Name: Rinchen Kyi
Age: 32
Status: Died
Father’s Name: Rana
Mother’s Name: Lhakho
Affiliation: Ngaba County
Location of incident: Police station at Kirti Monastery, Ngaba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Ch: Sichuan Province)
Date of Self-immolation: 2012-03-04

Info: A Tibetan mother named Rinchen Kyi self-immolated near a military camp in the vicinity of Kirti monastery in Ngaba town in Ngaba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan. Rinchen Kyi was in her early thirties, and was married to a Tibetan man who had died, It could not be immediately confirmed whether she had three or four children; the youngest was several months old, and the oldest in their early teens. According to Tibetan monks from Kirti who are now in exile, as she set herself ablaze, Rinchen shouted “Return His Holiness to Tibet” and “We need freedom”. She died soon afterwards, according to the same sources. Rinchen was the eldest of eight siblings in her family, from Jiashang township in Ngaba.

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