Radio Free Asia reported on Tuesday that a Tibetan man protesting against Chinese rule set himself on fire outside the tightly controlled region’s main city of Lhasa. The man self-immolated on Saturday outside an old community hall in Dangxiong county. The report cites an unidentified source in Lhasa as saying the man shouted slogans in support of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. About 40 people have set themselves on fire over the past year and a half in ethnic Tibetan areas of China in protest of what activists say is Beijing’s heavy-handed rule in the region.—AP
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