July 19, 2012

ABC News - Teenage monk Lobsan Lobzin sets self on fire in China

An 18-year-old Tibetan monk set himself on fire in a monastery in China’s Sichuan province, according to advocacy organizations and the Tibetan government in exile.

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Costica Bradatan, an assistant professor in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, observed that the Tibetan self-immolators were young and even teens, “which indicates that the new generation of politically aware Tibetans might have lost patience with the Dalai Lama’s nonviolent political philosophy.