The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) invited the Chinese authorities to send an investigative team to Dharamsala to prove their assertion that the self-immolations are incited by the CTA and H.H. the Dalai Lama. This follows a Xinhua report alleging that 2 Tibetans have confessed that H.H. the Dalai Lama has instructed Tibetans to self-immolate.