Tibet man self-immolates to protest China rule

Dorje Rinchen, a farmer in his late 50s, runs after setting himself on fire on the main street in Xiahe in northwestern China's Gansu province, in a file photo taken Oct. 23, 2012, released by London-based rights group Freetibet.org. / AP/Freetibet.org

BEIJING The Tibetan government-in-exile said Sunday that a man died after setting himself on fire in the latest self-immolation protesting Chinese rule.

The exile government based in Dharamsala, India, said the Tibetan self-immolated on Sunday morning in Tongren, a monastery town in western China's Qinghai province. A photo on its website showed a burned body surrounded by monks.

It had no other details.

Dozens of ethnic Tibetans have set themselves on fire in heavily Tibetan regions since March 2011 to protest what activists say is Beijing's heavy-handed rule in the region. Many have called for the return of their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

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A man at Tongren county government said he couldn't hear clearly and asked the AP to call back. Calls then rang unanswered, as did calls to police.

[vincent_80]

In fact, the lives of ordinary Tibetans, which are deemed of no value, have been shamelessly taken advantage of by Dalai and his clique to distain China and achieve their political goals. He doesn't really have the best inertest of Tibetans at heart. He's just put his own interest above those of other Tibetans. Shame on you, Dalai!

[AutumnFoghamar]

Free Tibet!

The point is to draw attention to the repression of the Tibetans by the Chinese.

[jefforsythe]

There are no human rights in Communist China. The cruel Party has murdered 80 million of its own people since 1949.
The Party is attempting the genocide of tens of millions of innocent Falun Gong.
One doctor just left China confessing that he had performed hundreds of cornea removal operations on living donors, including children.
How can anyone with half a heart even think of doing business with a monster like this ?
The Communist Party controls every business in Mainland China, no exceptions. Wake up World. There is no worse crime than the crime against conscience.

[IPonUall2]

Actually not the party, the military. The party issues permits to individuals they deem as worthy, and the military owns many businesses jointly with international corporations there.
There are a lot of private industrialists, but all of them are subject to Chinese contract.

[nohater]

don't see how suicide changes anything, self suicide. wouldn't armed rebellion, some kind of violent revolution, be more effective? even the USA was established by armed and violent revolution against England.

[IPonUall2]

Was India?