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A video was released on Monday showing the most graphic footage of a self-immolation in Tibet this year. Students for a Free Tibet released the footage on Monday. It shows a Tibetan nun burning on a street in Sichuan province. Please be warned, the following story shows graphic images viewers may find disturbing.
Students for a Free Tibet released a video on Monday, November 21st showing 35-year old Tibetan nun Palden Choetso engulfed in flames. She set herself on fire in Dawu in Sichuan Province on November 3rd in the name of Tibetan freedom. It is the 11th case of self-immolation by Tibetans since March this year.
The video also includes footage of a memorial to Choetso, confirming reports that around ten thousand Tibetans gathered in a candlelight vigil before dawn at Nyitso monastery. It goes on to show Chinese security forces converging on the monastery to break up demonstrations.
In New York Students for a Free Tibet are eager to bring up the controversial issue of self-immolation to the public for discussion. Kirti Rinpoche is the spiritual leader of the Kirti monastic community, where many of the self-immolations have happened. He was forced to flee Tibet into exile in 1959. He says that although the Chinese regime has developed Tibet's infrastructure, Tibetan's have increasingly lost out in favor of Han Chinese. He speaks through a translator.
[Kirti Rinpoche, Spiritual Head of Kirti Monastic Community]:
"As for the houses that were built, many houses were built, those houses are inhabited by a lot of Chinese people and as for Tibetan people, they continue to be marginalized."
This marginalization can also be seen in the Chinese regime's limitations on the teaching of Tibetan language.
Ben Hedges, NTD News, New York
