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The funeral took place at Lucerne in Switzerland of Tashi Namgyal, 32, the Tibetan asylum seeker who committed suicide last month on a railway line. His suicide note called for independence for Tibet and freedom from Chinese rule, and asked the Swiss government to give asylum to the 300 Tibetan asylum seekers whose applications, like his, had been refused. Over 350 Tibetans attended his funeral.
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