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Tibetan student Tenzin Choeying self-immolates in India

Choeying is recovering at the hospital. He can speak but has around 50 per cent burns.

By: Eastern Eye Staff

Tibetan student has self-immolated in India after shouting “freedom”, police said Saturday (15), injuring himself critically. The student set himself on fire on Friday (14) at the Central University for Tibetan Studies in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh state. Self-immolation has regularly been used as a protest against China’s actions in Tibet. But Indian police said they are also investigating the 20-year-old’s recent exam failures as being a possible cause for his actions. “We are not entirely clear about the reasons but eyewitnesses told us that he shouted ‘freedom’ before running out, dousing himself with kerosene and setting himself on fire,” Sanjay Tripathi,…

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