Tibetan Youth Challenge Beijing – and Dalai Lama

This is a fascinating phenomenon. I knew nothing of it. Of course, American media concentrates on rehashing the already-proven story that ever other media outlet is pounding on (until they find a fresh body), or on the absolutely inane and trivial.

What I knew was of the Dalai Lama's sainthood. That there is an opposition movement to China's occupation I did not know. Now I do.

"Young Tibetan activists are courting confrontation. Their more-aggressive stance risks enraging Beijing and triggering a harsher clampdown. The movement clashes with the nonviolent beliefs of the Dalai Lama as leaders seek to shift the views of Tibetans to their more-forceful tactics."


"A new generation of impatient activists is vying to seize control of the Tibetan freedom movement from the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama favors dialogue with the Chinese over confrontation and denounces violence. China made Tibet into an "autonomous region" in 1951, the year after its army marched into Tibet."