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China: Tibetan Self-Immolates, Draws Protests


China: Tibetan Self-Immolates, Draws Protests   A Tibetan burned himself to death in protest against Chinese rule in Qinghai province Friday, triggering large demonstrations and a security clampdown, local sources said.   Tamdin Thar, from a nomadic family, self-immolated early morning in front of the police station in Chentsa (Jianzha) county in the Huangnan (Malho) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, immediately drawing Chinese security forces who doused the flames and bundled him away,...

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