PHOTO: A Tibetan Buddhist monk celebrates the Dalai Lama's birthday on 6 July at the Manag Monastery of Kahmandú (AFP/Archive, Prakash Mathema)
21 julio 2013 (AFP) Beijing — A Tibetan monk of barely 18 years old died shortly after becoming a human torch in southern China, in the first protest of its kind in more than a month, a radio station reported this Sunday.
Kunchok Gold, of 18 years, He immolated himself with fire outside a monastery in Aba prefecture, in Sichuan Province, said Free Asia radio, mentioning the testimony of several neighbors.
El joven gritó consigas de la campaña 'Llorando por la libertad del Tibet' before dousing himself with gasoline and setting himself on fire, some neighbors told the radio station.
This is the first gesture of this type in five weeks in the region.
Some 120 Tibetan monks have set themselves on fire since February 2009 en protestas contra lo que denominan la "opresión china", according to the International Campaign for Tibet. This wave of sacrifices accelerated considerably in the weeks before the last Congress of the Communist Party of China, last November, although it seemed to decrease in recent months.
The Chinese government condemns these acts and holds the exiled Tibetan leader Dalai Lama responsible for them., who resides in India since 1959.
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