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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Mon Apr 13, 2015, 11:26 AM Apr 2015

Tibetan Nun Yeshi Khando Self-Immolates, Rights Groups Say

BEIJING (AP) — A nun set herself on fire while crying out for the Dalai Lama to return to Tibet in the latest in dozens of self-immolations in recent years by Tibetans protesting Beijing's controls over the region, overseas rights groups said.

Yeshi Khando, 47, of Ngangang Nunnery circled Kardze Monastery in Sichuan province and then self-immolated on Wednesday near the police station while shouting slogans including "Tibet needs freedom," London-based Free Tibet said in a statement Friday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/11/yeshi-khando-self-immolates-tibet_n_7047336.html?utm_hp_ref=religion&ir=Religion

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