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From Xinhua News Agency:
"上海市警方确认，9月11日11时许，上海市外滩陈毅广场发生一起自焚事件，自焚者当场死亡。目前，死者身份及自焚原因正在查证之中。The Shanghai police has confirmed a self-immolation incident that happened at Chen Yi Plaza on the Bund at 11am on Sept 11. The self-immolator died on the spot. The identity of the deceased and the reason behind the action is being currently investigated."UPDATE: Xinhua has issued a longer story here. Tim Johnson of China Rises observes:
...censors are blocking all comment on the motives of the man on every website. Was he an activist of the Falun Gong banned movement? Was he a Tibetan Buddhist? How about a disgruntled property rights activist? Whatever the cause, there is a story there, and the government may not want the motive to come out. But at least it’s a step in the right direction to allow Xinhua to report the news.
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---"Was he a Tibetan Buddhist"?
If Tim Johnson has always Tibetens in mind, why cannot he have even a wilder imagination that it was Dalai himself?
Sorrow-stricken with death of his ex-CIA brother and ill as Kim Jong-il and pisssed off with goldless Olympic, it could well be the Lama himself. He also might've done it to remind us ungrateful foreign immigrant workers it was 911 anniversity! How can we forgot it?
Damn I missed the holy touch on my bald head.
Gee, I thought that was leastman protesting the lack of foreign women interested in him. But then again shit smolders instead of bursting into flame.
nanheyangrouchuan,
Go pick up balls you bucket boy. Your master Eastman is still alive kicking azz.
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zack comment FTW! indeed, he does.