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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Tibetan Woman Dies in Western China Blaze, Reports Say - NYTimes.com

Tibetan Woman Dies in Western China Blaze, Reports Say - NYTimes.com

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RAYLOKEAugust 8, 2012 at 6:51 AM
The group said it had received two photographs of the body, which lay at Tso Monastery in the area that Tibetans call Kanlho Prefecture and that the Chinese call Gannan Prefecture, in Gansu Province.

Nearly 50 Tibetans have set fire to themselves since 2009 in what appear to be protests against Chinese rule.

On Monday, a Tibetan monk from Kirti Monastery self-immolated in the town of Ngaba, according to reports by Free Tibet and Radio Free Asia, which is financed by the United States government.

The condition of the monk was not known on Tuesday, but he appeared to be alive and badly burned when he was taken away by security forces after the self-immolation, the reports said.

Radio Free Asia gave his name as Lobsang Trinlay, while Free Tibet identified him as Lobsang Tsultrim, 21.

Many self-immolations have taken place in Ngaba, called Aba in Chinese, where there is a market street now known as “Martyrs Road” because of the number of self-immolations that have taken place there. That is where people say the monk set fire to himself.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: August 8, 2012

A headline on an earlier version of this article mistakenly referred to Dolkar Kyi as a monk.
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