Sheila's LiveJournal

The Dalai Lama has been in exile from Tibet for fifty years this month. The situation with the Chinese occupation seems not to get better, only worse. Tourists have been banned from the country until the end of March – effectively preventing them, from bearing witness during the Tibetan New Year observance. The BBC is reporting that a monk set himself on fire in protest in a Chinese town near the Tibetan border; Chinese police shot him to death. Today I mourn for a gentle people and a holy country.