The death this week of a Tibetan villager who threw himself from a building in Tibet’s Chamdo prefecture to oppose construction of a Chinese mine has sparked a wider protest, with area residents demonstrating outside local government offices and another man attempting suicide in their bid to scrap the project, Tibetan sources in exile said.
Phakpa Gyaltsen, 32, jumped to his death on Wednesday in Dzogang (in Chinese, Zuogang) county’s Tongbar town after stabbing himself twice when authorities attempted to halt his protest, sources said.
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