Name: Nyingkar Tashi
Age: 24
Status: Died
Father’s Name: Tashi Namgyal
Mother’s Name: Khando Tso
Affiliation: Rebgong in Malho Tibet Autonomous Prefecture
Location of incident: Rebgong in Malho Tibet Autonomous Prefecture (China’s Qinghai Province)
Date of Self-immolation: 2012-11-12
Info: Twenty-four year old Nyangkar Tashi set fire to himself while Tibetans were gathering to pray for a young Tibetan mother, Tamdrin Tso, who self-immolated and died on November 7 in Dowa township in Rebkong county, Malho (Chinese: Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province. It was after the official visit, at around 3:15 p.m. on November 12 at Kadmar Thang in Dowa, that Nyangkar Tashi set fire to himself, calling for the long life of the Dalai Lama and a free Tibet. The same sources said: “At that time, there were lot of people there who were praying and paying their respects to Tamdrin Tso and Jinpa Gyatso. People did not allow Chinese police to take Nyangkar Tashi’s remains but brought his corpse back to his village, Drotsang in Dowa.”
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