Tibetans still burning for change in China

Tibetan exile Jampa Yeshi died on March 28th after setting himself on fire in New Delhi on March 26th (freetibet.org).

BEIJING (AP, March 31, 2012) - Two Tibetan monks set themselves on fire in a western Chinese city in the latest in a wave of self-immolations protesting against Chinese rule, exiled monks and a Tibet advocacy group said.

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The conditions of the two monks were not known after the simultaneous immolations Friday in Maerkang, London-based Free Tibet said. The exiled monks in Dharmsala, India, said one protester died, and police took him and the other monk to a government hospital to prevent them from becoming a focus of larger demonstrations.

The monks, identified as Tenpa Darjey and Chimey Palden, came from a monastery 50 miles (80 km) away. When fellow monastics learned of the immolations, they set out for the city only to be blocked by police about halfway there, said the exiles, Losang Yeshe and Kanyag Tsering. More

• Jampa Yeshi set himself on fire in New Delhi. More
• Two young monks set fire to themselves on March 30th in Barkham Town, Ngaba, one fatally. More
  
• Tibetan protesters are subjected to beatings, torture, and unwarranted detention. More