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Manish Swarup / AP
A Tibetan man screams as he runs engulfed in flames after self-immolating at a protest in New Delhi, India, ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to the country Monday, March 26, 2012. The Tibetan activist lit himself on fire at the gathering and was rushed to hospital with unknown injuries, reports said.
Reuters reports:A Tibetan man set himself on fire in New Delhi on Monday at a protest against a visit by Chinese president Hu Jintao, who is due to arrive in India later this week for a summit meeting.
Thirty Tibetans have set themselves on fire, mostly in southwestern China, in the past year to protest against Chinese rule in Tibet, according to Tibetan rights groups. At least 20 of them have died.
Update 7:37am ET, Wednesday: The man, Jamphel Yeshi, 27 has dies from his injuries according to the general secretary of the Tibetan Youth Congress.
Adnan Abidi / Reuters
Tibetan exiles try to douse the flames from their comrade, Jamphel Yeshi, after he set himself on fire during a protest against the upcoming visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to India in New Delhi March 26, 2012. Hu is scheduled to attend the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summit in India on March 29.
Adnan Abidi / Reuters
Jamphel Yeshi, a Tibetan exile, is taken to hospital after he sets himself on fire during a protest against the upcoming visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to India in New Delhi March 26, 2012. Hu is scheduled to attend the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summit in India on March 29.
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So will this stop Jintao from coming? Jeez, what a fool.
the stupid people taking pictures should have put their cameras down & tried to put out the fire!! wth??
gemini-5132302 Why, to injure themselves? He knew what he was doing, fire burns. I have no sympathy for these savages.
If you want to help Tibet's cause, kill a Chinese soldier, get his weapon and start a revolution.
What a dumb ass! Setting yourself on fire does not influence the Chinese leaders. The Chinese dont care! Just being in a group, and trying your best to change things, is about all you can do. Do not set yourself on fire! It will only cost you and your family the hospital bills. And for what?
india is over-crowded anyway, and i think this is just a fad!
Dan is so dum what does india has to do with this people setting themself on fire
After Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bombings and Japanese surrender, Mao-dze-dung's communist red china military got massive stashes of Japanese arms. Did they use them against Japan? NO!! They used them to attack Tibet and Tibetans. Japanese atrocities committed against the chinese was just an educational process used by communist red china military against Tibet and Tibetans. In addition, they flooded Tibet with millions of chinese workers, making Tibetans minorities within their own country (Japan didn't do this in conquered territories). South china tiger has been annihilated- its body parts were used in chinese medicine. Next - communist red china moved to South of china to endanger the Tibetans who are the next target. Tibet's gold, minerals, land, timber, rivers and magnificent Himalayas have been raided and are being sucked out by china. What Mao-dze-dung's successors of communist red china are saying regarding ownership of Tibet is similar to what communist USSR leaders and the Tsars said about Turkestan, Armenia, Georgia etc (formerly of USSR) being under control of historic Russia. Russia backed off and freed them. European colonial powers freed their colonies after WWII. The same should be done by china for Tibet (but will they??). China, leave Tibet NOW, your atrocities are showing!!
FLAME ON
Was that Hollywood camera trick, like Nicolas Cage in the Ghost Rider.
I am begging all comemtators that make fun out of this is not funny, he set him on fire for the World to know that their Country needed to be FREE.
Tibet is free.
i concur your request but there are humans who act like animals and will post derogatory comment......wondering if they Will have guts to post similar opinion again other countries and similar negative comment against Chinese it's a man's job and takes a real man to be fair and truth-full....since Tibetans are very religious non violent people.......
Tibet is not free, von Dufus.
That's gonna leave a mark!
world community needs to help non violent Tibetans.....ruthless Chinese will one day dominate the world, their aim hooks or crooks let's make the world dance the way we want.....they already owe 355 or of US treasury bills......keep on buying Chinese products ???
For those insensitive people who ridicule this act,I would like to say that they are living in total ignorance about the situation in Tibet. The Chinese have annexen Tibet nd have tried to extinguish the Tibetan culture and Buddhism itself. The Dalai Lama had to leave Tibet in fear of losing his life. From his home in exile in Dharmsala India, he has relinquished his role as the political leader of Tibet and has encouraged his countrymen to avoid all violence against the occupiing Chinese.
Those Tibetans who have practiced self immolation are giving their lives without harming others.This is the ultimate act of selflessness and should not be mocked.As an American Buddhist,I feel that this man was giving his life as a gesture of compassion for the suffering of his people.
It is a tragic situation that a man has to take his own life because the Tibetan cause has been largely ignored by the rest of the world including the United Nations.
My response to those who mock this act is the reminder "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country"-----Nathan Hale. Would Americans mock him? They would not be called Americans if it were not for people like Mr.Hale. Therefore, think of these suffering Tibetans and feel compassion instead of disdain.
Exactly! Well said.
Ignorance is a rapidly spreading disease,your insight is a step towards a cure.
Well now, I suppose that Hu Jintao got a big kick out of that, somehow I don't see him canceling the rest of the trip. What were you thinking? The monks are very spritual men and this is very sad indeed. Thay could probably do much better if thay had hit him in the face with a donkey poop pie. If you kill yourself the commie bast-rds win. Hello!
Dan, Spencer, Romilio, Bebop, etc... it's idiots like you that explain why the rest of the world hates Americans. Clarence... read the above... Yeshi is a very noble person, who gave his life so that the world (not the idiots, of course) would take notice. A donkey poop pie would only get the thrower killed, and no one would even know. I am so humbled by this man's (and the sixty others) sacrifice, and anyone who is not... is human garbage.