A Tibetan mother of five has burned herself to death in southwestern China’s Sichuan province in a challenge to Beijing’s rule in the second such protest in a Tibetan area of China this year, a source in the region told RFA’s Tibetan Service.

Sonam Tso, believed to have been in her 50s, self-immolated on March 23 near a monastery in Dzoege (in Chinese, Ruo’ergai) county in the Ngaba (Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, RFA’s source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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• 145 Tibetans have self-immolated in Tibet and China since February 27, 2009. A Rinpoche and his niece, died in a fire – according to information from the Tibetan government in exile and Woeser, this may have been a self-immolation that was later erroneously described as a house fire. See details below on Thubten Nyandak Rinpoche and his niece Atse.
• 118 men, 27 women
• 117 of the 145 are known to have died following their protest
• 25 of the Tibetans who self-immolated were 18 or under
• 45 of the 145 are from Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province
• 13 of the 145 were monks at Kirti monastery in Ngaba
• 11 of the 145 are former monks at Kirti monastery in Ngaba (It is currently not known who of the nine chose to disrobe, or were expelled from the monastery by government authorities)
• Two of the 145 were nuns from Mame Dechen Chokorling nunnery in Ngaba
• 144 of the self-immolations have occurred since March 16, 2011
• Eight self-immolations by Tibetans have occurred in exile  https://www.savetibet.org/resources/fact-sheets/self-immolations-by-tibetans/