{"id":29439,"date":"2012-08-29T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=29439 "},"modified":"2012-08-29T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T14:41:00","slug":"29439-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=29439","title":{"rendered":"Tibetan Teens Die in Self-immolation Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">Two Tibetan teenagers died after setting themselves on fire outside a monastery in southwest China in the latest such protests against Chinese rule, an overseas rights group said Tuesday.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">The incidents pushed the number of confirmed self-immolations to 51 since 2009, London-based Free Tibet said in a statement.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">The group said 18-year-old monk Lobsang Kalsang and 17-year-old former monk Damchoek set themselves on fire Monday outside Kirti Monastery in Sichuan province&#8217;s Aba county. They died later in the day after they were taken to a hospital by Chinese authorities, Free Tibet said.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">Citing eyewitnesses, Free Radio Asia said the two teenagers shouted slogans condemning Chinese policies in Tibet.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">Police in Aba county said Tuesday that they had no information on the self-immolations, which are rarely reported by Chinese state media.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">Aba, home to the restive Tibetan Kirti Monastery, has witnessed at least 27 self-immolations, according to an earlier tally by the International Campaign for Tibet.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">Supporters say the self-immolators are protesting Beijing&#8217;s heavy-handed rule in Tibetan regions and calling for the return of the Dalai Lama. China has blamed the Tibetans&#8217; exiled spiritual leader for inciting the immolations, but the Dalai Lama denies the claim.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">The spiritual leader has never publicly supported or denounced the acts.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">Lobsang Sangay, the political leader of Tibetan exiles, said earlier this month that the incidents were against the movement&#8217;s commitment to nonviolence but that it was his duty to highlight why the protesters were dying.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"color: #2d2d2d; background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; \">Continue reading&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/tibetan-teens-die-immolating-china-17091690#.UD5bdNZlRjt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #034af3; background-color: white; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; \">original article<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #2d2d2d; background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; \">.<\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Once again ethnic Tibetans have resorted to setting themselves alight in protest of oppressive Chinese rule of Tibet. &amp;nbsp;The two teenagers, Lobsang Kalsang and Damchoek, died in hospital later that day.&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}