Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for your testimony.
We have limited time for questions, so I'll try to make them brief.
Mr. Dhondup, I can't imagine the pain you've gone through being shot while trying to save a monk—your friend—and of course not being successful at that, and also seeing the suffering of your people.
I wanted to ask you something. The People's Republic of China is trying to make us believe that these immolations are a plot, a strategy by the Dalai Lama and individual people in maybe the Tibetan Youth Congress, etc.
You were there in 2009. Is that the case? Explain to us the motivation that these individual people have for this most fierce form of protest.