{"id":28644,"date":"2012-07-17T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=28644 "},"modified":"2012-07-17T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T14:47:00","slug":"28644-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=28644","title":{"rendered":"Tibetan Teenager Self-immolates in Sichuan Province"},"content":{"rendered":"
A teenaged Tibetan Buddhist monk has burned himself to death in south-west China, the latest in a series of such protests against Chinese rule, rights activists have said.<\/span><\/div>
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The monk, 18, is reported to have set himself alight in Sichuan province.<\/span><\/div>
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Tibetan exiles said local people blocked a bridge to stop police from moving in after the incident.<\/span><\/div>
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About 42 Tibetans are believed to have set themselves alight since March 2011 in Tibetan-inhabited parts of China.<\/span><\/div>
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Many of them are believed to have died.<\/span><\/div>
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Chinese state media has confirmed some incidents but not all. Foreign media are banned from the region, making reports hard to confirm.<\/span><\/div>
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The monk in Tuesday’s incident was identified as Lobsang Lozin.<\/span><\/div>
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He set himself ablaze and died immediately in Bharkham county in Sichuan province as he marched towards a government office, the India-based Central Tibetan Administration – or government-in-exile – said in a statement.<\/span><\/div>
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Local government and police in Bharkham, known as Maerkang in Chinese, could not immediately confirm the suicide.<\/span><\/div>
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But the government-in-exile said that a large group of armed police were moving towards Bharkham following the incident.<\/span><\/div>
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Activists say that Mr Lobzin was a member of the Tsodun Kirti Monastery in Bharkham. Two other monks from the same monastery set themselves on fire in March, they say.<\/span><\/div>
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