Self-Immolator Hospitalized
2012-06-21

Tibetan witnesses to the fiery protest shouted slogans of support.

Photo courtesy of Lobsang Sangay.

Two Tibetans (hidden) self-immolating in Dzatoe township in Qinghai, June 20, 2012.

A Tibetan protester who set himself ablaze this week in China’s Qinghai province is being treated under guard in a hospital in the provincial capital Xining, according to an exile source.

Ngawang Norphel, 22, was one of two young Tibetans who self-immolated on Wednesday in Dzatoe township, Tridu county, in Qinghai’s Yulshul (in Chinese, Yushu) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in a protest against Chinese rule in Tibetan areas.