows from a tremendous increase in suicides across Greece, and Crete in particular – where also, two days ago (on Saturday night) a homeless man died of the cold in the streets of the city of Chania.
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this is actually the 11th case of self immolation since 2010, with the youngest case being that of a 13 year old girl!
such cases are not given any publicity by the media (in one case, that of an albanian immigrant in Chios, it was just mentioned in the police official internet page) and ofcourse no one knows the names of these martyrs:
4 jan 2010- 27 year old man in Kaisiariani, Athens
2 jun 2010- 50 year old man in a bank in Thessaloniki
14 dec 2010- 50 year old man in front of the Presidential Palace& Megaron Maximou, Athens
22 feb 2011- 49 year old man in a church in Volos
24 jun 2011- 24 year old woman in Patras
7 jun 2011-45 year old man in Karditsa
13 sept 2011- 54 year old man outside of a bank in Thessaloniki
23 sept 2011- 13 year old girl in Kaminia, Athens
20 oct 2011- 43 year old woman in Iracleio, Creta
6 nov 2011- 35 year old man in Chios
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Was this inspired by what happened in Tunisia over a year ago? If so, it’s not the inspiration from North Africa that people should be taking. For one thing Greece has had national class struggle-inspired crises spanning, on and off, almost 40 years, unlike Tunisia. Suicide by self-immolation , given such a history and the development of a community of struggle, saves the state the hassle of a bullet; better to die trying to kill one of the *******s than DIY.
See this interesting, if somewhat badly structured, text called “Suicide or revolution”, admittedly on the now fatally compromised libcon site:
http://libcom.org/blog/suicide-or-revolution-28042011
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