Interesting that this man was protesting while in New Delhi and how does that improve the standard of living for those in Tibet. The Central Government has invested millions of dollars to the development of the infrastructure; constructed schools where there wasn't any; and hospitals and medical clinics that serves the local residents where there were none. The monks aren't the ones responsible for the development of the region that ultimately supports the local people. For as much as the world at large is against the Central Government and the ethnic "Han Chinese" people infringing in the area; have you looked around lately to noticed that there were over a billion people living in China? Even with the one child ruling imposed, this was just one way of trying to control the population growth in the country.

This man setting himself on fire is self serving and stupid. It won't change a thing. When the Dali Lama was still in Tibet, only the monks lived a better quality of life. The serfs and slaves were the local people who were not allowed an education or health care... those amenities were reserved for the monks themselves. Ethnic identity and culture are all important, but what I see is a group of people trying hard to segregate themselves from the rest of the 53 ethnic minorities within China's border. For a supposedly peaceful group of people, they don't practice what they preach.