Tibet Violence: Despair, Crackdowns Breed More Killings

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CHRISTOPHER BODEEN 01/28/12 09:01 PM ET

BEIJING — A young man posts his photo with a leaflet demanding freedom for Tibet and telling Chinese police, come and get me. Protesters rise up to defend him, and demonstrations break out in two other Tibetan areas of western China to support the same cause.

Each time, police respond with bullets.

The three clashes, all in the past week, killed several Tibetans and injured dozens. They mark an escalation of a protest movement that for months expressed itself mainly through scattered individual self-immolations.

It's the result of growing desperation among Tibetans and a harsh crackdown by security forces that scholars and pro-Tibet activists contend only breeds more rage and despair.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/28/tibet-violence-_n_1238959.html

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[Scootaloo]

1. Tibet's a powder keg

When the Dalai Lama eventually dies, it just might spark the fuse. China's not at all likely to give the region further autonomy; they're going to end up with a bigger mess on their hands than they get from Xiniang.