101th Tibetan dies in self immolation

A Tibetan man burnt himself to death in protest against Chinese rule, reports and Western rights groups said yesterday, bringing the total to have set themselves on fire to at least 101 since 2009.
US-based Radio Free Asia said the man, Lobsang Namgyal, who it described as a former monk, self-immolated last week near a police station in Aba prefecture, a Tibetan area of Sichuan province in southern China.