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Going down in flames: Self-immolation in China and Tibet

In Tibet, Tibetan people have been protesting against the Chinese government for the past twenty years.

In the last three years in specific, the wide-scale protests and by the spring of 2008 have been followed by a growing line of personal self-immolations. Tibetan people are doing this because of Tibetan independence and the return of the Dalai Lama, and for Tibetans across the region to come together in loyal unity. Tibetan government don't want them to protest by sacrificing themselves. 87 Tibetans have been confirmed to have self-immolated inside Tibet since 2009. Most of them are males in the age of twenty but there are also some teenagers.

Self- immolation is when people put gasoline on their body and fire themselves.