Tibetan nun sets herself on fire in western China

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An 18-year-old Tibetan nun has set herself on fire in western China in the latest such protest against Beijing’s handling of its vast Tibetan regions, an overseas rights group said Sunday.

Free Tibet said in a statement that the nun set herself ablaze Saturday and was believed to have survived. The young woman, identified as Tenzin Choezin, was a nun at the Mamae Nunnery in Sichuan province’s Aba prefecture, the statement said.

Government and police officials reached by telephone in Aba said they knew nothing about the case and hung up.

In October, a 20-year-old nun from the same monastery set herself on fire and died, according to Free Tibet.

More than a dozen monks, nuns and ordinary Tibetans have set themselves on fire over the past year, and Free Tibet says at least 11 died from their injuries. Rights groups say the self-immolations are a protest against China’s policies and a call for the return of the Dalai Lama. The Tibetans’ spiritual leader fled to India amid an abortive uprising against Chinese rule in 1959.

The Chinese government has condemned the self-immolations and says an upsurge in violence in Tibetan areas, including some deadly clashes between Tibetan protesters and security forces, are being instigated by forces outside the country wanting to separate Tibet from China.

The last few months have been the region’s most violent period since 2008, when deadly rioting in Tibet’s capital, Lhasa, spread to Tibetan areas in adjoining provinces. China responded by flooding the area with troops and closing Tibetan regions entirely to foreigners for about a year.

Western reporters trying to visit that part of Sichuan in the last several weeks have been turned away by security forces.

AP

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31 responses to “Tibetan nun sets herself on fire in western China”

  1. Patience2 Avatar

    The Han pukes are learning from (or teaching) the Syrian ‘chinless-twins’, whichever.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar

      Yes Patience … both suffer from the ‘outside influences’. 😉

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    The Han pukes are learning from (or teaching) the Syrian ‘chinless-twins’, whichever.

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      Yes Patience … both suffer from the ‘outside influences’. 😉

  3. chinese and tibatens are same human waist(shit) but they are diferent in smell !!

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar

      Not sure of my smell … but the waist has been getting bigger. You wanna havva sniff yazidi?

      1. i think you ate chinese food then so keep a distance mate blow it some where next to assad family grave yard !!

        1. dabshaleem Avatar

          yu vergin mate mr yu salafite or wahabi mr

    2. First it is waste not waist and Second you sir are a racist and racists ARE THE HUMAN WASTE!

      1. i became racist after chinese veto because they dont care about the human race in syria that been slaughterd whose supporters are the human shit(corrected) like you apparently!! oh by the way(hanniba3er) not hannibal my ass!!

        1. Again you always have your ass in the picture… You MUST be gay. Shit here and shit there out of your mouth. You must have your orifices reversed… What a sight! Besides, what does a Tibetan nun have to do with China? You know Tibet is occupied by China not too differently than when Bashar’s syrian army occupied Lebanon (That was before we kicked their collective Syrian ass out).

        2. We kiked asses here you go you used ass word so don’t blame the others of using it mr polite fiction haniba3er

        3. We kiked asses here you go you used ass word so don’t blame the others of using it mr polite fiction haniba3er

        4. Exactly you made my point… We kicked ass but but never spoke out of one like you do… Give up already ya yatizi yazidi?

        5. Exactly you made my point… We kicked ass but but never spoke out of one like you do… Give up already ya yatizi yazidi?

        6. see.your soo polite you kept on mentioning asses and tizez thats why you called your self 7anna  ba3er
          just for explanation a word ba3er means rats waste(shit but small)

        7. see.your soo polite you kept on mentioning asses and tizez thats why you called your self 7anna  ba3er
          just for explanation a word ba3er means rats waste(shit but small)

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    chinese and tibatens are same human waist(shit) but they are diferent in smell !!

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      Not sure of my smell … but the waist has been getting bigger. You wanna havva sniff yazidi?

  5.  Avatar

    chinese and tibatens are same human waist(shit) but they are diferent in smell !!

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    see.your soo polite you kept on mentioning asses and tizez thats why you called your self 7anna  ba3er
    just for explanation a word ba3er means rats waste(shit but small)

  7. Enlighting and informative debate.

    1. dabshaleem Avatar

      Mantique, yu like debate that poeple no debat they spaek bad word

    2. dabshaleem Avatar

      Mantique, yu like debate that poeple no debat they spaek bad word

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    Enlighting and informative debate.

    1.  Avatar

      Mantique, yu like debate that poeple no debat they spaek bad word

  9. Hannibal ;If I were you I would not answer to people like that by answering they are engaging you in a meaningless argument, like some body said if you argue with ignorant people you always have to loose.

    1. @Rafic:disqus You are absolutely right… I will let go of yatizi… I promise… 🙂

  10. Hannibal ;If I were you I would not answer to people like that by answering they are engaging you in a meaningless argument, like some body said if you argue with ignorant people you always have to loose.

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    Hannibal ;If I were you I would not answer to people like that by answering they are engaging you in a meaningless argument, like some body said if you argue with ignorant people you always have to loose.

    1. @Rafic:disqus You are absolutely right… I will let go of yatizi… I promise… 🙂

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