Why Tibet is burning

April 12, 2012 14:01

When Chinese Premier Hu Jintao flew into New Delhi for the Brics Summit recently, he careened onto unfamiliar terrain: a democracy with a free press, where a 27-year-old Tibetan refugee, Jampa Yeshi, walked to a public protest, poured kerosene over his body and set himself on fire whilst shouting for an end to Chinese atrocities in Tibet. The searing images from India of Jampa Yeshi's burning body exposed to the world the cost of China's reign of terror in Tibet, which has been well concealed for 61 years.

That's the editorial on the Deccan Chronicle

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