July 18, 2012

CNN - Teenage monk self-immolates 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.