I came across a story this week about the city of Tibet being in chaos. Apparently there have been riots being lead by buddist monks, causing at least 2 deaths. The city of Tibet has been under chinese rule for nearly two decades now. The followers of the exiled leader the dalai lama, started protests in 1959, and recently have began to attract regular tibetins, sick if the chinese rule. Cars and houses were torched, there were beatings, lootings, smashings and burnings. The violence put many peoples lives in danger and caused a reported 2 deaths.

The problem I have with this is, the violence. I understand the frusteration of a country who is under rule of another country and wants freedom. I understand the frusteration of a country with an amazingly high increase of migrants that do not belong there. However, the dalai lama and the buddist monks were peaceful people and wanted to harm to come to anyone. In fact, Tenzin Gyatso, the current dalai lama, is a noble peace prize winner. It is sad to see a country in tourmoil, especially when it caused problems like we have seen this week.

All of these happens are occurring at bad time for China also. China is currently preparing the the next Olympics and is trying to portray itself as a peaceful country, stable enough to hold an olympics. I guess we will see how the world reacts to these occurrences happening on Tibet.