{"id":31115,"date":"2012-11-27T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=31115 "},"modified":"2012-11-27T15:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:48:00","slug":"31115-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=31115","title":{"rendered":"Tibetan students protest, as four more self-immolations reported"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tibetan students protest, as four more self-immolations reported<\/div>
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Protests and self-immolations have climbed in ethnic Tibetan areas over the past month<\/div>
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A crowd of Tibetan students has protested in Qinghai province, activists say, as four more self-immolations were reported.<\/div>
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Reports said more than 1,000 students took part in the protest, which was reportedly provoked by the contents of a book.<\/div>
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Twenty students were in hospital, media reports and activist groups said.<\/div>
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The four self-immolations, meanwhile, occurred in Gansu, Sichuan and Qinghai provinces on Sunday and Monday.<\/div>
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Foreign media are banned from Tibetan regions, making reports of protests and self-immolations hard to verify independently. Chinese state media reports some of the protests and burnings but not all.<\/div>
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The student protest took place on Monday in Gonghe county in Qinghai province, London-based Free Tibet said.<\/div>
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“The students of Tsolho Medical Institute protested against the distribution of a book condemning the study of Tibetan language as devoid of relevance and the self-immolations as acts of stupidity,” US-based Radio Free Asia (RFA) quoted an exile as saying.<\/div>
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The morning protest was peaceful until police arrived, Free Tibet added. After that the exact chain of events was not clear, the group said.<\/div>
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Officials had sealed the school, Free Tibet said. Of the 20 people hospitalised, four required emergency treatment, it said.<\/div>
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Self-immolations<\/div>
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Of the four Tibetans who set themselves on fire in separate incidents, three are reported to have died.<\/div>
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Teenage nun Sangay Dolmas died in Qinghai on Sunday. Kunchok Tsering, 18, and Gonpo Tearing, 24, died in Gansu on Monday.<\/div>
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Wang Gyal, 20, a former monk, set himself on fire in Sichuan on Monday. His condition is currently unknown.<\/div>
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More than 80 Tibetans have set themselves alight since 2011 in what activists say are protests against Beijing’s rule.<\/div>
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More than half are believed to have died. Most of the cases have occurred in Tibetan areas outside Tibet.<\/div>
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There were at least six self-immolations reported as China’s Communist Party held a congress in Beijing that transferred power to a new generation of leaders.<\/div>
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Beijing says Tibet as a region is getting wealthier and that Tibetans have religious freedom. The government accuses exiled Tibetan leaders including the Dalai Lama of stirring up unrest.<\/div>
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He rejects this, and both activist groups and the Tibetan government-in-exile say the self-immolations are protests against tight Chinese control of the region and religious repression. <\/div>
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