I believe most of us, if not all have heard of suicides including self-immolation. This thing have been a concern for me, but my concern is renewed when I saw a picture of a self-immolating Tibetan, burning himself for free Tibet from China, on a website. If I'm not wrong, I was taken to it when I click a link of someone’s tweet on twitter.
Everyone should know self-immolation or suicide is ending one's own life by one's own hand but patriotism or sacrifice is givings one's own life to the hands of one's enemy when there is no more way left to escape death and fight for freedom. Therefore, self-infliction and immolation or killing oneself is courageous but the most foolish act.
I want these things to be noted by all people as my concern is not only those who have self-immolation mind among the Tibetan but also among us all, around the world because it is related to any kind of self-immolation or suicide actions.
If the reasons freedom fighters commit self-immolation or suicide are because they want freedom and to be a master upon themselves, I will honestly say that they have the right reason but the most wrong and foolish way of following their reason.
Though it is a courageous act, why should a man who is courage enough self-immolate when he have the braveness of a leader who can be counted as a leader and can lead his people or show them the courageous right and wise way of fighting for freedom without foolishly self-immolating or killing oneself.
Of course, if they have such a courageousness they should lead, be a leader by leading and sacrifice their life for a good reason and purpose in the right, wise and lasting way.
Anyway, self killing does not speak or shout louder and is not more effective than fighting and dying in the hands of enemies, regardless of violence or non-violence movement, instead it would rather make your enemies happy.
When one burn oneself, the enemy will not come, care and give one food though they may pretend to be. Instead they would want all of them to burned themselves to death and have no more but be free of their enemies, who fight for freedom, without their doings.
It will not even attract or gain new supporter but instead it disappoints supporters, stop potential new supporters from supporting the cause and may even drive away some old supporters, as such act call for supporters to do the same, in other words to self immolate themselves also.
No one will really support it, even those who support it may do for few days but will return to engaged in their own business since the courageous but foolish freedom fighter had died of self-immolation and there may be no one who would fight for freedom with a true and courageous spirit.
Of course, no one will really support it as it is a foolish act and as it would mean that self immolation is promoted. Though some people may seems to support it but the real reason they did was and what they really support was not the self immolator or suicider and self immolation or suicide but the cause, they support the needy, that they should be given freedom.
The news of self immolation may seems to be widespread at times also but what interest the people, or what they really want to know and what pierced their ears was the incident and that does not mean they support it.
Maybe some people self-immolated because they were taught no to violence, not to harm and kill their enemy, and also maybe because they wanted quick and effective action and considered that self immolation is the quick and effective way for freedom and independence without realizing how short lived and how ineffective the idea really is.
Those people who commit self-immolation or suicides did not realize when they self immolate they do not free themselves but they free their own enemies from themselves.
Therefore, we the living, healthy, fit and young should know that self immolation is not an idea or part of non-violence, and never will it be the idea or part of it for non-violence does not take life, even one's own. It is not even the way to get any freedom and independence.
Anyway, if all the freedom fighter self immolate there will be no one to fight for freedom anymore, then, who will fight for freedom? Freedom is never.
Therefore, it is certain that self immolation is not the way to get freedom and independence. It is not even the act of true leaders. And, true leaders will never supports but condemns it.
Though self-immolation is the most foolish act, it does not mean self-immolated courage men should be disrespected or dishonored because, in order to achieve freedom according to their ignorance, they have committed to kill themselves according to the degree of the knowledge they possessed on the love of their own people, country and as much as themselves, but their reason should be respected and honored and they themselves should be sympathized for their lack of knowledge. Yes, their knowledge about non-violence, suicide or self-immolation is incomplete.
It maybe hard to accept these things for those who are involving in or supporting such foolish activity, but when you realize that its true you will thank to God. I hope such activity ends from this moment.
Therefore, after reading through and having this knowledge, courageous or bravemen and possible leaders should make their minds and commit not self-immolation or suicides for it is foolish, I repeat, so foolish: the most foolish act.
If the purpose of courageous or brave men is good, I want and wish them to be courageous and be brave leaders instead of letting their courage and brave leadership short lived by self-immolation or suicides. That way they can fight longer and achieve much more.
If freedom fighters really want freedom and have the courage to bear pain and fear no death and if non-violence is their real principle they should hunger strike repeatedly one day at a time or as they wish but repeatedly, do long marches, surround and stay around the official buildings, strive for official meetings for freedom and keep on meeting with the appropriate person until they get the freedom they strive for. That's the non-violence way of showing how much they needed freedom, how strong and determined they are and how much they can bear and that they will not give up unless they get the freedom they want and strive for.
Though one may suffer severe objection even pain and possible death, does that really matters? if one have the courage to inflict oneself with severe pain and fear no death, really severe objection, jail, pain and even death caused by enemies does not matter at all but honourable, compare to the most foolish act known as self-infliction, immolation or suicides.
If self-infliction, immolation or suicides, or death and violence does not matter freedom fighters should fight for freedom the violence way because self-immolation or suicides itself is violence.
But, we should know there are two ways of fighting for freedom: violence and non violence. And I will not encourage violence but non-violence.
Of course, self-immolation or suicide is a part of violence and it is the most ineffective violence, for many things one can do from there after is ended in that point by killing oneself to death or making oneself handicapped.
Therefore, individual or people who fight for freedom but don’t want to use violence, whose real principle is non-violence, should never commit such most foolish act, self-immolation or suicide, for it is violence itself. In other words, it is violence to self, so it is self-violence. And self-immolation itself is suicide, it is just another name for suicide.
Instead freedom fighters, no matter they used violence or non violence, should keep themselves healthy, strong, fit and wise, for that's the best, and it is the basic and most essential for a long fight and achieving freedom. This way one can see how much one can do, how long one can fight and how far one can achieve more than just the short lived and foolish self-immolation. After all, as long as one is alive, one can achieve many great things, including one's own great dreams or wishes. And this is so far more courageous than foolish self-immolation or suicide that it is out of comparision.
That’s the way of non-violence for this earthly freedom but, though me and my fellow people, the Zos ('Zo' pronunciation: 'Zou' ), whose land and people are divided to Bangladesh, India and Myanmar do also want independence, I’d not encourage my people and others to fight for independence as this earthly kingdom will not last forever, instead the world is approaching its end and it is near.
But, what I want for me and my people and those other people who are under other nations that are applicable, including the Tibetans are:
1. Acknowledged and approved us that we are different nations by the nations where we and our lands are divided or who overtakes others’ lands and by the world and United Nations Organization. We should respect one another, unite for good purpose and future and live as brothers and sisters equally with love, and the countries should be democratic.
2. Changed the current particular name of such two or more nations inhabited countries, example Bangladesh to United Nations of Lower Brahmaputra, India to United Nations of West South Himalayas, Myanmar to United Nations of Gold Sand, China to TiChi, ChiTi or United Nations of East North Himalayas or something like that but anything which the nations in such countries agreed together.
The current particular names of the countries that I mentions are not to compare with United States of America (which was named after Amerigo Vespucci answers.yahoo.com) and Australia (which mean ‘Southern’ au.answers.yahoo.com), where everyone living in it can be called and be so American and Aussies as the name America and Australia does not refer to any particular nation or people, not even the native people. Therefore it represents all the people living in it and no one or particular people or race should boast that it belongs to them only but to all the people living in it, so they should respect one another and live with peace and love as real brothers and sisters. Afterall, except the native people, all other peoples were immigrants from different countries around the world from around 15th century before or after.
Significant countries, as in en.wikipedia.org, though they may not realize it, that change their names without refering to any particular peoples in the countries are, with the old names, New Holland but now Australia (pre British discovery), Ubangi-Shari but to Central African Republic (1958) and to Central African Empire (1976) but now to Central African Republic (1979), etc.
3. A special passport, eg. 'Zos, special passport, of the People of divided Zoland, etc.' issued by the concerning governments and recognized by the world, UNO or issued by UNO and recognized by every country for the divided nations like us so that we can move, study or do, speak and think to the countries where we are divided (by the divide and rule policy applied by the British empire in the past) freely, openly and as we wish without any objection from the central governments.
If we are not given these things we should be allowed to have independence and no government of any countries should barred us from it but support us with understanding and love. But if the first and third things are passed I don’t care the second thing that I wanted for divided peoples including my own people, but the second thing will be important to those people who are not divided but overtaken and ruled by other nations so that there can be established respect, peace, unity, equality and love as brothers and sisters.
Since, it was the British empire that had divided us, the Zos, in three countries while we were not well educated with the politics of the world and not advanced, I call upon the Queen of United Kingdom to feel oblige to support us, and also to other peoples that is applicable, to get us back what's true, good, beneficial, best and what's belong to us, that which we really wants, that which is challenging and will land us in a higher ground at the level of other independent nations or even more.
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