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January 16, 2013

China holds seven over Tibetan's self-immolation
Beijing (AFP) Jan 15, 2013
Police in northwest China have arrested seven people accused of inciting an ethnic Tibetan villager to set himself ablaze, state media said Tuesday. Dozens of ethnic Tibetans, many of them monks and nuns, have set themselves on fire in China in recent years to protest against Beijing's rule over Tibet. Beijing accuses exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama of inciting the spate of burnings and of campaigning for independence. It has ordered judicial departments to file murder charge ... read more

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