Another Denizen of Tamil Nadu burns himself to death

[samv]

Is this part of the culture of Tamil Nadu or something? Seems to happen at the drop of a hat.


Man who burnt self over Rajapaksa visit dies

TNN | Sep 19, 2012, 03.13AM IST


SALEM: An autorickshaw driver who attempted self-immolation in protest against Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's visit to India, died of burn injuries at Salem government hospital on Tuesday.

T Vijay Raj, 26, doused himself with petrol and set himself afire near the old bus stand early Monday morning. In a suicide note, he accused Rajapaksa of being responsible for the death of innocent Tamils in Sri Lanka and the Indian government of aiding him.

Raj's relatives and members of political parties, including MDMK and VCK, refused to allow the hospital to conduct a postmortem on his body. They staged a sit-in protest at the hospital, demanding an FIR against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Police personnel attempted to pacify the protesters but the demonstration continued till late evening.

Seeman, founder of pro-Tamil outfit Nam Thamilar Katchi, visited the hospital and offered his condolences to Raj's family. He said the central government should reconsider the visit of the Sri Lankan president. Talking to reporters, Seeman said the Congress-led central government and the opposition BJP do not empathize with the sentiments of the Tamil people. "Both the BJP and the Congress are rolling out a red carpet to Rajapaksa," he said.

Man who burnt self over Rajapasa visit dies - The Times of India

 

[Skyline]

This happens when someone become blind with their race or religion.
My advice, self-immolation is painful if it stops with half-burn. Use different methods which is not painful that much.

RIP to the poor guy who became victim of politics!

 

[Roybot]

Is this part of the culture of Tamil Nadu or something? Seems to happen at the drop of a hat.

I guess Sri Lankans follow Tamil Nadu culture then?

Tamil war crimes report: Lanka monk threatens self immolation - Indian Express

 

[samv]

And this is not the only one, recently as well:

Woman immolates self, husband dies while saving her
Woman immolates self, husband dies while saving her - Times Of India

Old man tries to immolate self
Old man tries to immolate self - Times Of India

 

[samv]

And from earlier:

"The first of the protests actually began when the South Indian Film Artistes' Association, a non-profit group of film actors, directors, producers, and other artistes of the Tamil film industry, staged a one-day hunger strike in September 2008.

With regard to sentiments among those deceased in the war, several individuals had self immolated themselves on various days. Those who self immolated themselves were

Muthukumar, Murugathasan
Amaresan
Pallapatti Ravi
Gokularathinam
Tamilvendhan
Sivaprakasam
Raja
Ravichandran,
Ramu and
Sivanandam.

2009 Tamil diaspora protests - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


So 10 denizens of Tamil Nadu burnt themselves to a crisp protesting against the campaign against the LTTE.

And yet the LTTE got wiped out.

Another one burns himself to a crisp protesting against the visit of the SL president to India

And yet the SL president is going to visit India.


Do these folks have a brain?

 

[Asskicker]

This happens when someone become blind with their race or religion.
My advice, self-immolation is painful if it stops with half-burn. Use different methods which is not painful that much.

RIP to the poor guy who became victim of politics!

If he did that in chennai i myself would have burnt him,stupid guy for the sake of politics he lost his life and betrayed his family...