{"id":32597,"date":"2013-02-20T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=32597 "},"modified":"2013-02-20T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T16:02:00","slug":"32597-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=32597","title":{"rendered":"Tibetan teens \\’set themselves on fire in western China\\’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The most recent reported cases of self-immolation, marked by a vigil, occurred just a week ago<\/div>
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Two Tibetan youths have burned themselves to death in western China, reports from activists and Tibetan exiles say.<\/div>
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The deaths are the latest in a long series of protests at perceived repression by the Beijing government.<\/div>
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The two, aged 17 and 18, set themselves alight in Aba, in Sichuan Province.<\/div>
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Campaigners say that more than 100 ethnic Tibetans have set themselves on fire in China, including Tibet, over the past two years.<\/div>
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Most of them have died from the injuries sustained in their act of protest.<\/div>
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Aba county, an ethnic Tibetan area that is home to the Tibetan Buddhist Kirti monastery, has been the scene of many of the self-immolations in recent months.<\/div>
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Last week, a 19-year-old Tibetan monk from the same area set himself on fire in protest.<\/div>
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The two teenagers who died on Tuesday were named as 17-year-old Rinchen and 18-year-old Sonam Dhargye.<\/div>
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According to the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, Rinchen was on his New Year holiday visiting his family at the time of the incident.<\/div>
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Most of the self-immolations have taken place in the ethnic Tibetan areas of China.<\/div>
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International media are often denied access to the area, making it difficult to verify accounts.<\/div>
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Many have involved Buddhist monks or nuns calling for greater religious freedom and the return of their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, Tibetan activist groups say.<\/div>
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Continue reading <\/span><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>the<\/span><\/a> <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>original article<\/a><\/a><\/a>.<\/a><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/a><\/span> <\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/div>
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New York Times\uff1aTibetan Teenagers Die in Double Self-Immolation<\/a><\/strong><\/div>
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Voice Of American\uff1a2 Dead in Latest Tibetan Self-Immolation <\/strong><\/a><\/div>
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