Tibet Unrest Gains Momentum
On Saturday, Feb. 12 an 18-year-old nun named Tenzin Choedron from the Mamae Dechen Choekhorling nunnery set herself afire in China's Sichuan province, shouting protest slogans against the Chinese government before setting herself alight, an exile based rights group said.
With nearly two dozen self-immolations and a series of mass protests in the Himalay…
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