{"id":183020,"date":"2015-04-17T17:35:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T00:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=183020"},"modified":"2015-04-17T17:35:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T00:35:27","slug":"rfa-tibetan-man-dies-after-self-immolation-in-sichuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/04\/rfa-tibetan-man-dies-after-self-immolation-in-sichuan\/","title":{"rendered":"RFA: Tibetan Man Dies After Self-Immolation in Sichuan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">According to U.S. government-funded Radio Free Asia, a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/tibet\/second-04162015130336.html\">Tibetan father of seven in his mid-forties self-immolated on April 15<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0He becomes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savetibet.org\/resources\/fact-sheets\/self-immolations-by-tibetans\/\">139th Tibetan to self-immolate in protest of Beijing&#8217;s policies in Tibetan regions since 2009<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/12\/world\/asia\/nun-sets-herself-on-fire-to-protest-chinese-rule-in-tibet.html\">second to do so this month<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nei Kyab, believed to be in his mid-40s, set himself ablaze on April 15 in the courtyard of his home in Soruma village, Choejema town, in Ngaba (in Chinese, Aba) county in the Ngaba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, a local source told RFA\u2019s Tibetan Service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was protesting against Chinese policies in Tibet,\u201d RFA\u2019s source said, adding, \u201cHis body was taken away by police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before staging his fiery protest, Kyab had set out offerings on an altar with photos of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama, Tibetan Buddhism\u2019s second-highest ranking spiritual leader.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]\u00a0A brother-in-law, Dargye, was one of two men who self-immolated in a similar protest in Tibet\u2019s regional capital Lhasa in May 2012, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, a Tibetan living in exile confirmed Kyab\u2019s protest and death, citing local sources. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/tibet\/second-04162015130336.html\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this week, Beijing released a <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/04\/china-to-dalai-lama-put-aside-illusions-and-face-up-to-reality\/\">white paper telling the Dalai Lama to &#8220;put aside illusions&#8221;<\/a> about resuming talks with Beijing, and accusing him of encouraging Tibetans to self-immolate. The Dalai Lama has remained <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/11\/dalai-lama-choice-silence-immolations\/\">mostly silent on the issue, saying he has little other choice<\/a>. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/dalai-lama-xi-jinping-self-immolation-pot\/\">This is very, very sensitive political issue. Whatever I say the Chinese hardliners always manipulate<\/a>,\u201d he said last year in an interview with TIME.<\/p>\n<p>For a <a href=\"https:\/\/tibetdata.github.io\/projects\/selfimmolationData\/index.html\">data analysis of the Tibetan self-immolations<\/a>, see the Tibet Data GitHub page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to U.S. government-funded Radio Free Asia, a Tibetan father of seven in his mid-forties self-immolated on April 15.\u00a0He becomes the 139th Tibetan to self-immolate in protest of Beijing&#8217;s policies in Tibetan regions since 2009, and the second to do so this month: Nei Kyab, believed to be in his mid-40s, set himself ablaze on 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