Report says 3 set themselves on fire in China
The Associated Press
A report says three more people have set themselves on fire to protest China's policies toward Tibetans in a remote area in southwest China.
U.S.-funded broadcaster Radio Free Asia said Sunday the three set themselves on fire Friday in Seda county in Sichuan province. It says one person died and the others are in serious condition. A woman who answered the phone at the county government office Sunday denies the incidents happened.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/report-set-fire-china-15515269#.Ty3q7l2Rl_k
More detailed report: http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=30821&article=Breaking+News%3a+Three+Tibetans+self-immolate+in+Serthar
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Hearing stories like this is heartbreaking. It makes me wish I could go back and do something--but I can't. I just hope I can live to see some form of "change" in China. It just has to happen at some point. 
...is that for us here in the West we can just click and close the page. For Tibetans, and for the Chinese they cannot do that to the PRC. I think the single biggest thing we can to do affect change at this point is to spread information. The PRC takes the internet very seriously, so much so that it's been reported they have thousands of paid cadres dedicated to trolling the internet spreading misinformation and defending the PRC both on Chinese websites and Western sites (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7783640.stm). Every once in awhile, some even stumble onto DU, although they stick out like sore thumbs, get ridiculed and promptly banned. Those who were at DU during the 2008 Olympics can attest to that fact.
To save Tibet, we must build a political movement for the future.
P.S. Check out the DFA Group accessible via my signature fellow Deaniac! 
