Tibetan demonstrators sets off the effigy of Chinese president Hu Jintao on fireworks during an anti-China demonstration in the Nepalese Capital Kathmandu .
As part of a religious ritual performed by Tibetans to ward-off evils two days before the commencement of their lunar New Year or Losar, which begins Wednesday, demonized effigies of Chinese leaders were put on fire. Tibetan exiles around the world vowed to boycott their New Year celebrations as they want to remember those who died in last year's anti-China unrests.
Similar widespread boycott movement is also reportedly being observed by Tibetans in Tibet as a silent protest to register displeasure and anger against Chinese rule.