Thursday, August 16, 2012

Beatings and arrests while two Tibetans set themselves on fire in China...

Chinese police have indiscriminately beaten and arrested protesters after two young Tibetans themselves on fire in the main street of Ngaba (Sichuan).

At about 18:50 yesterday, the layman Tashi (about 21) and monk Lungtok (about 20) of the Kirti monastery have self-immolated in protest against Chinese oppression in Tibet.

According eye witness accounts related to exiles, "Tashi and Lungtok set themselves on fire, shouting slogans and running towards the center of the road" which the Tibetans now call "the path of martyrs," because of the large number of self-immolations that have occurred there.

 A group of policemen ran towards them, throwing themselves upon the two young men and beating them to extinguish the flames. They were first brought to the Ngaba hospital and then Barkham (Chinese: Maerkang). Full story...

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  2. Tibetan mother burns herself to death in Sichuan...
  3. Tibetan capital sees first anti-China self-immolations ...
  4. Tibetan sets himself on fire in India in anti-China protest...
  5. Third Tibetan self-immolates in three days in China...
  6. Buddhist nun sets herself on fire as Tibet protests intensify...
  7. Tibetan monastery a 'virtual prison' 

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