Monday, November 21, 2011

Tibetan nun sets herself on fire (video)



Tibet: Video purports to show nun on fire
(GlobalPost) Palden Choesto is one of 11 Buddhist monastics who have set themselves on fire (self-immolated) since March to protest Chinese crackdowns on Tibet. Other nuns witnessing the... This shocking new video, which Tibetan activists say they smuggled out of China, shows the most graphic images yet seen of a growing protest movement spurred by monks and nuns setting themselves on fire in often fatal displays of dissent against Chinese rule. More

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