Record
SI-036
Date
Place
Main road of Cha township, Ngaba (Ch: Aba) County
Region
Amdo
Age
20
Affiliation
Ganden Tenpeling Monastery, Raruwa (monk)
Outcome
Died CTA lists: Died on 28/03/12.

What happened

According to ICT, citing Kirti monks in exile, Lobsang Sherab, a 20-year-old monk of the small Ganden Tenpeling Monastery in Raruwa, Ngaba, carried out a self-immolation protest in Cha township on 28 March 2012. He had been a monk there since the age of nine and had gone to study at Kirti Monastery the previous October, returning home two days before his protest.

Aftermath

According to Kirti monks in exile cited by ICT, Chinese armed police removed his body at once and ignored pleas to hand it to his family; a Kirti monk said some 300 Chinese officials were stationed at Kirti Monastery and Chinese armed and special police maintained a security clampdown across Ngaba.

Sources & References

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