{"id":288243,"date":"2026-07-06T17:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288243\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T17:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:11:15","slug":"queens-man-dies-after-setting-himself-on-fire-near-un-in-protest-of-chinas-rule-over-tibet-queens-daily-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288243\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens man dies after setting himself on fire near UN in protest of China\u2019s rule over Tibet \u2014 Queens Daily Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">By Ryan Schwach<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">A Queens man set himself on fire last week in protest of the Chinese government\u2019s control over his native Tibet. He later died of his injuries.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Lobga Rangzen, a 52-year-old Uber driver, self-immolated in Manhattan near the United Nations\u2019 headquarters on Thursday, a day after China implemented a new law aimed at forcing minority groups, including Tibetans, to assimilate into Chinese culture. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rangzen lived in Queens, which is home to the largest concentration of Tibetan refugees in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rangzen posted his actions on Facebook in a video that was later deleted. On Thursday, he walked across the street from the United Nations building in Manhattan dressed in monastic clothing and holding a Tibetan flag. He then set himself on fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Before his final act, he recorded a video message arguing for Tibet\u2019s independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cToday, if I engage in an alarming activism, it is not because I do not have food, or clothes or out of sadness. I do it for the Tibetan nation,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd since I am doing it for the cause of the Tibetan nation, whatever action is necessary to be done for the cause of Tibet, must all be continued.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ryan Schwach A Queens man set himself on fire last week in protest of the Chinese government\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-288243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}