Jeffrey Bartholet: A wave of self-immolations sweeps Tibet. On January 12th, the day that Tsering Tashi set himself on fire, he didn’t seem particularly troubled. He ate an early breakfast with his wife and his parents in the house they shared in a village near Amchok, a historically Tibetan township in China’s Gansu Province . . . (Subscription required.)
July 1, 2013 - The New Yorker