Today is another very sad day for Tibetans and their friends worldwide as reports surface of another self-immolation by a Tibetan protesting Chinese rule. Phayul.com has reported on March 29, 2013, Breaking: A monk sets self ablaze in Tibet. Sources have said that a monk from Mogri Monastery located in Luchu in Eastern Tibet has set himself on fire in what was an apparent protest against China’s continuing occupation of Tibet.
Kanyag Tsering of the Dharamsala-based Kirti Monastery, who closely monitors self- immolations inside Tibet, has said, “Kunchok Tenzin set himself ablaze at a road intersection near his monastery at 7pm local time on Tuesday, March 26.” The twenty-eight-year-old Tenzin died from his fiery protest. Tsering added, “Following his self- immolation protest, the local Tibetans carried his charred body inside the monastery premises and cremated it on the same night to prevent the body from falling into Chinese security personnel’s hands.”
Tenzin, who was the son of Lhakho and Lhamo Tso, became a monk in Morgi Monastery at very young age. Now there have been 114 confirmed self-immolations inside of occupied Tibet. Sixteen of these shocking self-immolations took place since the beginning of this year. It appears that due to China’s media blackout and severe security clampdown in Tibet, the news of Kunchok Tenzin’s self-immolation took two days to get to the outside world.
