{"id":133762,"date":"2012-03-17T23:02:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T06:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=133762"},"modified":"2012-03-17T23:02:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T06:02:05","slug":"thousands-gather-for-funeral-of-self-immolation-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/03\/thousands-gather-for-funeral-of-self-immolation-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Gather for Funeral of Self-Immolation Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/03\/self-immolations-protests-continue-in-western-china\/\">large-scale protests in Tongren, Qinghai in response to the self-immolation of a Tibetan monk<\/a> last week, the<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/thousands-mourn-tibetan-immolator-china-15946993#.T2VuW8xt47A\"><strong> funeral of a farmer who self-immolated Saturday turned into a gathering of thousands of Tibetans, AP reports<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nU.S. broadcaster Radio Free Asia said in an emailed statement that Sonam Thargyal, a 44-year-old farmer and father of four, fastened cotton padding to his body with iron wire and doused himself with kerosene before setting himself on fire Saturday in Tongren, a monastery town in western China&#8217;s Qinghai province. He also drank kerosene, the broadcaster said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Tibetans who were at the scene attempted to put out the flames, but death was very fast because of the kerosene inside and outside the body,&#8221; RFA quoted Dorjee Wangchuk, a Tibetan exiled in Dharamsala, India, with close ties to the Tongren community, as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Thargyal called out for an end to Chinese rule in Tibetan-populated areas, the return of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan language rights, RFA said.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 7,000 Tibetans took part in Thargyal&#8217;s funeral and cremation ceremony, the broadcaster said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/02\/an-ambivalent-china-affirms-the-charisma-of-the-dalai-lama\/\"> earlier report from the Financial Times (via CDT)<\/a> had said that relations between Tibetans and Han authorities in Qinghai were more peaceful than those in Sichuan, where most of the self-immolations have been occurring. <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/self-immolation\/\">Dozens of Tibetans, both monks and lay people, have self-immolated <\/a>in the past three years, with cases increasingly in frequency in recent months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following large-scale protests in Tongren, Qinghai in response to the self-immolation of a Tibetan monk last week, the funeral of a farmer who self-immolated Saturday turned into a gathering of thousands of Tibetans, AP reports: U.S. broadcaster Radio Free Asia said in an emailed statement that Sonam Thargyal, a 44-year-old farmer and father of four, 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