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Breaking: Tibetan monk self-immolates in Nepal
Phayul[Wednesday, February 13, 2013 09:27]
DHARAMSHALA, February 13: A Tibetan monk today set himself on fire today near the holy stupa of Boudhanath in the heart of Nepalese capital city Kathmandu.
In a photo received by Phayul, the monk could be seen engulfed in towering flames. No further information is available on the identity of the monk or his condition, although our sources in the region fear for the worst.
According to eyewitnesses, the monk was severely burned and was later rushed to a hospital.
Further information is awaited.
Across the Himalayas, as many as 99 Tibetans have set themselves on fire protesting China’s occupation and demanding freedom and the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile.
The self-immolation today coincides with the 100 years of the declaration of the “Tibetan Proclamation of Independence” by His Holiness the Great 13th Dalai Lama.
Exile Tibetans and supporters all over the world have planned major events to commemorate the historic event reasserting Tibet’s independence.
In recent years, following growing ties between Nepal and China, Kathmandu has clamped down strictly on Tibetans refugees living in the country.
This is not the first occasion when a Tibetan has set himself on fire in Kathmandu. In November 2011, a Tibetan monk Bhutuk set himself ablaze at the same spot.
He survived his fiery protest and later escaped to India following a large scale manhunt by Nepali police.
Breaking: Monk in Ngaba becomes 100th to self-immolate under China’s rule
Phayul[Wednesday, February 13, 2013 21:41]
DHARAMSHALA, February 13: In confirmed reports, a Tibetan monk set himself on fire on February 3 in the Ngaba region of eastern Tibet protesting China’s continued occupation of Tibet.
Lobsang Namgyal, 37, a monk of the Kirti Monastery has become the 100th known Tibetan to self-immolate under China’s rule since the wave began in 2009.
Following immense security clampdown in the region, the news of Lobsang Namgyal’s fiery protest reached exile on February 13, a day being observed by Tibetan exiles all over the world as the 100th year of His Holiness the 13th Dalai Lama’s Tibetan Proclamation of Independence.
According to the exile base of the Kirti Monastery in Dharamshala, Lobsang Namgyal set himself ablaze near the local police building in Zoege at around 6 am (local time). He passed away at the scene of his protest.
“Lobsang Namgyal, engulfed in flames, shouted slogans for the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama as he ran towards the local police building,” Kirti Monastery said in a release citing sources in the region.
Lobsang Namgyal’s identity was confirmed after Chinese police found his identity card and a letter from inside a bag near the protest site. The contents of the letter are not yet known.
“Chinese security personnel bundled away his body from the site and carried out his cremation without informing his family members,” Kirti Monastery said. “Only his ashes were handed over.”
In September 2012, Lobsang Namgyal had all of a sudden gone missing for two weeks prompting frantic searches from his family members and friends. It was later found out that he was taken into custody by Chinese security personnel for unknown reasons.
Upon his return, local Chinese authorities made it difficult for him to continue his stay at the Monastery and was forced to live with his relatives in the nomadic pastures. However, Chinese officials followed his movements and continued to harass him, the release noted.
Before carrying out his self-immolation protest, Lobsang Namgyal reportedly came to the Kirti Monastery to offer prayers.
Currently, all movement of his relatives are being closely watched by the police and their phone calls are being monitored, the release added. His younger brother, monk Lobsang Sangay, was also detained for a few days following the protest.
Lobsang Namgyal is survived by his father Karkho and mother Kar Kyi and eight brothers and sisters.
Earlier today, a Tibetan monk in the Nepali capital of Kathmandu set himself on fire protesting China’s rule in Tibet. Clear details about the protest and the identity of the monk are still not available.
Tibetan self-immolator passes away, Kathmandu Tibetans hold vigil
[Thursday, February 14, 2013 10:12]
DHARAMSHALA, February 14: The Tibetan monk who self-immolated in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu yesterday has reportedly passed away. Sources have told Phayul that the monk, who is still not clearly identified, breathed his last at the Tribhuwan University Teaching Hospital at around 10:30 pm (local time) Wednesday night.
Doctors at the hospital yesterday confirmed that the monk was in “critical” condition and had received 96 per cent burns.
President of the Human Rights Organisation of Nepal, who went inside the hospital and met with doctors treating the Tibetan self-immolator, cited them as saying that the patient was admitted at the hospital at 8:45 am (local time). Doctors had to make an incision in his throat to ease his breathing and gave him painkillers.
“They said he was speaking in Tibetan initially and after about 5 minutes it stopped,” Sambhu Lama, a member of the group told Phayul yesterday.
Although the group was not able to verify the name of the Tibetan monk, a Tibetan present at the hospital identified him as Lobsang as against the name used by Nepali police, Dhondup Lotsey. He is believed to be below 30 years of age.
The Tibetan monk set himself on fire protesting Chinese rule in Tibet yesterday at around 8:20 am (local time) near the holy Buddhist stupa of Boudhanath.
A police official Keshav Adhikari told AP that the man went inside a cafe, poured gasoline on himself and set himself on fire. The report further quoted a local eyewitness as saying that the monk ran a few steps chanting slogans against China before he collapsed on the ground, engulfed in flames.
Security in the entire region has reportedly been tightened following the protest.
The self-immolation on February 13 also coincided with the 100 years of the declaration of the “Tibetan Proclamation of Independence” by His Holiness the Great 13th Dalai Lama.
Wednesday evening, Tibetan residents of the Samdupling Settlement, Jawalakhel Kathmandu gathered for a secret candle light vigil and a prayer session to express solidarity with Tibetan self-immolators.
One of the organisers told Phayul that all Tibetans, “from infants to the eldest members of the community,” took part in the vigil despite heavy restrictions from the local authorities.
In recent years Nepal has increasingly clamped down on the cultural and political expression of its Tibetan community numbering over 20,000. The country’s increasing dependence on China for financial aid has meant that the freedom of Tibetan refugees have been curtailed. Several Tibetans caught trying to escape Tibet through Nepal have been repatriated in recent years.
Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay, who is currently in the United States told the Times earlier yesterday that the “occupation of Tibet and repression of Tibetans are the primary reason for the self-immolations inside Tibet."
"The solution to the tragedy in Tibet lies with Beijing and my administration is fully committed to dialogue and to address the issue peacefully," Sikyong Sangay said.
Since 2009, as many as 100 known Tibetans, living under China’s rule have set themselves on fire demanding freedom and the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile.
In exile, the Tibetan monk has become the third Tibetan to pass away in a self-immolation protest following Thubten Ngodup in 1998 and Jamphel Yeshi in March 2012.
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