Four Set Themselves on Fire in Armenia

This story is actually a few days old, but so shocking that I feel the need to publish it regardless.

The protesters poured gasoline on themselves and set themselves on fire in front of the president's office in Yerevan, the teenagers' great uncle Surian Avdalian told The Associated Press. The grandmother and her 14-year-old grandson were injured and hospitalized with burns, Avdalian said. The other two teens were unharmed.

The four were members of the small Yazidi community who were protesting what they called official inaction in last month's beating death of the children's father, Avdalian said. They argued that the case was not being investigated because of discrimination against the Yazidi, a Kurdish ethnic group. About 50,000 Yazidi live in Armenia.

Source here.