I smelled human flesh burning twice in my life. Once faintly in
  2001, on Sept 11th [I lived 7 miles by air from the World Trade
  Center, and the smell of burnt concrete and flesh was
  unmistakable.

  But how did I know the smell of flesh in the first place?

  [1]http://warisacrime.org/.../twenty-years-ago-today...

  Feb 20, 1991. A man set himself on fire "to protest the invasion
  of Iraq" in Amherst, MA. I went to Hampshire College in Amherst
  MA, and it happened just a couple of miles away.

  The smell of HIS body? It was like a sickly sweet smell, and
  there was a blue haze over the entire Hampshire College campus
  for a day or two..

  It was gross.

References

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  1. https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwarisacrime.org%2Fcontent%2Ftwenty-years-ago-today-immolation-revolutions-now-and-ones-come&h=gAQE3tGvH