Thursday, January 29, 2009

Sri Lanka: Chennai man in suicide protest over Tamil plight...

A 31-year-old man committed suicide in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu Thursday to highlight the suffering of members of the Tamil ethnic minority caught in the war in Sri Lanka, news reports said.

The man doused himself with kerosene and set himself on fire while chanting pro-Tamil slogans outside a federal government office complex in the state capital, Chennai, the CNN-IBN network reported.

He was moved to a nearby government hospital with burns over 75 per cent of his body and died shortly after being admitted. More...

See also:

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  3. Sri Lanka: Life after 25 years...
  4. LHC: fearing end of the world, girl in India commits suicide...

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