China: Two Tibetan Cousins Self-Immolate


China: Two Tibetan Cousins Self-Immolate   Two Tibetan cousins set themselves ablaze Thursday in protest over Chinese rule in a Tibetan-populated area of China’s southwestern Sichuan province, according to exile sources.   They self-immolated in the afternoon near a monastery in Ngaba (in Chinese, Aba) prefecture's Dzamthang (Rangtang) county, said Tsangyang Gyatso, head of the Jonang Buddhist Association in India's Dharamsala hill town, where Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama,...

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