12th Tibetan sets himself on fire in anti-China protest. DHARAMSHALA, INDIA (BNO NEWS) -- A former Tibetan monk set himself on fire on Thursday in protest against Chinese rule in Tibet, a rights group reported on Friday.
He is the twelfth Tibetan to have self-immolated this year. According to the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), former monk Tenzin Phuntsog set himself on fire on Thursday in the town of Chamdo in the eastern Tibet Autonomous Region of China. He is believed to have survived the incident and has been hospitalized. Few other details about the incident were available, but Phuntsog is the latest in a series of Tibetans who have self-immolated this year. Action For Tibetan Political Prisoners. Image:tchrd Situated in the north eastern outskirts of Lhasa, Drapchi is the largest prison in Tibet, although there are many more – some concealed by titles such as ‘re-education centres’ or ‘reform through labour camps’.
Opened in 1965 and built with forced labour it is known in Chinese as Di Yi Jianyu-No 1. Italian Council Concerned Over Human Rights Violation in Tibet. Wednesday, 01 June 2011 18:22 Samuel Ivor, The Tibet Post International Dharamshala-An agenda of human rights for Beijing to adhere to has been prepared by the Regional Council of Piedmont - Italy.
The agenda was requested by the Association Tibet and Human Rights, and unanimously approved by the Regional Council of Piedmont, on the meeting commencing on the 26th of May. The meeting stated that, in aid of Tibetans being persecuted in their homeland, Beijing must stop: ‘The continuous mass deportation of Tibetan nomadic shepherds and farmers to the ‘socialist villages', a forced transfer that deprived 2,000,000 Tibetans of every means of subsistence - assuming a form of a real ethnic cleansing in many areas of the country'.
The meeting in Northern Italy also stated that Chinese authorities must stop the campaign of "patriotic re-education,' launched by the central authorities in [recent] months, in order to force the monks of all the Tibetan monasteries to the abjuration'.