Self-immolation protests by Tibetans in China
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As of May 2022, 160 monks, nuns, and ordinary people have self-immolated in Tibet[1][2][3][4] since 27 February 2009, when Tapey, a young monk from Kirti Monastery, set himself on fire in the marketplace in Ngawa City, Ngawa County, Sichuan.[5] According to the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT),[6] "Chinese police have beaten, shot, isolated, and disappeared self-immolators who survived."[7]
In 2011, a wave of self-immolations by Tibetans in Tibet, as well as in India and Nepal, occurred after the self-immolation of Phuntsog of 16 March 2011 in Ngawa County, Sichuan. Protests are ongoing.[8]