CHINA-INTERNAL: TIBETAN YOUTH SELF IMMOLATES
VOA Tibetan confirmed on May 4, 2017, that a 16-year-old student Chagdor
Kyab from Bora Township, in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the
Amdo region of Gansu province, staged a self-immolation protest on May 2
against Chinese rule, Sources confirming the protest say that the person was taken away
within minutes and that even as of tonight, more than 24 hours after the
incidence, most people in Bora are unaware that a self-immolation took place.
The identity of the man and whether he had stated any reasons for his act is
unknown at present.
(Comment: Since 2009 at least 4 Tibetans from Bora
have self-immolated. This latest incident has brought the number of self-immolations since 2009 by Tibetans
living in China to 149.)
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