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Tibetan Monk, 18, Dies After Self-Immolation to Protest Chinese Rule

March 8, 2016;

The New York Times

By EDWARD WONGMARCH 3, 2016

A vigil Wednesday in Dharmsala, India, after a Tibetan monk died in China and a student burned himself but survived in India. Credit Ashwini Bhatia/Associated Press

A vigil Wednesday in Dharmsala, India, after a Tibetan monk died in China and a student burned himself but survived in India. Credit Ashwini Bhatia/Associated Press

BEIJING — A young Tibetan monk died this week after setting himself on fire in Sichuan Province to protest Chinese rule, according to a Tibetadvocacy group. It was the first known act of self-immolation in a Tibetan area of China since August.

The monk, Kalsang Wangdu, 18, set fire to himself on Monday, according to Free Tibet, a group based in London. On the same day, a 16-year-old Tibetan student, Dorjee Tsering, committed the same act in Dehradun, a city in India, while shouting “Free Tibet,” the group said. He survived and was in a hospital in New Delhi.

On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton, the front-runner to be the Democratic presidential candidate, held up a black-and-white photo of Mr. Dorjee while talking in Minnesota to the president of the Tibetan National Congress, an advocacy group.

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