By Tendar Tsering Jan. 16, 2014
A decade back, no one would have thought merry-making Tibetans would resort to such gruesome campaign of setting themselves on fire in protest against the Chinese government. But the world witnessed more than one hundred of Tibetans; mostly monks and youngsters set themselves on fire calling for the return of the Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile and freedom in Tibet. Few of them even jumped into the river!