The death of two Tibetans after setting themselves on fire in the northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai last Saturday raises the number of immolations in the last twelve days to fourteen, The Tibetan agency Phayul has reported.
Shangdad Tsering, of 24 years and father of a three-year-old boy, was burned to death in front of a Chinese provincial government office in the city of Dokar Mo hours after a female taxi driver, Chagmo Kyi, died in the city of Rongwo after immolating himself at the doors of another government headquarters.
According to some witnesses cited by Phayul, Chinese authorities They prohibited Tibetan citizens from visiting the families of immolated neighbors to prevent them from showing their condolences., in addition to closing several monasteries.
A Tibetan in exile added that Thousands of citizens gathered at the place where Sangdad Tsering set himself on fire to transfer his body to a nearby monastery.
Several, according to the same source, He had expressed on several occasions his frustration about lack of freedom in Tibet, in addition to demanding the return of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader who lives in exile in India.
The number of immolations in regions with Tibetan populations has increased by the past two weeks coinciding with the celebration of 18th Congress of the Communist Party (CCP) in Beijing, that started last day 8.
With the two new cases, the number of immolations In the last twelve days it rises to fourteen and the number of deaths since 2009 a 62, of a total of 76 cases of this type, According to Phayul.
The alarming escalation of these acts of protest led the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, to urge the Chinese government to act to prevent it, but the communist regime remains firm in its position and accuses the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan leaders of instigating the immolations.
El Dalai Lama dijo ayer desde su residencia india en Dharamsala que la situación es "seria" and? "Whether the Chinese Government agrees or not, there are problems which are not good for either the Tibetans or the Chinese population, por lo que habrá que buscar una solución basada en el mutuo entendimiento y en el respeto".
"El uso de la fuerza nunca dará resultados satisfactorios", he added, According to Phayul.
China considers Tibet part of the country for centuries, by dynastic and conquest unions in the imperial era, yes ok para los tibetanos en el exilio el "Techo del Mundo" was virtually independent until it was occupied by the communist Army at the beginning of the 1990s. 50 of the last century.
