Following up on Saors post just a couple days ago, shortly after, three more Tibeten monks set themselves on fire in an act of protest against Chinese rule in Tibet. Two of those Tibetans are in critical condition and one passed away. The latest protest would mean 19 Tibetans had self-immolated in the past year and 13 of them had died. Most of the protesters are Buddhist monks or nuns in what are seen as acts of desperation in the face of tightening Chinese controls over Tibetan life and culture. Most of the immolations have occurred in heavily Tibetan areas of China’s Sichuan province. The Dalai Lama recently spoke out about the wave of self-immolations in Tibet blaming Beijing’s “cultural genocide” continue reading …

Last March, a young Tibetan monk died after setting himself on fire in protest against Chinese rule. Phuntsog, a 20-year-old monk from the Kirti monastery in Sichuan province, was the first of 12 protesters — including the first woman — …