Following a brief respite in the wave of self-immolation protests that swept Tibet since 2009, a young Tibetan monk self-immolated on 29 February in Nyarong county, Kardze (incorporated into China’s Sichuan Province), according to media reports.
Showing
no respite in the spate of self-immolation protests against the Chinese
government, a 36-year-old Tibetan woman died after setting herself on
fire on Wednesday, 27 May.