{"id":30356,"date":"2012-10-22T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=30356 "},"modified":"2012-10-22T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:59:00","slug":"30356-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=30356","title":{"rendered":"Tibetan Self-immolates at Labrang Monastery in NW China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2012\/42\/2012102235832E9B-7DB3-4415-B0C4-688A8B1E9D36_w640_r1_s_cx0_cy2_cw0.jpg\" alt=\"2012102235832E9B-7DB3-4415-B0C4-688A8B1E9D36_w640_r1_s_cx0_cy2_cw0.jpg (320&#215;180)\" \/><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Monks gather to pray at the Labrang monastery prior Tibetan New Year in Xiahe county, Gansu Province February 21, 2012.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Another Tibetan has set himself on fire and died to protest Chinese policies in Tibet.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Rights groups say a 61-year-old farmer named Dhondup set himself ablaze Monday near the remote Labrang Monastery in China&#8217;s northwestern Gansu province. Some witnesses said monks from the monastery surrounded the charred body to prevent Chinese officials from claiming the remains.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>The groups say Dhondup left behind a wife and an adopted son.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>The highly respected Labrang monastery was the scene of deadly protests against Chinese rule in 2008.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Monday&#8217;s self-immolation is the second in three days. On Saturday, a man named Lhamo Kyab died after setting himself on fire outside the Bora monastery in Sangchu.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Since February of 2009, at least 57 Tibetans have set themselves on fire to protest Chinese policy in Tibet. In 47 cases the protesters have died. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>China has long-accused Tibetan exiles of self-immolating as part of a separatist struggle, denouncing them as terrorists.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Rights groups say a 61-year-old farmer named Dhondup set himself ablaze Monday near the remote Labrang Monastery in China&#39;s northwestern Gansu province.&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-30356","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\/30356","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=30356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}