Name: Dolma

Age: 31

Sex: Female

Status: Nun

Date of self-immolation: March 29, 2014

Protest location: Bathang county, Sichuan (the Tibetan area of Kham)

Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Unknown

Info: A Tibetan, reported to be 31-years-old, called Dolma set fire to herself outside a monastery on March 29, the first self-immolation in Bathang county, Sichuan (the Tibetan area of Kham).

When Tibetans who were circumbulating the Ba Choede monastery, a traditional religious practice, witnessed the self-immolation, they managed to extinguish the flames and take Dolma to hospital.

Name: Dolma

Age: 31

Sex: Female

Status: Nun

Date of self-immolation: March 29, 2014

Protest location: Bathang county, Sichuan (the Tibetan area of Kham)

Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Unknown

Info: A Tibetan, reported to be 31-years-old, called Dolma set fire to herself outside a monastery on March 29, the first self-immolation in Bathang county, Sichuan (the Tibetan area of Kham).

When Tibetans who were circumbulating the Ba Choede monastery, a traditional religious practice, witnessed the self-immolation, they managed to extinguish the flames and take Dolma to hospital.

Name: Lobsang Palden

Age: 20

Sex: Male

Status: monk at Kirti monastery

Date of self- immolation: March 16, 2014

Protest location: Ngaba (Chinese: Aba) county town

Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Unknown

Info: [ RFA ] “The monks, citing local contacts, said Palden self-immolated to protest “against the violent crackdown on the Tibetans” on March 16, 2008 in Ngaba when Chinese police opened fire on a crowd of Tibetans, killing at least 10, including one monk.”

Name: Lobsang Palden

Age: 20

Sex: Male

Status: monk at Kirti monastery

Date of self- immolation: March 16, 2014

Protest location: Ngaba (Chinese: Aba) county town

Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Unknown

Info: [ RFA ] “The monks, citing local contacts, said Palden self-immolated to protest “against the violent crackdown on the Tibetans” on March 16, 2008 in Ngaba when Chinese police opened fire on a crowd of Tibetans, killing at least 10, including one monk.”

Age: Unknown

Sex: Male

Status: Monk

Date of self- immolation: March 16, 2014

Protest location: Tsekhog (Zeku) county in Qinghai province’s Malho (Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Unknown

Info: [ RFA ] “In the other self-immolation on Sunday, a monk set himself on fire outside the Sonag monastery in Tsekhog county’s Jador township, exile sources said.”

Age: Unknown

Sex: Male

Status: Monk

Date of self- immolation: March 16, 2014

Protest location: Tsekhog (Zeku) county in Qinghai province’s Malho (Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Unknown

Info: [ RFA ] “In the other self-immolation on Sunday, a monk set himself on fire outside the Sonag monastery in Tsekhog county’s Jador township, exile sources said.”

Age: 25

Sex: Male

Status: Former Monk at Kirti Monastery

Date of self- immolation: February 13, 2014

Protest location: Ngaba (Chinese: Aba) county town

Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Unknown

Info: A former Kirti monk set fire to himself on February 13, on the main road near the monastery in Ngaba (Chinese: Aba) county town, after attending a monastic mask dance that morning. Twenty-five year old Lobsang Dorje was still alive when he was taken away by police. Kirti monks in exile said: “As they were driving him away in the back of a pickup van covered with black canvas, he sat up and joined his palms, but the policemen pushed him back down. At present it is not known whether he is alive or dead, or where he has been taken.”

Lobsang Dorje, from Chukle Gongma nomadic area in Cha Ruwa, Ngaba (Chinese: Aba) set fire to himself in the same street as Kirti monk Tapey, who was the first Tibetan in Tibet to self-immolate five years ago this month in February 2009.

Age: 25

Sex: Male

Status: Former Monk at Kirti Monastery

Date of self- immolation: February 13, 2014

Protest location: Ngaba (Chinese: Aba) county town

Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Unknown

Info: A former Kirti monk set fire to himself on February 13, on the main road near the monastery in Ngaba (Chinese: Aba) county town, after attending a monastic mask dance that morning. Twenty-five year old Lobsang Dorje was still alive when he was taken away by police. Kirti monks in exile said: “As they were driving him away in the back of a pickup van covered with black canvas, he sat up and joined his palms, but the policemen pushed him back down. At present it is not known whether he is alive or dead, or where he has been taken.”

Lobsang Dorje, from Chukle Gongma nomadic area in Cha Ruwa, Ngaba (Chinese: Aba) set fire to himself in the same street as Kirti monk Tapey, who was the first Tibetan in Tibet to self-immolate five years ago this month in February 2009.

Date: February 5, 2014
Protest location: Dokarmo town in Tsekhog (Chinese: Zeku) in Malho (Chinese: Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, the Tibetan area of Amdo
Age: Late twenties

Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Deceased

Info: Phagmo Samdup set fire to himself at around 9:30pm in the evening. It appears that not many people were outside to witness the self-immolation. Police on patrol extinguished the fire and took Phagmo Samdup away, and it is not known if he survived, Tibetan sources said, adding he had been taken to Tsekhog county town.

Date: February 5, 2014
Protest location: Dokarmo town in Tsekhog (Chinese: Zeku) in Malho (Chinese: Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, the Tibetan area of Amdo
Age: Late twenties

Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Deceased

Info: Phagmo Samdup set fire to himself at around 9:30pm in the evening. It appears that not many people were outside to witness the self-immolation. Police on patrol extinguished the fire and took Phagmo Samdup away, and it is not known if he survived, Tibetan sources said, adding he had been taken to Tsekhog county town.