EFE 12/11/2013
A young Tibetan monk sets himself on fire in China's Qinghai province (west) in protest against the control of the communist regime and to demand the return of the Dalai Lama, exiled in Dharamsala (India), Radio Free Asia reported today.
Tsering Gyal, of 20 years, burned wildly Monday afternoon in Pema County (I don't know, in mandarin) from that province bordering Tibet, the organization noted.
The young man's health status is unknown., who was taken to a nearby hospital by police, according to the same source.
"No mucho después de que se prendiera fuego, The police arrived and intervened. (The agents) sofocaron las llamas y lo llevaron a un hospital local", write RFA, who summons a witness to the events.
The event, which raises the number of incidents of this type to 123 since March 2008, when several organized protests took place in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, It comes after tensions rose in that province and neighboring Sichuan over the Tibetan community's refusal to fly the Chinese flag on National Day. (the past 1 October).
The last recorded immolation occurred a little over a month ago., when a Tibetan from 41 years, called Schichung and father of two children, died after catching fire in Sichuan province, near his Ngaba County home.
Radio Free Asia assured that the Chinese authorities have increased control in the area to stop the protests since the National Day of the People's Republic of China (that this year he fulfilled his 64 birthday), and that the number of Tibetans arrested for instigating immolations has also increased.
Some, the source added, They have been sentenced to more than fifteen years in prison.
He also asserted that the Chinese Government is pressuring them to sign an official order that prevents them from expressing sympathy for any protest act of this type..
For now, There has been no confirmation from Beijing and the event has not been published by any official Chinese media either..
The Asian power has considered 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 independent until it was occupied by the Communist Army in the early 1990s. 1950.
