CHINA-TIBET: SELF-IMMOLATION IN INDIA
A young Tibetan boy aged between 25 and 35 years self-immolated around 3 pm (local time) in Dharamsala, India, on August 1, 2017 on the roadside not far from the Dalai Lama's temple. An eyewitness recounted that they saw the self-immolator on his knees and engulfed in flames that were out of control. Two empty bottles of kerosene or petrol were found at the site of the self-immolation and a Tibetan national flag was found in a bag near the body.
(Comment: This is the first self-immolation to have taken place in Dharamsala, the residence of Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and the Tibetan government in exile.) |