Name: Sangye Tso
Age: 36
Status: Died
Father’s Name: –
Mother’s Name: –
Affiliation: Chone County, Ganlho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Incorporated into China’s Gansu Province)
Location of incident: In front of the local police headquarters in Chone County, Ganlho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Incorporated into China’s Gansu Province)
Date of Self-immolation: 2015-05-27

Info: Sangye Tso set fire to herself and died on May 27 in a township in Chone county, Ganlho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu Province, according to Tibetan sources. The location she chose to self-immolate was significant – outside a government building near the monastery of Tashi Choekhorling in Dorkok township. A Tibetan exile source in contact with Tibetans in the area said: “The specific location was the Party and government offices, including the local police station, symbolic to locals of policies of injustice against Tibetans, as well as the main offices to enforce the crackdown against police protest in 2008.”

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