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New Self-Immolation in Sichuan

Another Tibetan set himself on fire in Sichuan’s Aba prefecture early on Wednesday evening, according to India-based monks who gave a statement to Radio Free Asia: The still-unidentified Tibetan man shouted slogans before self-immolating, they said. “The protester appeared to be a monk,” Yeshe and Tsering said, quoting a source, “but his name and place of origin and other details are not known.