How self-immolations affect Tibetans (5)

He neither called police nor sent the injured, but still alive, woman to the hospital, thus delaying Trakhutso's due rescue.

According to Chophel's confession to police, he used his mobile phone to transmit four pictures of the self-immolator, the names of her and her parents and "her statements about the return of the Dalai Lama and freedom of Tibetans" to people abroad.

The four pictures were exactly what some foreign media used in their reports on the incident.

Chophel has since been arrested on suspicion of intentional homicide.

Police found that Trakhutso, who had a problem with her left leg, had sour relations with her husband and his family. More often than not, she was subjected to blame and bullying from her mother-in-law.

During the Spring Festival in 2012, Trakhutso's sister-in-law praised self-immolators in a conversation, saying, "How awesome! What they did was for the return of the Dalai Lama and the undertaking of the Tibetans!"

Four days before Trakhutso ignited herself, she had a physical exam, in which she was diagnosed with a common gynecological disease. It was then that the idea of giving up her life took hold.

Trakhutso went back to her parents' home on Aug. 6. She heard her father say, "Self-immolators, even if killed, are so lucky to have the Dalai Lama atone for their sins with scripture chanting."

Trakhutso got carried away by these statements.

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