Tibetan Self-immolates in Ngaba

A women in Tibet has died after setting herself on fire in the first reported self-immolation protest of 2015. The Free Tibet organization said the woman, Norchuk, was in her forties.  It says she self-immolated Friday near Trotsuk township in Ngaba county.  It says authorities took her remains and cremated her before her family could carry out a funeral. A day later, a monk in Ngaba protested by walking through a town and shouting for the Dalai Lama's return to...

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