A Tibetan taxi driver has set herself on fire and died in the latest of dozens of protests against Chinese rule over the Himalayan region, overseas rights groups said.
Chagmo Kyi, a mother of two, self-immolated Saturday afternoon in a square in Tongren county in western China's Qinghai province, the eighth self-immolation in the Tongren area since Nov. 4, the Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet said in an email.
According to the group, 75 people have self-immolated in ethnically Tibetan areas since February 2009, and most of them have died.
Tibet support groups overseas say an increase in protests the past two weeks was meant to highlight Tibetans' unhappiness with Chinese rule as the country's leaders handed over power to younger successors at a Communist Party congress in Beijing.
Read more at Times Online, published 17 November 2012.
A Tibetan taxi driver has set herself on fire and died in the latest of dozens of protests against Chinese rule over the Himalayan region, overseas rights groups said.
Chagmo Kyi, a mother of two, self-immolated Saturday afternoon in a square in Tongren county in western China's Qinghai province, the eighth self-immolation in the Tongren area since Nov. 4, the Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet said in an email.
According to the group, 75 people have self-immolated in ethnically Tibetan areas since February 2009, and most of them have died.
Tibet support groups overseas say an increase in protests the past two weeks was meant to highlight Tibetans' unhappiness with Chinese rule as the country's leaders handed over power to younger successors at a Communist Party congress in Beijing.
Read more at Times Online, published 17 November 2012.