Name: Dolkar Tso
Age: 26
Status: Died
Father’s Name: Drukgyal Khar
Mother’s Name: Sangye Tso
Affiliation: Tsoe city, Ganlho
Location of incident: Near Tsoe Gaden Choeling Monastery, Ganlho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Ch: Gansu Province)
Date of Self-immolation: 2012-08-07
Info: Dolkar Tso, who is in her mid-twenties and from a farming family, set fire to herself early this afternoon near a white stupa (reliquary building) at Tsoe Gaden Choeling monastery in Tsoe City (Chinese: Hezuo). According to Tibetan sources in exile from her home area, she called out for the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet, and shouted that there was no freedom in Tibet.
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