WARNING – The footage linked below is extremely graphic and may be disturbing for some viewers. A Tibetan activist died in New York City on Thursday after he set himself on fire outside of the United Nations headquarters. The New York City Police Department said they responded to an emergency call made at around 6:30 p.m. ET. The man was found badly burned. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Video footage HERE [EXTREMELY GRAPHIC]: The man was identified as Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen. He left behind papers reading “China Out of Tibet.” NEW: The man who set himself on fire outside the UN HQ in NYC has been identified as a Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen; he livestreamed the incident and left behind papers reading "China Out of Tibet." pic.twitter.com/HlWwRnTjNG — Scope Report (@ScopeReport_) July 3, 2026 NBC News shared further: Voice of Tibet, a media outlet of exiled Tibetans, said Tibetan activist Logba Rangzen “self-immolated outside the U.N. headquarters in New York after a live appeal for Tibetan independence and unity.” He was an Uber driver and went to the scene with a Tibetan flag, local news site amNewYork reported. The website quoted fellow Uber driver Lobsang Paljor as saying he knew Rangzen from gatherings in the Tibetan community. Paljor told the news website that Rangzen “was enraged by the restrictions the Chinese government had placed on his countrymen.” The United States and the European Union have expressed concern about China’s new ethnic unity law, which went into effect this week and gives Beijing the legal basis to take action against people outside its borders. The law creates a “shared” national identity among the country’s 55 ethnic minority groups, including Tibetans and Uyghurs, some of whom chafe under Chinese governance. Tibetans around the world have opposed the law. In a video posted on his Facebook page, Rangzen called on other Tibetans in exile to unite and do more to fight for Tibet’s independence. He hinted at his future actions, saying it’s not for “any personal reason.” “So if I do a big action today, I want you to know it is not for any personal reason. It is not because I have nothing to eat or nothing to wear, but because I am doing this for my country. For the Tibetan nation,” he said, according to The New York Times. “In his final message, he called for a free Tibet, unity among Tibetans, and an end to the Chinese Communist Party’s occupation and repression,” Digital Citizens for Human Rights wrote. “Since 2009, more than 170 Tibetans have self immolated in protest against the CCP’s policies in Tibet. They were not seeking death. They were making the ultimate sacrifice after their voices, faith, language, culture, and fundamental freedoms were systematically suppressed,” it added. Tibetan activist Loga Rangzen has died after self immolating outside the UN headquarters in New York. In his final message, he called for a free Tibet, unity among Tibetans, and an end to the Chinese Communist Party's occupation and repression. Since 2009, more than 170… pic.twitter.com/q2WQ4r0JTw — Digital Citizens for Human Rights (@dc4_humanrights) July 3, 2026 More from The New York Times: The self-immolations in China were initially carried out by monks, but nomads, farmers and others also began staging the protest. They were so frequent that in 2012, the top human rights official at the United Nations at the time, Navi Pillay, criticized China for the suppression of Tibetan rights, saying that it had driven them to “desperate forms of protest.” Ms. Pillay appealed to Tibetans to seek other ways of expressing their feelings and urged China to allow them to do so without retribution. Even as the self-immolations became central to the Tibetan protest movement, some Tibetans were anguished over the deaths of their young men and women and asked how the acts reconciled with Buddhist teachings. The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader-in-exile, has described the religious issues surrounding the self-immolations as “very, very complicated.” Lobga Rangzen’s protest marks the first known self-immolation of a Tibetan in the United States, according to Tenzin Dorjee, director of research and advocacy at Tibet Action Institute, who was a friend of the activist’s. He said that Lobga Rangzen’s clarity and calm during his last statement suggested he had been planning this action for a while. Tenzin Dorjee described his friend as a central member of the Tibetan community in New York, helping with cultural events and participating in countless demonstrations. “He would come to every single protest rally we ever organized,” he said. “For him, there was no other goal or value in life that was higher than national liberation,” he said. “That was the singular thing that occupied and preoccupied him.” The post EXTREMELY GRAPHIC: Tibetan Activist Sets Himself On Fire Outside Of United Nations In New York City appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.