Section 1: Chronicle of the Iron Hare year fire protests
name unknown, were seriously injured and have been taken to Chengdu for emergency medical treatment. On April 7th, the three young men let off firecrackers outside the police station, saying that they were celebrating the election of a new Kalon Tripa (by the exile community), and shouted slogans such as ‘May HH Dalai Lama live for 10,000 years!’ and ‘Self-government for Tibet!’ They were arrested and beaten by the police. 24 year old Chukpel lost consciousness and was taken to the local hospital, but passed away soon after. The other two were so badly injured that they had to be taken from the local hospital down to Chengdu. Immediately, about 1000 local people gathered outside the police station, protesting “What crime did our people commit?”, “Isn’t it against the law for you to kill someone for no good reason?”, and “You had better find a resolution to this, and we are going to sleep on your doorstep until you do, and we will not be moved!” The police then offered compensation of Y700,000 for Chukpel’s death, and managed to disperse the crowd on that occasion. Chukpel is 24 years old, a native of Gyalrong, and was married into the (locally important) Dzamtang Choeje Migyap Pontsang family. CHENGDU, 22 April 2011 (Xinhua) - The local government of a Tibetan county in southwest China’s Sichuan Province has decided to give legal education in Kirti Monastery, where a young Tibetan monk set himself on fire and died from serious burns last month. The local government of Aba County of Aba Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture said in a circular issued early Friday that the decision was made in light of the “problems” in the monastery as well as illegal activities committed by some of 33