THOUGHTS ON THE SELF-IMMOLATIONS

LOBSANG WANGDUE

 

Over the past five to six months, self-immolations have become the order of the day in tibet, my motherland, and this has not stopped yet and seemingly it will continue "until" there is a solution with which we can find a way to usher peace, freedom, justice and truth in for the long-lasted atrocities in tibet. imagine how painful it can be to get one of your fingers burned and then project what those 86 deceased self-immolators' pain onto you, the pain, of course, is way beyond description but the underlying truth is that they are giving their lives up with this emphatic call in unison for freedom, justice and the return of His Holiness The Dalai Lama to tibet which, many of us are not aware of, have underlain this tragic wave of self-immolations. In spite of being in a free country where the situation which the tibetans inside tibet go through are non-existent, we are, leaving aside the reaction, never alarmed by the sad news coming out of tibet. Have we given up our hopes just because we have enough to eat, spend, frivol and enjoy? This is almost like throwing those brothers and sisters who died for us down the river without any respect and regret. Even with little space and energy, we should feel obliged to do something to the best of our ability lest we are not tibetans in practice. This has become an ill tendency, in us, inherited from the past that one of us always expect that the other one will do it for us and getting deep down the shit in the process. the time has come to stop talking, patronising and malingering and start getting down to the real task, we have this responsibility on our shoulders to make this a known fact to the rest of the world that tibetans are not burning not just because they have no food, financials issues and family disputes but they are burning merely because the basic human rights are deprived and people are killed with no apparent legitimate reason, we should make those gallant heroes' sacrifices meaningful beyond their death. It is high time we did something substantial. The least you can do is not to forget that you are a tibetan with your motherland invaded by the red chinese.