Tibetan Student Self-Immolates

Posted on by tibettruth

A Tibetan schoolgirl self-immolated December 9 in Rebkong, Amdo Region of East Tibet, protesting against  China’s illegal and brutal occupation of Tibet,  and in support of Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

Ms. Bhenchen Kyi, aged 17, set herself on fire in Dokarmo region of Tsekhog, around 8 pm (local Tibetan time).she died following her action. More HERE

2 thoughts on “Tibetan Student Self-Immolates”

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google+ photo

You are commenting using your Google+ account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

w
Cancel

Connecting to %s

Published by tibettruth

A not-for-profit network of individuals who support justice, human rights and independence for the peoples of Tibet and East Turkestan. Based in a number of countries subscribers are actively engaged voluntarily and are wholly supportive and active on the issue of Tibetan independence. We are not a hierarchical organization, there are no offices, nor do we receive or pay salaries, we do not make money from merchandising sales, and rely upon the kindness of individual donors to finance ongoing research and campaigns.