A TIBETAN protester set
himself on fire 23/11/2006
outside the hotel of visiting
Chinese president Hu Jintao in
Mumbai.

The protester - who said his
name was Lhakpa - poured
kerosene on himself and set it
alight, shouting 'Free Tibet'
and 'Hu is a killer' as police
tried to douse the flames.

Hu was in the hotel a
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A TIBETAN protester set
himself on fire 23/11/2006
outside the hotel of visiting
Chinese president Hu Jintao in
Mumbai.

The protester - who said his
name was Lhakpa - poured
kerosene on himself and set it
alight, shouting 'Free Tibet'
and 'Hu is a killer' as police
tried to douse the flames.

Hu was in the hotel at the
time, preparing to address a
meeting of business leaders on
the last day of his four-day
India visit aimed at boosting
political and economic ties.

Protesters jostled with police
before being bundled away to a
nearby police station.

Elsewhere, about 200 Tibetans
and their Indian supporters
protested against what they
called 'the massacre of
innocent Tibetans' fleeing
their homeland.

In September, European
mountaineers filmed Chinese
soldiers shooting at a group
of 75 Tibetans and killing at
least one of them as they fled
across a Himalayan mountain
pass into Nepal

Category Travel & Places

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