http://blog.oup.com/2012/04/self-immolation-by-tibetans/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:22:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2012/04/self-immolation-by-tibetans/#comment-266620 aditya Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:42:07 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=22993#comment-266620 Estimates of the number of suicides for a separate Telangana State in the past 3 years are in the range of 400-900, but sadly the telangana cause was not chic enough like the Tibetian one, from 12year old kids to elderly septuagenarians have killed themselves, mostly in the form of hangings,self-immolations,throwing themselves under trains, some have shot themselves... all have written their final Suicide letters..clearly expressing the reasons for their actions, but Telangana cause never managed to be come under the spot light of international media. Estimates of the number of suicides for a separate Telangana State in the past 3 years are in the range of 400-900, but sadly the telangana cause was not chic enough like the Tibetian one, from 12year old kids to elderly septuagenarians have killed themselves, mostly in the form of hangings,self-immolations,throwing themselves under trains, some have shot themselves… all have written their final Suicide letters..clearly expressing the reasons for their actions, but Telangana cause never managed to be come under the spot light of international media.

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2012/04/self-immolation-by-tibetans/#comment-266603 cb Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:42:37 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=22993#comment-266603 Tibetan people want freedom; China will never be a great and lasting world power until the Tibetan people and Tibetan Buddhism are free from China’s precaution. Long life to The Dalai Lama and HH The Karmapa. Tibetan people want freedom; China will never be a great and lasting world power until the Tibetan people and Tibetan Buddhism are free from China’s precaution. Long life to The Dalai Lama and HH The Karmapa.

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