India’s Tibet problem

Last week, a Tibetan herder set himself on fire in China’s Qinghai Province to protest government policies in the region. On May 27, even the presence of the paramilitary, the police, snipers and surveillance cameras could not prevent two Tibetan men from immolating themselves in front of the sacred Jokhang temple in protest against the Chinese rule in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. This marks the nationwide spread of self-immolation by Tibetans calling for freedom and the return of the Dalai Lama.

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