Empty original: Tibetan dies after clashes with police in western China
Beijing, 14 ago (EFE).- One person died after being beaten by police during clashes between the population and security forces in a town in the Chinese province of Sichuan. (west), after two Tibetans burned themselves to death, Radio Free Asia reported today (RFA).
The two Tibetans, a monk named Lungtok and another man identified as Tashi, They set themselves on fire yesterday in the Sichuanese county of Ngaba in protest against the Chinese mandate, according to RFA, who does not know his state of health, although witnesses assured that the security forces took them to a nearby hospital.
The immolation of the two Tibetans - RFA sources, based in the USA, suggest that there could have been a third immolation- caused a strong stir among the population, who confronted the Chinese police, which caused the death of the Tibetan citizen, whose identity is unknown.
"Un gran número de tibetanos continuaron protestando contra las autoridades chinas. La situación es seria", a witness told RFA.
The Chinese government has not yet commented on the matter..
The event is the second of its kind that occurs in just three days in Sichuan, where last Friday a young man died (in the town of Meruma) after setting himself on fire in protest of China's occupation of Tibet, The Tibetan exile then reported.
The young man, of 24 years and identified as Choepa, He was persecuted by the Chinese authorities after participating in a demonstration against the occupation of Tibet last January., according to the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD).
Although the official Xinhua agency assures that, so far this year, "más de 20" Tibetans have died in immolations in several Chinese provinces bordering Tibet, Radio Free Asia raises the figure to about 40 only since last March.
According to the political successor of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan prime minister, Lobsang Sangay, la ola de inmolaciones está protagonizada por "una nueva generación" born under occupation and who has grown up under the educational system imposed by Beijing.
For your part, Chinese authorities accuse the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan forces in the diaspora of inciting suicides, complaint that denies the Nobel Peace Prize.
China argues that Tibet has been an inseparable part of its territory for centuries, While the Tibetans wielded that it was independent for a long time until the communist troops occupied him in 1951. EFE
