China: Third Tibetan Self-Immolation In Three Days


China: Third Tibetan Self-Immolation In Three Days   A Tibetan youth burned himself to death on Monday to protest Chinese rule in Tibetan areas—the third self immolation in three days, according to Tibetan sources.   The young man, identified as Dorje, 18, set himself ablaze at around 6:30 p.m. local time in a nomadic area of Ngaba (in Chinese, Aba) county in China’s western Sichuan province, said Kanyag Tsering, an India-based Tibetan monk, citing contacts in the...

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