Indtil nu menes i alt 51 tibetanere at have stukket ild til sig selv i år i protest mod undertrykkelse af deres nationalitet og religion – Tibet har været besat i over 60 år, Danmark var det som bekendt i fem.
Two Tibetan teenagers have died after setting themselves on fire in Sichuan province, activists and US media said, according to BBC online Tuesday.
Lobsang Kalsang, an 18-year-old monk, and Damchoek, a 17-year-old former monk, set themselves on fire on Monday morning outside the Kirti Monastery in Aba county, where many of the self-immolations have taken place.
This brings the number of Tibetans who have set themselves on fire since 2009 to 51, the group added. More than half of those who have set themselves on fire are believed to have died.
The young men were shouting slogans against Chinese rule and policies in Tibet as their bodies burned, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported, citing witnesses.
“Witnesses saw them run about 20 steps with their bodies on fire, and then they fell to the ground,” two monks based in India told RFA.
Activist groups and the Tibetan government-in-exile say the self-immolations are protests against tight Chinese control of the region and religious repression
