Tibetans Enhance Self-Immolation, Other Forms Of Protests Against Chinese Rule

In this Oct. 23, 2012 file photo released by London-based rights group Freetibet.org, Dorje Rinchen, a farmer in his late 50s, runs after setting himself on fire on the main street in Xiahe, in northwestern China’s Gansu province. A surge in self-immolations and large demonstrations by Tibetans in western China mark a new phase in protests against rule by the authoritarian Chinese government. <AP Photo/Freetibet.org, File>

Exiled Tibetans shout slogans during a protest rally to express solidarity with Tibetan self-immolators and to appeal for immediate international intervention in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. At least 86 people have set themselves on fire since the immolations began in 2009. <AP Photo/Altaf Qadri>

An exile Tibetan participates in a candlelit vigil to show solidarity with self-immolators in Tibet in Dharmsala, India, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. At least 86 people have set themselves on fire since the immolations began in 2009. <AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia>