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Crimean Tatar who committed self-immolation

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Musa Mamut (20 February 1931 – 28 June 1978) was a Crimean Tatar exile who committed self-immolation in protest of the government's refusal to allow right of return. He posthumously became an icon of the Crimean Tatar civil rights movement and is seen as a martyr for the cause.

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"What I did will not be left without a response." —Said on 23 June 1978, the day he committed self-immolation. <small>Source: </small>

"Someone had to do this" —Said on his deathbed. <small>Source: Babenyshev, A. (1982). On Sakharov. Alfred A. Knopf. p. 250</small>