Damn!!  A Maoist elected official supporting the Tibetan cause (going against dumazz Mao's progeny)...Nice!  Finally, I find one sensible commie in the Maoist legislature.  Being of Buddhist origin from the frontiers of Nepal and Tibet, I feel it is our every responsible to support the cause that Tibetans world-wide have undertaken.  Freedom and basic human rights are something we all take for granted since we were never at the dearth of it.  Once curbed, only then would we realize the necessity of such rights.  An autonomous Tibet is something we all can ask for even though it may never happen...But the key word here is "ask."  BTW, my solidarity with the Tibs lie in the fact that I often feel that though we, the Himalayan Buddhists classify our country as Nepal, our traditions, religions and culture are more in line with those of Tibets...And by us, I mean, the majority of people from Manang, Soul & Khumbu, Helambu, Mustang, Dolpa, Taplejung and the areas around the upper Himalayan belt.  Nepal has given our people a lot of opportunity and rights but at the same time, only our fore-fathers know of the discrimination they had to undergo under the bureacracy headed by the people who controlled the social structure...Hell, these Himalayan Buddhists were not even a part of the four varnas...Lower than the damn untouchables (or as Neps back in the 70s called us, "the peeps who never washed their faces"!!  Atleast today, with the advent of education and entrepreneurship, we've proven ourselves as good if not better than the so-caller upper echelon among the social heirarchy of the Nepali civil-life system.  My fellow Himalayan bros, let us, the new gen wipe the tears our forefathers wept at the discrimination they underwent.  Never shall you forget this.  And this should only motivate you further!! 

ssNY dai, nice article!!