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ButterflyEffect · 4212 days ago · link · · parent · post: If a monk lights himself on fire and nobody watches, has he made a protest?
I feel like self-immolation is more successful when dealing with more internal struggles as opposed to the Tibet-China situation. Tunisia, for example, was likely already teetering on the edge and that action was literally the flame needed to set everything off. Tibet, on the other hand, has been in conflict for quite some time now against a country much larger and powerful than itself and it's indigenous population. The rest of the world is not willing to take up arms and protests for Tibet, not against China, and thus these acts of self-immolation go largely wasted.