A Tibetan man set himself on fire in front of a famous Buddhist shrine in the Nepalese capital on Wednesday , police said , becoming the latest Tibetan to adopt this harrowing form of protest over Chinese rule . ` ` The whole of his body is burnt , '' a police officer says . The man doused himself in petrol and set himself on fire near a shrine . Thousands of Tibetans have self - organised in recent years to protest Chinese rule .
` ` The whole of his body is burnt , '' a police officer says . The man doused himself in petrol and set himself on fire near a shrine . Thousands of Tibetans have self - organised in recent years to protest Chinese rule .