1) Lobsang Jinpa (http://www.tchrd.org/press/2008/pr20080404a.html) committed suicide on 27 March 2008. He was a monk at the Ngaba Kirti Monastery, Ngaba County, Ngaba "TAP" Sichuan Province. He hailed from Ngasib Village in Amdo Ngaba. In his signed suicide note, Lobsang stated, "the Chinese government has leveled false allegations against the monks of Kirti Monastery for leaking State Secrets to the outside world, leading and organizing the protests and for keeping the dead bodies of Tibetan protesters shot dead by the Chinese security forces. However, all the charges leveled by the Chinese government were not committed by anyone in Kirti Monastery, but carried out solely by me". The note further stated "I led the peaceful protest, and I am solely responsible for the protest". The suicide note carried a poignant end line, it reads, "I do not want to live under the Chinese oppression even for a minute, leave aside living for a day."

2) Legtsok (http://www.tchrd.org/press/2008/pr20080404a.html), 75 years old, committed suicide on 30 March 2008. He was a monk at the Ngaba Gomang Monastery in Ngaba County, Ngaba "TAP", Sichuan Province. Days before committing suicide, Legtsok accompanied by two other monks while on their way to perform prayer rituals at a house of a Tibetan family encountered a large contingent of Chinese security forces heading towards their monastery, Ngaba Gomang Monastery, to quell the protesting monks at the monastery. The forces brutally beat Legtsok and detained him for a few days. Later he was released and sent back to the monastery.

3)Thoesam (http://www.tibet.net/en/index.php?), 29 years old, committed suicide on 16 April 2008. He hailed from Mehu-ru-mah Village and was a monk at the Ngaba Kirti Monastery, Ngaba County, Ngaba "TAP" Sichuan Province. He committed suicide for being unable to bear the pressure and repression that was being imposed by the Chinese govt.

4)Trangma (http://www.tibet.net/en/flash/2008/0708/21C0708.html) committed suicide on 18 June 2008. He was a monk at Drapa Yangden Monastery, Minyag Township, Nyagchuka County, Kardze "Tibet Autonomous Prefecture" ("TAP"), Sichuan. During the "patriotic reeducation" at the monastery, the authorities made the monks denounce the Dalai Lama and perform other sacrileges according Buddhist faith. Unable to bear the circumstances, he cut short his life to escape the religious blasphemy and denunciation of his spiritual guru, the Dalai Lama. The deceased monk's aged mother and other monks in the monastery were threatened with consequences if they speak to the outside world about his suicide. As part of the "patriotic reeducation" the school under the monastery with around 30 novice monk students was closed down by the Chinese authorities.

5)Thokmey a.k.a Tsangpa Thokmey (http://www.tchrd.org/publications/hr_updates/2008/hr200809.html) (prefix name used of his origin place) committed suicide on 22 March 2008. He was a monk at the Ramoche Temple in Lhasa. He committed suicide following massive crackdown by the Public Security Bureau (PSB) and People's Armed Police (PAP) forces in Ramoche Temple.

6)Namdrok Khakyab (http://www.tchrd.org/press/2009/pr20090210.html) committed suicide on 19 March 2008. He was a visiting scholar at Samye Monastery from the Dorjee Drak Monastery. He hailed from Nyemo County, Lhasa Municipality, "Tibet Autonomous Region" ("TAR"). He left behind a suicide note that accused of unbearable suppression by the Chinese authorities and cited innocence of other monks of the monastery and took full responsibility for the demonstrations.

(7)Tashi Sangpo (http://www.tchrd.org/press/2009/pr20090323b.html) committed suicide on 21 March 2009. He was severely subjected to harsh beatings, inhumane torture and long interrogation in a local detention centre since his arrest on 10 March 2009. Extensive torture and interrogation finally took its toll on Tashi Sangpo's mental state, which eventually forced him to take his own life by jumping into Machu River.

(8)Tusong (http://www.savetibet.org/media-center) committed suicide on 16 April 2008. He was a 19-years-old blind monk at Kirti Monastery and originally hailed from a village nearby Ngaba County, Sichuan Province. Reportedly he told his family that just as those with eyes cannot endure what is happening, "even I, a blind person, cannot endure it".

(9)An unnamed nun (http://www.savetibet.org/media-center) in her thirties from Cholung nunnery committed suicide on 12 April 2008. She was traumatized by the beatings she witnessed by armed security forces after a demonstration in Tashigang Township, Meldrogungkar, Lhasa.

(10)Three unnamed monks (http://www.savetibet.org/media-center) from Dugu Monsatery committed suicide in an act that may have been in protest against the crackdown and subsequent pressure to denounce the Dalai Lama.

11) Lobsang Tsultrim (http://www.stoptibetcrisis.net/pr090708.html) committed suicide on 3 July 2008. He was around 16 years old and a monk at the Kirti Dhongri Monastery in Mehu-ru-ma Village, Ngaba County, Sichuan Province. His elder brother testified that Lobsang Tsultrim came home from the monastery and said, "the Chinese official work-teams have again arrived at the monastery. They have ordered the monks to assemble for the "education". Again, they will not let us stay in peace". With these words, he walked out from the room. After around 15 minutes, when his brother looked for him, he was found strangled with a rope in the nearby storeroom where they kept their firewood.

12) Shedup (http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=24508) committed suicide on 2 April 2009. He was around 40 years old and was a monk at a monastery in Rebkong (Ch: Tongren) County, Malho "TAP", Qinghai Province. He was first arrested for his alleged role in the protest in Rebkong in March 2008. He was then severely beaten and tortured in custody before being released. However, his name appeared in the wanted list announced by the Public Security Bureau (PSB) around March 2009. Instead of being rearrested, he killed himself to escape humiliation and torture.

13) An unnamed nun (http://www.tibet.net/en/flash/2008/0408/26C0408.html), 21 years old, from Choekhor Nunnery committed suicide 12 April 2008. Earlier in the day many monks monks from Pangsa Monastery, Tashi Gang township, in Balab sub-district; nuns from Choekhor (colloquially known as Choekhook) Nunnery, Sibook Township, and monks from Dhomo Monastery led a peaceful protest also joined by laypeople in Meldro Gungkar County. Numerous monks and laypeople were arrested during the protest.

14) Lobsang Tsomo (http://www.rfa.org/english/news/politics/tibet_protest-20080313.html), a nun at Chokhor Nunnery, committed suicide on 12 April 2008. She hailed from Meldrogungkar County, Lhasa Municipality.

15) Two Drepung Monastery monks, Kelsang and Damchoe (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3547527.ece), both originally from Kirti Monastery in Sichuan Province, in Drepung Monastery stabbed themselves in the chest, hands, and wrists to commit suicide out of desperation amid protest on 12 and 13 March 2008 in the monastery.

16) Tapey (http://www.freetibet.org/newsmedia/2729), a monk at Kirti Jepa Monastery, Ngaba County, Sichuan Province, attempted suicide by self-immolated on 27 February 2009 as a mark of protest against the ban of Monlam religious festival and the Chinese repression and rule in Tibet. Apparently when he was on fire, eyewitnesses said Tabey was fired upon three gun shots by the Chinese police.