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Listening to the recent news I heard there was an so called 'popular uprising in Tibet' in which 400 Tibetan monks and separatists set on Chinese businesses and upturned cars.

10 monks set themselves alight and burnt themselves to death. Since we are doing Sky Burial, this thing got me thinking. The Tibetans, their whole life devoted to their religion so that one day, they will reach spiritual enlightenment, such as in a sky burial where their pieces of body fly into the heavens.

Spending all day praying, giving their sons into monastery and sacrificing their yaks and carving prayers into mani stones, all this so that they don't burn in hell. Yet they burn themselves on earth and spent their last minutes of this life causing death and chaos. This bring me to another point. The idea of Peaceful resistance. I hear resistance but I don't see peace, what point could they make by destroying businesses and upturning cars, that they are a peaceful people? Or simply separatists?

This makes me angry, to me, my heart just go, it just seems to be a terrible waste of energy...and life. What makes me more angry is those protests in Australia. Ignorant young people shouting 'Free Tibet'. Free Tibet, From who? the so called 'brutal regime' of Beijing or the religious stranglehold on a region in which China is desperately trying to improve the people's living standards.

Those protesters, wearing Tibetan flags that is no doubt 'made in China', throwing themselves onto gates of Chinese embassy and clashing with Australian police.

My point is, if isn't for China, how did they end up here? They will be still in Tibet, milking yaks and wondering what high tech phenomenon in what we call photograph is all about.

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