Editing Death by burning (section)

===Cases from the Middle East and Indian subcontinent===
Immolation was a common execution method for Armenian children, particularly orphans, with [[Ottoman Army (1861–1922)|Ottoman troops]] during the [[Armenian genocide]].<ref>[https://medium.com/illumination-curated/the-children-were-burnt-alive-317d153678de The Children Were Burnt Alive]</ref> Armenian children would be herded into a building to a secluded area outside the city in batches, doused in gasoline, and lit on fire. This practice took place in [[Deir ez-Zor camps|Der Zor]], [[Harpoot|Kharpert]] and [[Diyarbakır|Diarbekir]] provinces, and most infamously, at a German run orphanage in [[Muş|Mush]].<ref>[http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/online_exhibition_3.php Armenian Children Victims of Genocide]</ref> 

[[Graham Staines|Dr Graham Stuart Staines]], an Australian Christian [[missionary]], and his two sons Philip (aged ten) and Timothy (aged six), were burnt to death by a gang while the three slept in the family car (a station wagon), at [[Manoharpur]] village in [[Keonjhar|Keonjhar District, Odisha, India]] on 22 January 1999. Four years later, in 2003, a [[Bajrang Dal]] activist, [[Dara Singh (Hindu nationalist)|Dara Singh]], was convicted of leading the gang that murdered Staines and his sons, and was sentenced to life in prison. Staines had worked in Odisha with the tribal poor and [[leprosy|lepers]] since 1965. Some Hindu groups made allegations that Staines had forcibly converted or lured many Hindus into [[Christianity]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/264326.stm|title=Missionary widow continues leprosy work|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=27 January 1999|access-date=14 April 2021}}</ref><ref>''Sangvi'' (1999) [http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/feb/08vir.htm A Kill Before Dying]</ref>

On 19 June 2008, the [[Taliban]], at Sadda, [[Lower Kurram]], Pakistan, burned three truck drivers of the [[Turi (Pashtun tribe)|Turi]] tribe alive after attacking a convoy of trucks en route from [[Kohat]] to [[Parachinar]], possibly for supplying the [[Pakistan Armed Forces]].{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

In January 2015, Jordanian pilot [[Moaz al-Kasasbeh]] was burned in a cage by the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]] (ISIS). The pilot was captured when his plane crashed near [[Raqqa]], Syria, during a mission against IS in December 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31121160|title=Jordanian pilot 'burned alive' by IS|date=3 February 2015|access-date=20 October 2018|publisher=[[BBC News]]}}</ref> This became known on 4 February 2015 after ISIS published a 22-minute video online showing the burning of a Jordanian pilot.<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 February 2015 |title=Burned Alive: ISIS Video Purports to Show Murder of Jordanian Pilot |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-uncovered/burned-alive-isis-video-purports-show-murder-jordanian-pilot-n299361 |access-date=22 February 2024 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Woolf |first=Nicky |date=4 February 2015 |title=Fox News site embeds unedited Isis video showing brutal murder of Jordanian pilot |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/04/fox-news-shows-isis-video-jordan-pilot |access-date=22 February 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

In August 2015, ISIS burned to death four Iraqi [[Shia]] prisoners.<ref>{{cite news|title=Isis releases graphic video showing four men burning alive in 'act of vengeance'|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-releases-graphic-video-showing-four-shia-spies-being-burned-alive-in-anbar-iraq-10479626.html|work=The Independent|date=31 August 2015}}</ref>

In December 2016, [[Murders of Sefter Taş and Fethi Şahin|ISIS burned to death two Turkish soldiers]],<ref>{{cite news|title=ISIL video shows 'Turkish soldiers burned alive'|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/isil-burns-turkish-soldiers-alive-shocking-video-161223035619947.html|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=23 December 2016}}</ref> publishing video of the atrocity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://heavy.com/news/2016/12/new-isis-islamic-state-amaq-news-cross-shield-syrian-arab-army-russian-turkey-turkish-soldiers-burned-to-death-execution-wilayat-halab-aleppo-syria-video/|title= New ISIS Video Burns 2 Caged Turkish Soldiers to Death in Aleppo|publisher=Heavy|date=22 December 2016|author=S. J. Prince|format=video}} The victims are shown burning to death in the last three minutes of the film.</ref>