9 January 2012, International Campaign for Tibet

Tibetans held a vigil in a Tibetan area of Qinghai province following the self-immolation of a Tibetan, Sonam Wangyal, believed to be a reincarnate lama, yesterday, according to the Tibetan sources in exile.

On Friday (January 6) two Tibetans self-immolated in Ngaba (Chinese: Aba), as confirmed by Xinhua, Chinese state media. According to information from Tibetan exile sources, two Tibetans, Tsultrim and Tennyi, both around 20 years of age, set themselves on fire in the courtyard of a hotel in the center of Ngaba town and ran into the street shouting “His Holiness the Dalai Lama must return to Tibet” and “May His Holiness the Dalai Lama live for 10,000 years!” Tennyi, who is believed to be a monk from Kirti monastery, died on January 6, and Tsultrim, a lay person who may have been a former Kirti monk, died on January 7, according to the same sources. Click here for more

Information about each self-immolation can be found on the factsheet here.