THE WORLD: Two more people burn themselves against the Chinese occupation in Tibet

The world
Dpa | Beijing
08/08/2012

Empty original: Two more people burn themselves against the Chinese occupation in Tibet

Episodes of self-immolations increase in Tibet with two new cases of people immolating themselves in protest of the Chinese occupation, The organization Free Tibet has reported, based in London.

A young woman from 26 years ago he doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire in front of a monastery in Gansu province. The woman, identified as Dolkar Kyi and who died instantly, He had earlier shouted slogans in favor of the freedom of the Tibetans and the return of their religious leader, the Dalai Lama.

The government in exile in Dharamsala, in northern India, has confirmed the event.

A Buddhist monk set himself on fire in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan on Monday.. The police put out the flames and took the young man to 21 years to the hospital. His status is unknown., according to Free Tibet.

From 2009 they have caught on like crazy 46 Tibetans in the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Qinghai y Gansu, as well as in the Tibet autonomous region itself. More of 20 They died.

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