{"id":30743,"date":"2012-11-08T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=30743 "},"modified":"2012-11-08T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T16:06:00","slug":"30743-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=30743","title":{"rendered":"Six Tibetans set themselves on fire in two days – activists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dozens of ethnic Tibetans have set themselves on fire in protest at Chinese rule since 2011<\/div>
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Another person in ethnic Tibetan parts of China has burned himself to death in protest against Beijing’s rule, activists say, a day after five similar self-immolations were reported.<\/div>
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They say large crowds of Tibetans later gathered at the scene in Qinghai province, amid heavy police presence.<\/div>
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On Wednesday, five people reportedly set themselves on fire, and at least two of them later died.<\/div>
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China accuses exiled Tibetan leaders of stirring up unrest.<\/div>
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The government in Beijing says Tibetans have religious freedom, blaming Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, for the unrest – a claim he rejects.<\/div>
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More than 60 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since early 2011.<\/div>
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The latest incidents took place as China’s Communist Party opened a congress in Beijing that will begin the process of transferring power to a new generation of leaders.<\/div>
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On Thursday, Tibetan nomad Jinpa Gyatso, 18, set himself on fire in the square outside a monastery in the western town of Rebkong, Tibetan activists in exile say.<\/div>
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He was reportedly heard shouting for the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet before he died.<\/div>
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On Wednesday, Dicki Chhoyang, a spokesperson for the Tibetan government in exile in India, told Agence-France Presse news agency that their sources were able to confirm the four cases, calling them a “cry for help”.<\/div>
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The London-based Free Tibet group said that the three boys set themselves on fire outside their local police station.<\/div>
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It said it was the first documented case of a triple self-immolation.<\/div>
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The youngest, aged 15, died at the scene. The whereabouts of his two 16-year-old companions are unknown, a group spokesman said.<\/div>
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The woman was identified by Voice of America as 23-year-old Tamding Tso. She had a five-year-old son, reports said.<\/div>
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Radio Free Asia also reported a fifth self-immolation inside Tibet, citing an exiled monk who had spoken to people in the region, however this could not be confirmed.<\/div>
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Foreign media are banned from the region, making verifying the self-immolation cases difficult. Chinese state media have confirmed some but not all.<\/div>
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More than half of those who set themselves on fire are believed to have died.<\/div>
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Last week UN rights chief Navi Pillay called on China to address issues behind the series of self-immolations and to allow monitors and the media access to the region. <\/div>
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