Let me just burn myself," wailed a Rohingya man. His heart wrenching lament came as he was sentenced at the Magistrates court here for attempted suicide by pouring petrol and seeking set fire to himself. My family, they were killed, they were bombed by the (Myanmar) soldiers. Magistrate Ahmad Solihin Abdul Wahid handed down the sentence after the accused admitted to have tried to burn himself to death by pouring petrol on himself near the Ampang Park LRT station in Jalan Ampang here at 11.30am on Aug 30. Police then found one of the protestors pouring petrol on his body to burn himself while yelling "there is no use of me living anymore.. the Myanmar soldiers had burnt down my village".

Source: New Strait Times September 13, 2017 09:22 UTC