Riots, Again

If anyone happened to walk by a TV this last week, (that happens to have a certainly non-bias news station that is not just gathering ratings for their own profit), would have most likely heard about the recent Tibetan riots against the Chinese government. In the recent past the violence and riots were mainly contained to Tibet, but last Sunday, the violence spread to other provinces. The tensions are at an all time high, with Buddhist monks being the main advocates of the demonstrations. This is a big shock to me, Buddhist monks are taught and trained to be at peace and they whole heatedly believe in KARMA. Several officers were killed and lit on fire... now I'm pretty sure that lighting someone on fire isn't good karma, but in these monks minds the officers/ government "has it coming to them (karma)" For Buddhist monks to even open there mouth once in a day is a very sacred thing, but with them rioting one has to think that there's something else going on here. Its called the struggle for democracy...