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    Cool 8th [NOW 29] Tibetan Monk Self Immolation Sets Him on Fire-China gives the thumbs up

    http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11290/1182802-82.stm
    19-year-old former monk in a Tibetan town in western China set himself on fire on Saturday in a desperate plea for Tibetan independence, according to reports on Sunday by Tibet advocacy groups. The flames were put out by police officers stationed on the street, and he was taken to a police station, the reports said.
    The former monk, Norbu Damdrul, was the eighth monk or former monk to set himself on fire to protest China since March. All the self-immolations have taken place in Tibetan areas of Sichuan Province that lie in the remote region Tibetans call Amdo. At least four Tibetans have killed themselves in the wave of self-immolations, which scholars of modern Tibet say are a new and startling protest strategy by monks.


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    Why can't the occupy protesters do this?

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    A Tibet nun set herself on fire, killing herself, and making herself the 1st female casualty of self-immolation and 5th overall in the protest.
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    19-year-old former monk in a Tibetan town in western China set himself on fire on Saturday in a desperate plea for Tibetan independence
    yeah that'll show em
    oh

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    i prefer my bbq'd monks with a thick texas style sauce

    ps is it too soon to make dead monk jokes

    pps if so in your head pls replace monk with "dead baby" in the above sentence


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    what's the difference between twitter and a pile of dead monks?
    they don't have twitter in china.
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    I thought the difference was that people care about twitter

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    Eight people set themselves on fire and a 2 year old gets run over by two trucks with 16 people passing. China is the place to be to get some killing done without anyone caring. Reminds me of the sexually repressed young adult males of Japan that got fed up with society and would run into schools and knife elementary students or shoot them up. Something is wrong and its crazy amazing.

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    they don't have twitter in china.
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    sorry kt nobody cars about twitter
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    do people care about dead monks?

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    no
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    Do people care about dead monks using twitter?

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    Sam. Sam I am.

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    So far 11 have set themselves on fire (9 monks, 2 nuns) and 1 in Nepal. I think Tibetan's are just going to burn themselves to extinction because I don't think this is going to have the effect it should be having.
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    My household has CNN/MSNBC on pretty much 24/7 and I don't remember seeing anything about it. Not saying CNN didn't cover it. Just saying CNN probably didn't cover it for more than 20 seconds.

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    fuck yes.

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    oh
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nermy2k View Post
    i get it
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    On numbers 13 and 14.

    http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/09/world/...tml?hpt=hp_bn2

    A former Tibetan monk has died and another is seriously injured after setting themselves on fire in southwest China's Sichuan province on Friday -- the 13th and 14th acts of self-immolation in the country since March. A 22-year-old man set himself ablaze at a crossroad in Aba county in the Aba Tibetan-Qiang

    Autonomous Prefecture before police put the fire out and sent him to a local hospital, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.

    Another man, believed to be 18 years old, died later that day after setting himself alight in a hotel nearby, Xinhua reported local officials as saying.

    However an Aba government spokesperson told CNN she was unaware of the incident.

    Tibetan campaign groups say the men were protesting against Chinese rule.

    We can only expect that such acts of protest will continue for as long as world leaders turn a blind eye to the desperate situation in Tibet.

    "These latest self-immolations confirm that what we are currently witnessing in Tibet is a sustained and profound rejection of the Chinese occupation," said Stephanie Brigden, director of London-based Free Tibet, which advocates Tibetan independence.

    "It is a damning indictment of the international community that 14 people, in different parts of Tibet, have now chosen to set themselves on fire and the international community has failed to respond.

    "We can only expect that such acts of protest will continue for as long as world leaders turn a blind eye to the desperate situation in Tibet."

    Most of the suicide attempts occurred in Aba Prefecture and the Kirti monastery, also in Sichuan, which has become a focal point for ethnic Tibetans angry at the erosion of their culture.

    But China rejects accusations of oppression of Tibetans, saying its rule has greatly improved living standards for the Tibetan people.

    It has accused the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader in exile, of encouraging people to harm themselves in this way -- a charge he denies.

    The Dalai Lama's representative signed an agreement with Beijing in 1951 to affirm China's sovereignty over Tibet but also grant autonomy to the area. A failed uprising against Beijing's rule in 1959 forced the Dalai Lama into exile.

    The Dalai Lama denies seeking independence for Tibet, saying he wants genuine autonomy, under which Tibetans can make their own policies on key issues, such as religious practices.

    In a 2008 uprising, violent unrest in Tibet and the subsequent military crackdown left at least 18 dead, and activists say tensions have remained high in many areas since then.
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    man how many of those guys are there

    of course, if that whole reincarnation thing is legit they probably get to self immolate all over again
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    also: apparently, self immolation isn't slang for masturbation
    oh

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    Now at 29!

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    BEIJING — A 20-year-old Buddhist monk set himself on fire on Friday evening near a government building in Sichuan Province, becoming the 29th person to do so as part of a yearlong protest against Chinese policies in traditionally Tibetan areas, overseas advocacy groups said.

    The monk, Lobsang Tsultrim, of Kirti Monastery in the town of Aba (or Ngaba, as it is known in Tibetan), shouted slogans calling for freedom as he set the fire about 5 p.m., according to Radio Free Asia and Free Tibet, a London group.


    Chinese security officers quickly extinguished the flames and beat the monk before throwing him onto the back of an open truck, said Radio Free Asia, citing two exiled monks with contacts at the monastery.


    “He was seen being taken away, but he kept pumping his fists in the air,” one of the monks, Kanyag Tsering, was quoted as saying.



    There was no immediate word on his condition.



    At least 18 of those who have set themselves on fire in the last year have died, the majority of them monks from the same restive corner of northern Sichuan Province.



    The latest self-immolation, the third this week, occurred on the same day that an estimated 1,000 people took to the streets in Qinghai Province, Radio Free Asia reported. The marchers demanded the release of 50 monks who were seized a day earlier by the police after they raised a Tibetan flag and banners demanding the return of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan religious leader.



    Radio Free Asia said that paramilitary police officers surrounded the protesters as they gathered at a government building in Tongde County, known as Gepasumdo in Tibetan, but that they did not try to stop the march.
    Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/wo...a-protest.html


    So what's been going on? China's choking the life out of the Tibetan Buddhist religion slowly but ever so surely. A state controlled religion that forces monks to provide upkeep for their temples and monasteries, paying senior monks greater amounts creating a wealth disparity amongst junior monks, and banning the posting of the Dalai Lama's picture and instead forcing them to post Mao Ze Dong. Summarized from this article:
    http://www.npr.org/2012/02/21/147170...esperate-tibet

    What does the Dalai Lama say? He says they are brave but he condemns the acts and say that have little to no effect on change.
    http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/...1051321873560/

    He still continues to travel and preach messages of good will, and at times he's been turned away as recently in South Africa.

    China is still committing cultural genocide.
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