[Buddha-l] China shoots self-immolating Tibetan monk

[jkirk]

Last year there were immolations in Lhasa too: see
http://tinyurl.com/b2a49o including a photo.

"March 14
About 80 dead, four monks torching themselves, a monastery badly
damaged, and Chinese buildings set ablaze were reported from
Lhasa on March 14. "There could be several hundred tanks and they
were shooting into the crowds," a private witness told RFA's
Tibetan service."

Joanna
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 On Behalf Of Dan Lusthaus
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 10:09 PM

Monk Sets Himself on Fire in Tibet
Chinese Police Shoot at Burning Man as Tensions Rise in Region

By Maureen Fan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, February 28, 2009; Page A09

BEIJING, Feb. 27 -- A young Tibetan monk was shot by Chinese
police after he set himself on fire Friday, the third day of the
Tibetan New Year, at a market in Sichuan province's Aba
prefecture, Tibetan activist groups said, citing eyewitnesses.

Read the rest at
http://tinyurl.com/cjkjbb


Dan

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