To examine sociodemographic correlates of views of self-immolation, the authors carried out semi-structured interviews with 54 Kurdish refugees. The majority of these refugees indicated that they did not expect self-immolations to help in obtaining freedom for Kurdistan. Their opinions on the issue were uniform across educational & occupational levels, gender, number of years since escape, & other sociodemographic variables, except age. Younger refugees were less likely to see self-immolation as politically effective. (8 refs)