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发帖数: 27535 | 1 BEIJING (Reuters) - A Tibetan Buddhist monk burned himself to death on
Monday in southwest China calling for the return of the Dalai Lama, the
exiled spiritual leader condemned by Beijing as a separatist, a group
campaigning for Tibetan self-rule said.
The monk's self-immolation could spark fresh tensions in heavily ethnic
Tibetan parts of Sichuan, which neighbors the official Tibet region,
following protests in March when a Tibetan monk there also burned himself to
death.
The London-based Free Tibet organization said the latest immolation-protest
was carried out by a 29-year-old monk, Tsewang Norbu, who was from a
monastery in Tawu, about 150 km (93 miles) from where the last immolation
happened.
"Tsewang Norbu drank petrol, sprayed petrol on himself and then set himself
on fire," Free Tibet said in an emailed statement, citing an unnamed witness.
"He was heard calling out: 'We Tibetan people want freedom', 'Long live the
Dalai Lama' and 'Let the Dalai Lama Return to Tibet'. He is believed to have
died at the scene," the group said.
China's official Xinhua news agency also reported the monk's self-immolation
, but said "it was unclear why he had burned himself."
Tawu, called Daofu in Chinese, is in a largely ethnic Tibetan part of
western Sichuan that many advocates of self-rule say should form part of a
larger homeland under Tibetan control. Calls from Reuters to the government
and police bureau in Daofu County went unanswered on Monday evening.
Tensions over the fate of the exiled Dalai Lama and his calls for Tibetan
self-determination have continued to dog the region, sometimes flaring into
protests.
In March 2008, Tibetan protests led by monks in Lhasa, the regional capital
of Tibet proper, were suppressed by police and turned violent. Rioters
torched shops and turned on residents, especially Han Chinese, whom many
Tibetans see as intruders threatening their culture.
That unrest spilled over into other ethnic Tibetan parts of China, including
mountainous western Sichuan.
Beijing has repeatedly accused the Dalai Lama of being a separatist who has
abetted violence. China also rejects accusations of oppression of Tibetans,
saying its rule has bought huge benefits to what was a dirt poor society.
The Nobel Peace prize-winning Dalai Lama denies seeking independence for
Tibet, saying he wants a peaceful transition to autonomy for his remote
mountain homeland, which the People's Republic of China has ruled since
troops marched in 1950.
Security forces detained about 300 Tibetan monks from a monastery in western
China for a month amid a crackdown sparked the previous self-immolation,
two exiled Tibetans and a prominent writer told Reuters at the time.
"Today's news exposes how desperate some Tibetans feel," the director of
Free Tibet, Stephanie Brigden, said in the group's email.
After the self-immolation in March, she said, Chinese authorities "deployed
troops on to the streets, imposed curfews, undertook house searches and set
up military round blocks."
(Reporting by Chris Buckley; Editing by Nick Macfie) | m**********n
发帖数: 27535 | 2 "People's Republic of China has ruled since
troops marched in 1950"
现在居然不说中国1950年侵略西藏了，有进步 | A*Q
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