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Suicide Protest

May 8, 2014;

Phakpa Gyaltsen, 32, has died after stabbing himself and then jumping from the roof of a building in Tongbar town, Dzogang, in Tibet’s Chamdo prefecture. Gyaltsen decided “do something” after local protests against a Chinese mine being built in the area were dispersed. He jumped after authorities tried to halt his own protest. Gyaltsen is from the area’s Choeshoe family, and is survived by a wife and three small children, with another child on the way. Phone connections in the area are now blocked.

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