Xinhua, 26 Dec 2012: "National broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) has released a documentary on self-immolation in the country's Tibetan-inhabited areas. The documentary debuted at 9:27 pm on Sunday on CCTV-4, an international channel mainly targeting overseas viewers in Chinese language. It also aired on CCTV's English channel, Spanish channel, French channel, Arabic channel and Russian channel on Monday. The documentary, titled 'Facts About Self-Immolation in Tibetan Areas of Ngapa (Aba),' discloses the truth about self-immolations that have occurred in Aba, a Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture in Sichuan Province. The documentary contains interviews with the masterminds and victims of the self-immolations. It states that the monks in Aba were acting on orders sent from overseas to convince people to self-immolate, as well as sending information about the self-immolations abroad, as they have claimed that the acts were a form of 'protest' against Chinese authorities in Tibetan areas. The documentary also states that the Dalai clique masterminded the self-immolations."

Broadcasting Board of Governors press release, 12 Dev 2012: "Radio Free Asia (RFA) continues to be in the forefront of coverage of self-immolations and other demonstrations in Tibet, with The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and major wire services relying on RFA content. Almost daily, ordinary Tibetan men and women, including a nun and young mothers and fathers, set themselves on fire to protest China’s rule and demand the return of Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. By Dec. 3, the number of self-immolations had risen to 92. RFA reported exclusively last month that more than 1,000 Tibetan students held a mass demonstration in Qinghai province to protest the release of an official Chinese booklet that ridiculed the Tibetan language as irrelevant and condemned self-immolations as acts of 'stupidity.' Chinese authorities arrested four students and opened fire on the demonstrators, wounding 20 and leaving five in critical condition, according to another Tibetan source. The students were also angered by statements by the Chinese authorities calling the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, 'the main cause for the split between Tibetans and Chinese,' the source said."