Controversial reporting by the Chinese Communist Party's mouthpiece. Xinhua News Agency says that no Tibetans have self-immolated inside the Tibetan Autonomous Region. That's despite reports and photos documenting more than a hundred of these protests in the past several years.
Well, Xinhua is citing the regional deputy Communist Party Secretary Padma Choling. He does admit self-immolations happened outside of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, like in neighboring Sichuan, Qinghai and Gansu provinces.
But Choling insists none of the protests happened within Tibet. It turns out, the Communist official is wrong. According to a May 2012 report by the Associated Press, two Tibetan men self-immolated outside a monastery in Lhasa. That's the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region.
In fact, the International Campaign for Tibet says eight self-immolations have happened inside the region since 2009.
Tibetans set themselves on fire as a last attempt to protest against oppressive Chinese rule.
The Chinese regime blames the Dalai Lama for inciting the incidents. The Dalai Lama says he does not encourage the self-immolations, but calls them "understandable".
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