Self Immolation on the Rise in China
While the Communist Party's People's Congress opened in China, another Tibetan self-immolated in protest against Chinese repression - this time in the Tibetan-dominated Qinghai province.
It is the sixth man who tries to burn himself to death in the course of two days. Never before has there been reported such a high number of protest-suicide in such a short time.
Three monks in their teens killed this way in Sichuan province yesterday, where there has been a series of protests against the oppression of the Tibetan ethnic group, according to government in exile of the Dalai Lama from Dharamshala, India.
At least two of them are dead
The fourth such protest occurred in Qinghai province. A young mother in a family of nomads took petrol from a motorbike and set herself on fire where the family's yak bulls were on pasture, near a Buddhist Monastery in Tongren.
According to Radio Free Asia lit a fifth person burned themselve in protest inside the autonomous Chinese province of Tibet yesterday. And this morning announced the exiled government in India about a sixth case of such a deadly protest.
The radio station reports that at least two of the six died. One of them was the young mother, the other a 15 year old monk.
Two of the others were just 16 years old. They were brought to the hospital by Chinese security forces, and their condition is unknown. The government does not respond to inquiries about the progress of these burn victims.
The fight for freedom continues
- The protesters want to send the next generation of China's unelected regime a clear signal that the Tibetans intend to continue their freedom struggle despite China's attempts to repress and terrorize them.
China routinely rejects any accusations that Tibetans are oppressed or discriminated against.
China's leadership accuses the Dalai Lama and his followers to encourage this kind of self-harm in protest against what activists call it heavy-handed Chinese rule in the region.
Dalai Lama's exile government in India say they oppose all forms of violence.
It is the sixth man who tries to burn himself to death in the course of two days. Never before has there been reported such a high number of protest-suicide in such a short time.
Three monks in their teens killed this way in Sichuan province yesterday, where there has been a series of protests against the oppression of the Tibetan ethnic group, according to government in exile of the Dalai Lama from Dharamshala, India.
At least two of them are dead
The fourth such protest occurred in Qinghai province. A young mother in a family of nomads took petrol from a motorbike and set herself on fire where the family's yak bulls were on pasture, near a Buddhist Monastery in Tongren.
According to Radio Free Asia lit a fifth person burned themselve in protest inside the autonomous Chinese province of Tibet yesterday. And this morning announced the exiled government in India about a sixth case of such a deadly protest.
The radio station reports that at least two of the six died. One of them was the young mother, the other a 15 year old monk.
Two of the others were just 16 years old. They were brought to the hospital by Chinese security forces, and their condition is unknown. The government does not respond to inquiries about the progress of these burn victims.
The fight for freedom continues
- The protesters want to send the next generation of China's unelected regime a clear signal that the Tibetans intend to continue their freedom struggle despite China's attempts to repress and terrorize them.
China routinely rejects any accusations that Tibetans are oppressed or discriminated against.
China's leadership accuses the Dalai Lama and his followers to encourage this kind of self-harm in protest against what activists call it heavy-handed Chinese rule in the region.
Dalai Lama's exile government in India say they oppose all forms of violence.
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