6 August 2013
PHOTO: Passersby observe the place where an exiled Tibetan was burned alive, it is 6 August 2013 in Kathmandu. (AFP, Prakash Mathema)
KATHMANDU — An exiled Tibetan died this Tuesday after burning himself alive in front of a Buddhist temple in Nepal to protest Beijing's control over Tibet., reported a Nepalese police official.
"Un hombre de unos 40 años prendió fuego a su ropa en el templo de Budhanath Stupa", dijo a AFP Arjun Chand, an official of the security forces in Kathmandu. "Fue trasladado al Teaching Hospital, donde se certificó su muerte", he added.
Since November 2011, three Tibetans burned themselves alive or tried to do so in this temple, one of the most revered in Buddhism, according to the police. From 2009, some 120 Tibetans have set themselves on fire, most of them in China. At least 90 of them died.
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