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发帖数: 3205 | 1 BEIJING -- Three Tibetans have died after setting themselves on fire to prot
est Chinese rule in a western region where authorities have imposed a heavy
security presence, exiled Buddhist monks and reports said Thursday.
More than 100 Tibetans have self-immolated since 2011 to protest Chinese pol
icies in the region and call for the return of their beloved spiritual leade
r, the Dalai Lama, from exile.
Two of the three latest protesters were monks at a monastery in Ruo'ergai co
unty of Aba prefecture, according to exiled monks and the Free Tibet group.
The two monks, aged 20 and 23, set themselves on fire in a corner of an asse
mbly hall of the Taktsang Lhamo Kirti monastery, wrote Losang Yeshe and Kany
ag Tsering, monks living in exile in Dharmsala, India. |
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