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Two Tibetan Women Die After Self-Immolation
By EDWARD WONG
Published: March 5, 2012

BEIJING - Two Tibetan women killed themselves by self-immolation in two 
different Tibetan regions of western China over the weekend, according to 
reports by Tibetan exile groups and Radio Free Asia, which is financed by 
the United States government.

The two deaths bring the number of Tibetans who have set fire to themselves 
in western China since March 2011 to at least 24; at least 16 have died.

The Radio Free Asia report said that Rinchen, a 32-year-old widow and mother 
of three, killed herself by self-immolation on Sunday in front of Kirti 
Monastery in the town of Aba, known in Tibetan as Ngaba. A report by Free 
Tibet, an advocacy group, said Rinchen had four children.

On Saturday, a woman who attends a middle school in Maqu County in Gansu 
Province set fire to herself in a vegetable market, Radio Free Asia 
reported. On Monday, the Tibetan Women's Association, an exile advocacy 
group, identified the woman who killed herself as Tsering Kyi, age 19; Free 
Tibet said she was 20.

The group said the two self-immolations were the first by Tibetan laywomen 
in Tibet's history. Previously, only nuns or former nuns had set fire to 
themselves.