As of May 2022, 160 monks, nuns, and ordinary people have self-immolated in Tibet[1][2][3][4] since 27 February 2009, when Tapey, a young monk from Kirti Monastery, set himself on fire in the marketplace in Ngawa City, Ngawa County, Sichuan.[5] According to the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT),[6] "Chinese police have beaten, shot, isolated, and disappeared self-immolators who survived."[7]
In 2011, a wave of self-immolations by Tibetans in Tibet, as well as in India and Nepal, occurred after the self-immolation of Phuntsog of 16 March 2011 in Ngawa County, Sichuan. Protests are ongoing.[8]
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She was the second woman to set herself on fire this year and the 138th Tibetan to do so since 2009 in Tibetan regions ruled by China, according to the International Campaign for Tibet, an advocacy group based in Washington.
- ^ "Self-immolations". International Campaign for Tibet. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
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