Tibetan anti-mining protesters face violence under China & foreign corporate interests

Open pit mining, is considered by many locals as well as global environmental advocates, to have lasting and ‘harmful environmental effects’.  The interests in procuring metals from the region against a local population of people who want their land to stay pristine has also created increasing conflict, injury and death in the region, including self-immolation protests that have increased substantially in the past five years.
http://womennewsnetwork.net/2013/08/21/tibetan-anti-mining-violence/