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Chennai man attempts self-immolation for Lanka cause
Published on Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 15:26, Updated on Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 15:39 in 
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Chennai: A computer operator on Thursday attempted self-immolation here, outside a building housing central government offices, to draw attention to the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka, police said.
Twenty-six-year–old M Muthu Kumaran was admitted to a government hospital in a serious condition with 95 per cent burns.
According to police sources, Kumaran, who works for a PMK-owned Tamil periodical, said: "the attempt was to open the eyes of the central and state governments to the burning issue of Lankan Tamils".
Hailing from Tuticorin in southern Tamil Nadu, some 500 km south of Chennai, Kumaran has been working in the state capital for the past six months, the sources added.
Hospital sources said the chances of his recovery were bleak.
Meanwhile, opposition legislators belonging to the Communist Party of India, MDMK and VCK staged a walkout of the Tamil Nadu assembly Thursday over the Lankan Tamil tangle.
As a prelude to their protest, the parties termed the recently concluded visit of External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to Sri Lanka "unproductive".
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Sure Vel,
Whole of India is not concerned about Tamilnadu. They hate tamils because we opposed Hindi.
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Hang on....The Tamils immigrate to Srilanka. You then try to impose your language and culture on the mainstream indegenious population
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Tears rolls out when hearing the sad news of that young guy. May god rest his soul in peace.
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My heart goes out to this poor man. Indian government's inactivity has to gone such levels where a common Tamil
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This issue is going to snowball now and he will be the martyr and Tamilnadu salutes him even though the
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