Free Tibet

I always thought that people who cried “free Tibet” were annoying overzealous liberal lunatics who watched one too many Brad Pitt movies. I was wrong. Just 105 days after the Korean War, China invaded the de-facto independent nation of Tibet. The international community, pre-occupied with the war in Korea, failed to listen to the cries of then 15 year old Dalai Lama as he pleaded for help. Yes, he is the same Dalai Lama you see on news from time to time, and yes, Tibet is still annexed by China.

Today, 20th Tibetan person set himself on fire in the past year. May be we should listen to what he has, or had, to say. I don’t have anything so significant to say that it requires my drenching of flammable liquid and dying painfully as the flame slowly but fervently consumes my body. Do you?

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I was so angry when I read the news and wrote this.  It's interesting to post this on facebook, and see it slowly drown amid pictures of what people ate and where they were.