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“We don’t want to live under Chinese rule. We want our [Tibet] back.”
“It’s impossible for me to go to Tibet,” he said. “They’d never let in a Tibetan who was born in India. But if Tibet were free? Yes, of course I’d go back. And so would my parents.”
At dawn, the old man stood outside his home on the Indian side of Pangong Lake, thumbing his prayer beads and chanting, “Om mani padme hum.”
After more than 50 self-immolations in Tibet against harsh Chinese rule, exiled Tibetan leaders said Friday that the practice needs to stop and non-violent forms of protest should be adopted instead.
Two Tibetans set themselves on fire in the capital city of Lhasa in the Chinese controlled Tibet Autonomous Region on Sunday.
According to Xinhua News Agency, the quake happened on 4:30 p.m. Beijing time. The epicenter was at 29.8 degrees north and 90.3 degrees east, 82 km from Lhasa.
