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Shichung’s Remains

October 2, 2013;

The remains of Shichung, the father of two who set himself on fire on Saturday have been thrown into a river. According to an exile source, some monks and the family members of the deceased approached the authorities to collect his ashes, but the police barred them from taking the remains and compelled the family to throw them into the Ngachu river.

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