Tibetan Schoolboy Who Set Himself Alight Dies

A Tibetan schoolboy living in India has died four days after setting himself on fire to protest Chinese rule, according to hospital officials in New Delhi. Dorje Tsering, 16, died from a cardiac arrest late on Thursday at the hospital where he was taken after setting himself ablaze at a housing settlement for Tibetan refugees in the northern city of Dehradun on Monday. As he lay dying, his face disfigured by scarring and breathing with the aid of machines, a person at his bedside began...

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