ANSA/The Third: New immolation in Tibet leads to 54 the number of suicides

Empty original: New immolation in Tibet leads to 54 the number of suicides

Se trata de la segunda "autoinmolación" in three days, after that of the writer Gudrup, who set himself on fire 5 October.
by Ansa – 06/10/2012 – 23:58

Un hombre Tibetano se "autoinmoló" setting himself on fire in protest against the People's Republic of China. With this episode they rise to 54 the cases of suicides for this reason.

The man, Gyatso Branch, of 27 years, He immolated himself in front of the Dokar monastery, in an area with a Tibetan population in the Chinese province of Gansu.

Se trata de la segunda "autoinmolación" in three days, after that of the writer Gudrup, who set himself on fire 5 October in the Tibet Autonomous Region. The first suicide of this type took place in 2009.

The people who immolated themselves so far, according to the group International Campaign for Tibet, They are mostly monks and, in good part, They come from the Kirti monastery, in the Chinese province of Sichuan, in an area that has been closed to outside observers for years.

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