Tag Archives: Self-immolation

• TYC marches in Delhi to highlight 150 self-immolations in Tibet 29 May 2017 | Tibet Sun Newsroom This post has one comment

  President Tenzin Jigme said that the UN have a responsibility to intervene, as what is happening in Tibet affects the surrounding Asian nations and even the world at large. ...

• Tibetan monk sets himself on fire in western China 17 April 2017 | Matthew Brown This post has 7 comments

  A Tibetan Buddhist monk set himself on fire in western China in apparent protest against Beijing's rule over the restive region, a monitoring group and a radio station said. ...

• Tibetan youth in Nyarong sets self on fire in anti-China protest 19 March 2017 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 4 comments

  Pema Gyaltsen, 24, set himself on fire on Saturday near Tsoga monastery in Nyarong, in the Kham region of Tibet, and the Chinese police took away his body. ...

• Tibetan monk in Machu self-immolates in protest 8 December 2016 | Christopher Bodeen This post has 2 comments

  Thursday's self-immolation was the first known to have occurred since spring, perhaps reflecting stepped-up security measures in Tibetan areas, where most such incidents have occurred. ...

• John Whalen-Bridge speaks on his book “Tibet on Fire” 30 September 2016 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has no comments yet

  What can you do, how can you make the message, defeat the Chinese money-power-cultural-censorship? Write about these things, make movies, make music, with the highest quality, so it endures. ...

• Please, my sons and my daughters of Tibet, do not self-immolate 13 March 2016 This post has one comment
• Thousands take part in Dorje Tsering’s final journey 6 March 2016 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has one comment

  Thousands of grieving Tibetans and their supporters took part in the funeral of 16-year-old schoolboy Dorje Tsering, who died after setting himself on fire to protest against Chinese rule in Tibet. ...

• Hundreds honour Dorje Tsering for his sacrifice for Tibet 5 March 2016 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has no comments yet

  Hundreds of exile Tibetans lined up at McLeod Ganj main square as the body of Tibetan martyr Dorje Tsering was brought to the headquarters of the Tibetan Youth Congress. ...

• First self-immolation of year reported in Tibetan region 2 March 2016 | Christopher Bodeen This post has no comments yet

  A Tibetan Buddhist monk set himself on fire and died in a protest against Chinese rule, in the first such action of its kind this year, a US government-funded radio station said Wednesday. ...

• Boy sets himself on fire in Dehra Dun for free Tibet | Abishek Angad This post has 2 comments

  The incident took place while Tsering and his family were visiting his uncle in Dehra Dun. It took the ambulance six hours to reach Delhi. ...