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Self-immolator’s Body Cremated

September 20, 2013;

Over a month later, Nepal authorities have secretly cremated the remains of Karma Ngedon Gyatso, the monk who self-immolated in Kathmandu, Nepal. Authorities secretly burned the body at a cremation site on September 2, a source told Radio Free Asia. Repeated requests from various rights groups to return the body to perform traditional death ceremonies for the deceased were denied.

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