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PHOTO: Hundreds of Tibetans demonstrate in Rebkong (Ch: Tongren) This Friday, town where three Tibetans burned themselves alive in the last five days calling for liberation from Chinese rule (9 November 2012).
Beijing, 9 nov (EFE).- A wave of immolations recorded in the middle of the week, six in two days, has motivated a large number of Tibetans to take to the streets to protest against the Chinese Government in Huagnan, east of the Tibet region (west of China), according to dissident groups and Tibetan sources in exile.
The situation in Tibet, one of the ethnic powder kegs in western China, has intensified these days coinciding with the celebration of the 18th Congress of the Communist Party (CCP) in Beijing, in which thousands of Chinese leaders meet to set the course of the country for the next ten years and appoint a new president.
Thousands of Tibetans, según "Free Tibet" y la agencia tibetana "Phayul", have been demonstrating since yesterday in Huagnan county, on the border between the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province (west of the country), Although it was today that photographs of the demonstrations began to circulate online.
La organización no gubernamental "Free Tibet" assures that the Chinese Government has sent numerous paramilitary groups to dissuade the Protestants, por lo que alertan de que se produzcan "enfrentamientos" between them and the Tibetans.
These demonstrations occur after six Tibetans burned themselves to death - among them, four teenage monks and a young mother- para protestar contra la "ocupación del Tíbet" and the strict control of the Chinese Government, según informan "Free Tibet" y "Radio Free Asia".
Of the six sacrificed, five of them on Wednesday and one last on Thursday, at least, Three of them have died from their injuries., asegura "Radio Free Asia" y "Free Tibet", from exile.
Según "Radio Free Asia", based in London, On Wednesday three Tibetan teenagers (of 15 and 16 years) They immolated themselves in Aba prefecture (western province of Sichuan and adjacent to Tibet), and two other people did the same in the Tibet Autonomous Region and Huagnan County (Qinghai province), where the aforementioned demonstrations persist today.
A fourth teenage monk, of 18 years, caught fire early Thursday morning, day on which the aforementioned conclave was inaugurated in Beijing, starring in the sixth immolation in 48 hours, según indica la organización "Free Tibet".
In October, protests for the defense of the Tibetan language were already registered in the same region, where the demonstrations continue today, area inhabited mostly by communities of this ethnic group
It is a time of tensions in Tibet, more than 60 immolations in the last two years and the growing international pressure for these actions.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, Last week he called on the Chinese Government to control what is happening in Tibet and the surrounding provinces..
China considers Tibet part of the country for centuries, by dynastic and conquest unions in the imperial era, si bien para los tibetanos en el exilio el "Techo del Mundo" It was virtually independent until it was occupied by the communist army in the early 50 of the last century. EFE
