Name: Konpe
Age: 30’s
Status: Died
Father’s Name: Gyakyap
Mother’s Name: Trindok
Affiliation: Chukle Gongma pastoral community in Cha village, Ngaba county (incorporated into China’s Sichuan Province)
Location of incident: Main Road near Kirti monastery, Ngaba County (incorporated into China’s Sichuan Province)
Date of Self-immolation: 2017-12-23

Info: A young Tibetan man called Konpe set fire to himself on December 23 (2017) and died in Ngaba, close to the site of the first self-immolation in Tibet eight years ago. Konpe, who was aged around 30, was taken away immediately by police. By the morning of December 24 he had died, according to two monks from Kirti monastery in exile in Dharamsala, India.

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