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Woeser Calls for Self-Immolations to End

After repeated occurrences of self-immolation in Tibetan populated areas - the most recent by two women and an 18-year-old man, all laypersons – an article in The Economist asks if the practice is an effective form of protest against Chinese policies: A famous story tells how, in a previous life, the Buddha took pity on a starving tigress, who might otherwise have had to eat her newborn cubs.