Frustrated Young Tibetians

Spiegel writes:

Many young exiled Tibetans have marched through Dharamsala with placards reading, "We want to go home." But for them, "home," means a land they know only from stories. From the terrace of the Central Committee of Tibetan Youth, Dolma Choephel, 34, looks down into a valley. She's wearing a gray t-shirt with the words "Boycott 2008." Dead human heads appear inside the Olympic rings.

"Tibetan youth are frustrated," the social worker says. She talks about her 21-day hunger strike in front of the United Nations office in New York, meant to raise awareness about the Tibetans' plight. "It didn't help," she says bitterly. The first TV cameras arrived only after 12 days. "But when a bomb explodes or a house goes up in flames," she says, "the UN is right there. The world only reacts to violence. Just like in Kosovo."