Tibetan Monk Immolates Self

[PaulintheUSA]

upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/08/16/Tibetan-monk-immolates-self/UPI-21561313469400/

BEIJING, Aug. 16 (UPI) – A 29-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monk died after setting himself on fire in China to protest Chinese rule in Tibet, the Free Tibet advocacy group said.

The incident, also reported by China’s official Xinhua news agency, occurred Monday in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, the second self-immolation incident in five months, which The New York Times said pointed to Tibetans’ resistance to Chinese crack down of those supporting the exiled Dalai Lama, who fled to India after the failed 1959 Tibetan uprising.

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He died in vain and I call it “suicide.” It is true, not everybody will be saved, only few.