China: Dalai Lama Supporter Burns Herself in Protest
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Version 0 of 1. A Tibetan woman who supported the exiled Dalai Lama set herself ablaze and died in a Tibetan part of southwest China, advocacy organizations abroad said Tuesday. Her self-immolation on Thursday was the first such episode reported in a Tibetan area this year, resuming a grim form of protest against Chinese rule that has spread since 2009. The woman, Norchuk, who was in her late 40s, set herself on fire in her home village in Ngaba County, a heavily Tibetan part of Sichuan Province that is next to the official Tibetan Autonomous Region, according to the exiled Central Tibetan Administration, which is based in northern India. Many Tibetans use only one name. |