Tag Archives: Self-immolation

• Exile monks promised me iPhone to ‘incite self-immolations’, claims arrested Tibetans 22 December 2012 This post has 2 comments

  A Tibetan monk, who was recently arrested for abetting self-immolations, has said that he was instigated by two India-based monks who promised him an iPhone, Chinese official media claimed. ...

• Chinese daily flays West over Tibet 21 December 2012 This post has one comment

  A Chinese newspaper has hit out at the West for pulling up Beijing over self-immolation by Tibetans, saying Western critics needed to shed "stereotypes in their heads". ...

• Our Views: New round of repression This post has no comments yet

  The resentment of Tibet's people against Chinese Communist oppression is being demonstrated anew by a series of protesters who have set fire to themselves over the last few years. ...

• UK expresses concern over Tibetan self-immolations 19 December 2012 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has no comments yet

  Following a European Union statement on self-immolations in Tibet, the United Kingdom joined in to express its concern over the human rights situation in Tibet, and called for resumption of dialogue. ...

• Stay away from Tibet, China tells international community 18 December 2012 This post has 3 comments

  The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday criticised some Western countries addressing the self-immolation protests in Tibet, urged those countries to stop interfering in China's internal affairs. ...

• EU concerned over growing number of Tibetan self-immolations 15 December 2012 | Karafillis Giannoulis This post has no comments yet

  EU high Representative Catherine Ashton announced that EU is "profoundly saddened by the increasing number of Tibetans committing self-immolations, many of them young people." ...

• Chinese court said to punish Tibetan students with prison terms 14 December 2012 | Andrew Jacobs This post has no comments yet

  A Chinese court has sentenced eight Tibetan students to prison for their role in street protests last month that unnerved security forces already coping with a wave of self-immolations. ...

• Exiled Tibetans take musical route to show solidarity with self-immolators 13 December 2012 This post has no comments yet

  Tibetan exiles in Dharamsala organised a 'Sing for Tibet' programme and used music to show solidarity to their compatriots who immolated themselves to protest against China. ...

• Tibet is burning | Xu Zhiyong This post has no comments yet

  On 19 February, an 18-year-old named Nangdrol set himself on fire. In a note left behind, referring to China's ethnic Han majority as "devils," he wrote, "It is impossible to live under their evil law, impossible to bear this torture that leaves no scars." ...

• Dalai Lama works against peace and Buddhism | Lisa Carducci This post has no comments yet

  The Dalai Lama was initially silent about the self-immolations by Tibetans, but later he let spread the notion that there was nothing in Buddhism that forbades suicide and the self-immolators should be considered "brave heroes". ...