The Wire

3 metre high, black steel street blockades, dozens of pale-green military trucks and hundreds of armed Chinese troops. That’s the scene in the Tibetan town of Aba, as shown in footage smuggled out this week by a foreign journalist in defiance of China’s efforts to censor reports of the conflict.

At last count, twenty-three Monks, Nuns and Tibetan citizens  have resorted to immolating themselves  …to express their frustration and sadness to their oppressors, and to the world.Tibetan exile Tenzin Tsundue says the ferocity of the current ctrackdown is a sign of China’s paranoia that it has been unable after 62 years to succeed in breaking the Tibetan spirit