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Beijing, 22 sep (EFE).- A young Tibetan from 22 years died in Gansu province, west of China, after setting himself on fire in protest against the Chinese authorities' repression of his ethnic group, in which it is the first immolation that has occurred since April, informa hoy el diario de Hong Kong "South China Morning Post".
The event occurred on the day 17 September, Although it was not known until this weekend given the restrictions in all Tibetan regions in China - Tibet and the areas of this ethnic group in other neighboring or nearby provinces -, agrega el rotativo en base a informaciones de grupos protibetanos como "Free Tibet".
The deceased, student Lhamo Tashi, He blew himself up in front of a police station in Hezou County, Tibetan area of Gansu province, west of China.
The young man died at the scene, and the authorities collected his body and cremated it despite the family's demands that it be handed over to them., add these sources.
According to independent media calculations, This is the first case of immolation in 5 months, since the death of another Tibetan, A man of 32 years, in a county of Sichuan province, bordering Tibet.
one year before, This area had been the scene of a shooting by Chinese security forces against worshipers celebrating the 78 Dalái Lama Birthday, which ended with at least seven injured, according to Tibetan sources in exile.
Based on organization calculations, from 2009 and until now, have occurred around 130 immolations in protest of the repression of the Chinese authorities against their ethnicity and as a way of asking for the return of the spiritual leader Dalai Lama, exiled in India since 1959.
Year 2012 fue el más "mortífero" in this sense, more than 80 Tibetans who died from this cause, Although the death toll from leading these types of protests has decreased since 2013.
El dalái lama advirtió en junio de que estas acciones están teniendo "muy poco efecto" en la política de China en el Tíbet y urgió a Pekín a "estudiar" the causes of these protests, remembers today the South China Morning Post.
Según "Free Tibet", Tibetans have developed other types of protests in the region, although it warns that these have also resulted in deaths due to the confrontation with the Chinese security forces.
In August, according to this organization, cinco manifestantes tibetanos murieron mientras estaban bajo custodia después de que fueran tiroteados por agentes de policía cuando encabezaban una protesta "pacífica" in western Sichuan province and after being denied medical assistance.
China assures that Tibet has been an inseparable part of its territory for centuries, while Tibetans in exile argue that the region was long independent until it was occupied by communist troops in 1951. EFE
