Jamphel Yeshi, aged 27 a Tibetan exile who had sacrificed by burning himself on Monday in New Delhi died on Wednesday.
Yeshi was protesting against Chinese President Hu Jintao’s arrival for the BRICS Summit to New Delhi along with hundreds of Tibetans who were gathered outside Jantar Mantar, protesting in loud slogans of “Free Tibet”.
They demanded to draw Hu’s visit that seem to focus global attention on the Chinese government’s alleged oppression of Tibet anda gradual erosion of their culture.
There is amid tight security in the National Capital, restricting Tibetans under house arrest. Students not allow going outside from their hostels. They have been instructed not to rally anywhere inside New Delhi while the summit is going on.
On Monday, Yeshi set himself on fire and ran about 50 meters screaming down the street, engulfed his body in flames before collapsing on the ground. According to Police, they detained 100 protestors, many of them female and students also at the same place where Tibaten protester immortal himself.
98 % his body had completely burned, but he fought for two days and declared dead after his heart stopped working on Wednesday.
He was admitted at Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia hospital and now this body has gone for postmortem. Yeshi had been living in the Tibetan exiles’ colony of Majnu ka Tila in Delhi since 2006.
No one knew what Yeshi’s plan was. His frustration at the fate of Tibetans in China forced him to self-immolation protest, but made him a hero of the world.
“He made a big sacrifice for the Tibetan nation, for his brothers and sisters. He wanted to end the suffering in Tibet,” said Tsewang Dolma, a Tibetan Youth Congress member.
Yeshi’s self-immolation was the first outside China since March 2011 and now after this a least 29 Tibetans, Buddhist monks and nuns are reported have set themselves for self immolation in regional areas of China to protest against Chinese regime.
Protest has for demanding the return of the Dalai Lama whom China accused of urging violently self-immolations for separating Tibet from the rest of the nation.
For shake of Yeshi’s great sacrifice for Tibet who was the student of the Tibetan Transit School in Dharamshala for three and a half years, Tibetan rights groups decide a “grand funeral deserving of a martyr” for Yeshi at Dharamshala.
