{"id":30024,"date":"2012-10-04T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=30024 "},"modified":"2012-10-04T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T22:04:00","slug":"30024-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=30024","title":{"rendered":"Tibetan Blogger Self-Immolates, Leaves Posts Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2012\/40\/20121045225F09D-C316-455D-AC60-43A66A8F2D65_w268_r1_cx0_cy29_cw0.jpg\" alt=\"20121045225F09D-C316-455D-AC60-43A66A8F2D65_w268_r1_cx0_cy29_cw0.jpg (268&#215;151)\" \/><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Gudrup, a writer and poet who self immolated in in Dreru, Tibet &#8211; part of the area China has designated the Tibet Autonomous Region, October 4, 2012.<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div>October 04, 2012<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Sources tell VOA&#8217;s Tibetan Service a 43-year-old poet and blogger named Gudrup engulfed himself in flames Thursday in Dreru, Tibet &#8211; part of the area China has designated the Tibet Autonomous Region.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Witnesses said Gudrup was badly burned when he was brought to a hospital. A doctor later told them Gudrup had died, but the authorities so far are refusing to release his body to his family.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>This past March, Gudrup blogged about the anti-China protests that had gripped southwestern China and Tibet, writing on March 14 &#8220;Tibetans who refuse to denounce His Holiness the Dalai Lama or accept China&#8217;s rule on Tibet are secretly killed or made to disappear.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>In the same post, Gudrup called on fellow Tibetans to &#8220;win the battle through truth, by shooting arrows upon our lives.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8203;&#8203;He also warned Tibetans &#8220;are sharpening our nonviolent movement&#8230; declaring the reality of Tibet by burning our own bodies to call for freedom.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Gudrup&#8217;s actions bring the number of self-immolations to 53 since February 2009, and are part of a slowly growing number taking place within the Tibet Autonomous Region. Most of the self-immolations have occurred in southwestern China.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><span style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff; \">Continue reading the<\/span><strong style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff; \"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/tibetan_blogger_self_immolates_and_leaves_posts_behind\/1520543.html\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: none; \">&nbsp;original article.&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><br \/><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Sources tell VOA&#39;s Tibetan Service a 43-year-old poet and blogger named Gudrup engulfed himself in flames Thursday in Dreru, Tibet &#8211; part of the area China has designated the Tibet Autonomous Region.&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-30024","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\/30024","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=30024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}