BBC News: “Two men set themselves on fire in the Tibetan city of Lhasa on Sunday, Chinese state media said, confirming earlier reports. One of the men died and the other “survived with injuries”, Xinhua news agency said.
The self-immolations are thought to be the first in Lhasa and the second inside Tibet. But they follow a series of self-immolations, mostly involving monks and nuns, in Tibetan areas outside Tibet. “They were a continuation of the self-immolations in other Tibetan areas and these acts were all aimed at separating Tibet from China,” Hao Peng, head of the Communist Partys Commission for Political and Legal Affairs in the Tibet Autonomous Region, was quoted as saying.”
via BBC News – Tibetan men in first self-immolations in Lhasa.
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