KATHMANDU: A Tibetan woman is the latest reported self-immolation in China's Western Qinghai province, the RFA Tibetan Kham news service reported. The unnamed woman reportedly set herself on fire last week to protest China's land confiscation policies. The woman is a resident of Qinghai's Yulshul Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and self-immolated on June 27 in the township of Jyekundo, also called Gyegu, residents told RFA's Tibetan Kham. “The woman is the daughter of a local man named Petse," said a Jyekundo resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “She moved to the area a couple of years ago and the self-immolation was in protest against the confiscation of her residence," the man said. In recent months, Tibetans have become more forceful in their protests against China's control of Tibet, with dozens lighting themselves on fire. In Nepal's capital, one Tibetan man told Bikyamasr.com that they “do this because there is nothing else."
