Tibet protester sets himself alight in Nepal: police

[ellisonz]

Source: AFP

By Frankie Taggart | AFP – 11 hrs ago

A Tibetan exile chanting anti-China slogans briefly set himself on fire in Nepal on Thursday before fellow protesters put out the flames, police said.

Since March there has been a series of self-immolations by Buddhist monks and nuns in southwest China, but police in Kathmandu said Thursday's staged protest was not a suicide bid.

The demonstrator wrapped himself in a Tibetan flag and lit himself as his companions stood by ready to extinguish the fire, Shyam Gyawali, deputy superintendent of Kathmandu police, told AFP.

"A Tibetan man, who was 25 or 26 and dressed in monk's clothing, wrapped himself with a Tibetan flag and chanted slogans saying 'Long live free Tibet' and he took out a lighter and set himself on fire," Gyawali said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/tibetan-protester-sets-himself-alight-nepal-063754430.html

[applegrove]

1. Oh the poor guy. Poor family too. I used to think Tibet would one day be free now I'm not so sure.

[ellisonz]

2. One day...

"We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination." - John F. Kennedy

The history of China is pre-dominantly one of internal revolution.

[awoke_in_2003]

3. when the monks start immolating...

themselves, you know things are bad.