Record
SI-015
Date
Place
Outside the Chinese embassy, New Delhi, India
Country
In exile · India
Age
25
Outcome
Survived Survived with minor injuries (ICT).
Other spellings
Sherap Tsedor

What happened

According to ICT, Sherab Tsedor, 25, stepped off a public bus outside the Chinese embassy in New Delhi on 4 November 2011 and set fire to himself while shouting slogans against China’s presence in Tibet. Police at the scene put out the flames at once, and he survived with minor injuries.

Reported words

For me, it was a failure because I’m still alive… I would be ready to do it again. That is how strongly I feel about the situation there in Tibet.

The Guardian, 13 January 2012, quoted in the ICT fact sheet

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