Record
SI-002
Date
Place
In front of the Taj Hotel, Mumbai, India (unconfirmed)
Country
In exile · India
Affiliation
President, Regional Tibetan Youth Congress, Bangalore
Outcome
Outcome unknown Taken to hospital with severe injuries (ICT); the ICT entry does not state his later condition. (unconfirmed)

What happened

According to ICT, Lhakpa Tsering, president of the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress in Bangalore, set fire to himself on 23 November 2006 in protest at a visit to India by China’s then leader Hu Jintao. ICT reported that he called for a free Tibet in front of the Taj Hotel in Mumbai before security personnel put out the flames and took him to hospital.

Labelled unconfirmed: place, outcome. The sources differ or do not confirm these details; both versions are kept in the record.

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