Tibetan Exiles Mourn Self-Immolated Tibetans

Tibetan exiles carry Tibetan flags and a portrait of the spiritual leader Dalai Lama, center, during a candlelit vigil in Dharmsala, India, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 to express solidarity with Lobsang Lozin, an 18-year-old Tibetan monk whom they say died of self-immolation in southwestern China’s Sichuan province. The International Campaign for Tibet says 42 Tibetans have self-immolated since March 2011. Activists say the self-immolations are in protest of Beijing’s heavy-handed rule in the region. The Chinese government has confirmed some but not all of the deaths by self-immolation. <AP/NEWSis>

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