Friday, August 10, 2012

Asia - Voice of America: Tibetan Nomad Self-Immolates in China

Asia - Voice of America
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Tibetan Nomad Self-Immolates in China
Aug 10th 2012, 12:39

The London-based rights group Free Tibet says a Tibetan nomad in central China has become the third person this week to set himself on fire to protest Chinese rule. Free Tibet Director Stephanie Brigden says the 24-year-old man, named Jopa, set himself on fire Friday in the township of Meruma in Aba county in the southwest province of Sichuan. "We know based on witness evidence that the public security bureau attended very quickly and extinguished the flames and took Jopa away. We ...

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