Name: Sangye Tso
Age: 36
Sex: Female
Status: businesswoman
Her Salogan written: “Long live His Holiness the Dalai Lama, where is the Panchen Lama, and freedom for Tibetans“
Date of self-immolation: May 27, 2015
location: Chone (Chinese: Zhuoni) county, Kanlho (Chinese: Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture) in Gansu Province
Current whereabouts/wellbeing: Deceased
Sangye Tso set fire to herself and died on May 27 in a township in Chone (Chinese: Zhuoni) county, Kanlho (Chinese: Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture) in Gansu Province, according to Tibetan sources. The location she chose to self-immolate was significant – outside a government building near the monastery of Tashi Choekhorling in Dorkok township. A Tibetan exile source in contact with Tibetans in the area said: “The specific location was the Party and government offices, including the local police station, symbolic to locals of policies of injustice against Tibetans, as well as the main offices to enforce the crackdown against police protest in 2008.”