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Suicide

January 13, 2016;

Yeshi Jungney, a camp leader at Mungod Tibetan settlement Camp number one, has committed suicide. Phayul reported that he left a note and it is understood he felt unsupported following an incident which took place at the preliminary election on October 18 last year when he was involved in a scuffle and allegedly manhandled by a monk. Yeshi was a former soldier in the Special Frontier Force.

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