The exiled chief abbot of a monastery that has become the flashpoint of sustained Tibetan unrest has appealed to the Chinese government to end a repression campaign seen as the source of an unprecedented string of self-immolations by monks from the area.
Eleven Tibetan monks and nuns from the area around Kirti, a large monastery in Aba, a Tibetan-dominated area of the western Chinese province of Sichuan, have set themselves on fire since this March.
The burnings were a result of a “re-education campaign almost around the clock which has been driving the monks to a point where we Tibetans find it unbearable”, said Kyabje Kirti Rinpoche in a conference call organised by Human Rights in China, a US-based advocacy group, on Wednesday.
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