11-23-2006, 11:14 AM
<b>Hu's Mumbai visit: Tibetan youth attempts self-immolation</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The man and six other Tibetan youths drove up to the hotel in two taxis, jumped out and began chanting slogans against China's occupation of Tibet. He then doused his pants with a liquid and set them on fire, according to an Associated Press photographer at the scene.
Several policemen quickly jumped on the man, rolled him on the ground and doused the flames.
Police took all seven men away.
Mumbai police commissioner AN Roy said the activist was not seriously wounded. "Doctors are monitoring his condition," Roy said.
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<b>Most Tibetans say China has attempted to destroy Tibetan Buddhist culture by flooding Tibet with China's ethnic Han majority. The protesters have singled out Hu, who governed the Tibetan region between 1988 and 1992, saying he had adopted a repressive stance toward the region</b>Â <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Several policemen quickly jumped on the man, rolled him on the ground and doused the flames.
Police took all seven men away.
Mumbai police commissioner AN Roy said the activist was not seriously wounded. "Doctors are monitoring his condition," Roy said.
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<b>Most Tibetans say China has attempted to destroy Tibetan Buddhist culture by flooding Tibet with China's ethnic Han majority. The protesters have singled out Hu, who governed the Tibetan region between 1988 and 1992, saying he had adopted a repressive stance toward the region</b>Â <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->