Tibetan Buddhist nun burns herself to death in China

[ellisonz]

Source: BBC

3 November 2011 Last updated at 09:13 ET

Qiu Xiang, 35, doused herself in fuel and set herself alight at a road crossing in Sichuan province, said the Chinese news agency, Xinhua.

She is believed to be the eleventh ethnic Tibetan this year to set themselves on fire reportedly in protest against Chinese rule.

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Qiu Xiang is the second Tibetan nun to set herself on fire since the start of the year.

Most of the self-immolations have been by monks in Aba prefecture around the Kirti monastery, which has become a focal point of ethnic Tibetan anger in Sichuan province.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15571017

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This is the 11th self-immolation this year and the latest in a series this fall.

[ZombieHorde]

1. That is hardcore protesting. nt

[McCamy Taylor]

2. Curious. Is China so secular that it will not care? The monks who protested the Vietnam

war by burning themselves were effective in the US because this country loves Religion more than just about any other country I know. Probably because it is a Constitutionally protected "right" and is one of the few things free of government control.

Do folks in China care at all that Buddhist nuns or monks are dying (as opposed to non clergy?). Or are they all simply Tibetans to them?

Are the burnings aimed at the US? Best way to get attention over here. However, as long as Tibet has mineral resources to plunder, I can not see China leaving Tibet any more than Europeans ever thought about backing out of the New World. Colonialism is its own reward.

[ellisonz]

3. Chinese press is heavily censored.

In just about every article I've read on this the Chinese authorities deny anything happened at all while sending hundreds of police with riot gear and fire extinguishers into the street.

The self-immolations are directed at the local Chinese authorities in an attempt to get them from backing off their increasingly repressive measures inside the monasteries and at the world in general It is a cry for help in the dark...

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[SKKY]

5. No pansy-ass suicide bomber here...

...hard core. Fierce.

[ellisonz]

6. They have nothing left to lose.