A Tibetan Buddhist monk doused himself in fuel and set himself ablaze in far western China, becoming the tenth ethnic Tibetan this year to resort to the extreme form of protest.
The Free Tibet group said the latest self-immolation happened outside a monastery in Ganzi in Sichuan province, about 95 miles south of Aba, the site of eight of the last nine self-immolations since March to protest against religious controls imposed by the Chinese government.
In a statement, Free Tibet said it had no information about the monk's name, whereabouts, or whether he survived the incident.
Government officials, police and workers at several hotels in Ganzi, called Kandze by Tibetans, told Reuters they did not know about the reported self-immolation. Full story...
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The Free Tibet group said the latest self-immolation happened outside a monastery in Ganzi in Sichuan province, about 95 miles south of Aba, the site of eight of the last nine self-immolations since March to protest against religious controls imposed by the Chinese government.
In a statement, Free Tibet said it had no information about the monk's name, whereabouts, or whether he survived the incident.
Government officials, police and workers at several hotels in Ganzi, called Kandze by Tibetans, told Reuters they did not know about the reported self-immolation. Full story...
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