Tibetan Student Self-Immolates In Protest Of Chinese Occupation

Lhamo Tashi Offered His Life To Protest China's Illegal & Violent Occupation Of Tibet — Lhamo Tashi Offered His Life To Protest China’s Illegal & Violent Occupation Of Tibet

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A Tibetan student from Tsoe City in Amdo region of occupied Tibet, self-immolated September 17 in protest of China’s illegal and violent rule in Tibet, the 22 year-old sacrificed himself outside Chinese security offices.

According to a VOA bulletin: “His family who live in Drukdo village, Amchok township, were informed of their son’s self-immolation by the security police who told them that he had died. However when family members traveled to Tsoe the next day and requested that their son’s body be given to them, the police told them that Tashi had been cremated already and then gave the family a some ash which they told the family were that of their son. Lhamo Tashi’s father is Chopa Tsering and his mother’s name is Dhukar Tso.”