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                        Two Tibetan Monks Self-Immolate

   Two Tibetan monks set themselves on fire Sunday to protest Chinese
   rule.
   Sources tell VOA`s Tibetan Service, Losang Palden, a monk from the
   Kirtit Monastery in China`s Sichuan province set himself on fire near
   the monastery. Chinese security forces took Palden away but it was not
   clear if he was alive or had died.
   A second monk set himself on fire in an ethnic Tibetan area of
   northwest China.
   The official Chinese news agency Xinhua said the monk was from the
   Shaderi Monastery in Huangnan Tibetan autonomous area in Qinghai
   province. The condition of that monk is also unknown.
   Since 2009, more than 120 Tibetans demanding the return of Tibetan
   leader The Dalai Lama and Tibetan freedom have self-immolated.
   The Tibetan Administration in-exile in Dharamsala, India, has urged
   Tibetans not to take such drastic action, and the U.S. government has
   called on China to resolve the Tibetan issue with a resumption of
   dialogue with the representatives of the Dalai Lama.
   (This report was produced in collaboration with the VOA Tibetan
   service.)
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