Tibetan self-immolations

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Radio Free Asia’s interactive map of Tibetan self-immolations

One hundred seventeen Tibetans have doused themselves in fuel and set themselves ablaze to protest Chinese authority in general and their intrusions specifically into the Tibetan and Buddhist ways of life.

Yet this has received very little attention in the Western media. Add it to the list, I suppose.

2 Comments

  1. Cool_Eyes (ChrisV)'s avatar Villanueva says:

    OMG what happen to that guy? is he alive after that?

    1. adamaton's avatar adamaton says:

      I don’t know, this was one of the pictures submitted to the Picture of the Year awards, but I’ve since lost the photographer’s name.

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