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Tibetan Woman Tsepe Kyi Burns Herself To Death In China: reports
Beijing (AFP) - A Tibetan woman died on Tuesday after setting herself on fire in protest at China's rule of the Himalayan region, rights groups and media said.
Tsepe Kyi set herself alight in the centre of a town in Aba county, known in Tibetan as Ngaba county, in southwest Sichuan province, Free Tibet and US-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA) said.
The 20-year-old set fire to herself in "protest against China’s repressive policies", RFA said in a report Tuesday, citing anonymous local sources.
Tsepe had been living with her parents as a nomad at the time of the protest and her brother was taken away by police following her death, RFA said, citing local sources.
The protest is the second this month in the same town where a father of two set himself alight and died, according to International Campaign for Tibet (ICT).
Calls to police and the Aba county government by AFP were not answered.
There have been more than 130 cases of Tibetans setting themselves on fire in China since 2009, most of them fatal, both the ICT and RFA said.
http://news.yahoo.com/tibetan-woman-burns-herself-death-china-reports-033819133.html
Tibetan Woman Tsepe Kyi Burns Herself To Death In China: reports
Beijing (AFP) - A Tibetan woman died on Tuesday after setting herself on fire in protest at China's rule of the Himalayan region, rights groups and media said.
Tsepe Kyi set herself alight in the centre of a town in Aba county, known in Tibetan as Ngaba county, in southwest Sichuan province, Free Tibet and US-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA) said.
The 20-year-old set fire to herself in "protest against China’s repressive policies", RFA said in a report Tuesday, citing anonymous local sources.
Tsepe had been living with her parents as a nomad at the time of the protest and her brother was taken away by police following her death, RFA said, citing local sources.
The protest is the second this month in the same town where a father of two set himself alight and died, according to International Campaign for Tibet (ICT).
Calls to police and the Aba county government by AFP were not answered.
There have been more than 130 cases of Tibetans setting themselves on fire in China since 2009, most of them fatal, both the ICT and RFA said.
http://news.yahoo.com/tibetan-woman-burns-herself-death-china-reports-033819133.html
