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Brickbat: Suicide Is Painless

Charles Oliver | 5.13.2013 6:00 AM


Savetibet.org

Chinese officials have responded to a wave of Tibetans setting themselves on fire to protest the occupation of their country. They've arrested people they accuse of helping others set themselves of fire and seized more than 1,800 satellite TV dishes in an effort to keep news from spreading across Tibet.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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