When a dog is cornered it tends to bark ridiculously. I was reminded of this when reading the Global Times editorial of January 11, 2012 concerning another three Tibetans who have committed self-immolations in recent days. How else can we interpret its effort to blatantly ignore the real cause of the self-immolations by Tibetans by questioning their power of judgment and virtually calling them tools of the West?
This commentary, written by Bhuchung Tsering, vice president for the International Campaign for Tibet, is in response to a recent editorial in the Global Times that sought to misplace the cause for the recent spate of self-immolations in Tibetan areas in China.
