{"id":32289,"date":"2013-02-02T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=32289 "},"modified":"2013-02-02T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T01:01:00","slug":"32289-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=32289","title":{"rendered":"Tibetans guilty of murder for \\’inciting immolations\\’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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China denies accusations that it is blocking religious freedom in Tibet<\/div>
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A Tibetan monk has received a suspended death sentence and his nephew 10 years in jail for inciting eight people to self-immolate, Chinese state media say.<\/div>
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Lorang Konchok, 40, and Lorang Tsering, 31, were found guilty of “intentional homicide” by the court in Sichuan province, Xinhua news agency said.<\/div>
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Tibetan activists had said the men were forced to confess to the charges.<\/div>
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Nearly 100 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since 2009, many fatally, in apparent protest at Chinese rule.<\/div>
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Most of the self-immolations have taken place in ethnic Tibetan areas outside Tibet.<\/div>
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Many have involved Buddhist monks or nuns calling, Tibetan activist groups say, for greater religious freedom and the return of their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.<\/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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Loran Konchok was based at Kirti monastery in Aba prefecture, an area in Sichuan province that has been a focal point for self-immolations.<\/div>
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The court in Aba prefecture ruled that he and his nephew had “incited and coerced eight people to self-immolate, resulting in three deaths”, said Xinhua.<\/div>
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The other five people either chose not to carry out the act or were stopped by police before they could go ahead.<\/div>
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The elder Lorang was given a death sentence with a two-year reprieve – a sentence which is usually commuted to life imprisonment – and stripped of his political rights for life, while the younger lost his rights for three years.<\/div>
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In December Xinhua reported that the men had confessed to the charges, saying they had recorded details of the protesters, gathered photographs and passed them on to exile groups in India.<\/div>
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The Tibetan government-in-exile denied any involvement and said the men had been “forced to make these confessions”.<\/div>
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The sentences are believed to be the first since a legal ruling stipulating that anyone aiding immolations would be charged with murder.<\/div>
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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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But Beijing says Tibet as a region is getting wealthier and that Tibetans have religious freedom.<\/div>
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China’s leaders blame the Dalai Lama for inciting the self-immolations and encouraging Tibetan separatism, a charge he strongly rejects.<\/div>
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 <\/div>Continue reading <\/span><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>the<\/span><\/a> <\/a><\/a>original article<\/a><\/a><\/a>.<\/a><\/span><\/a><\/span> <\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/strong>
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