WI can't say this in general, ok, I don't live in Burma or Tibet, but to one extend the whole teaching of impermanence is very helpful - it is going to pass. It is going to pass. Do we have to fight and kill in order for it to pass? Maybe this is one type of thought that some of the people have. Now in specific with Tibet and also Burma, one thing that I do know, is that the people in power have a lot of guns. And the little people do not. There are little fractions of Burmese people who are fighting, but they can't do very much, because they don't have enough guns. So when we think of opposing, generally we think of fighting, but the people in Burma and Tibet can't fight.
Now there is also the opposing with street action, protests and that is one kind of "fighting" which doesn't need guns. But when you are up against something like the government of China, forget it, it doesn't work, because their guns will still fire at the people, and basically the same thing happens in Burma. So generally it may be that the Buddhist people in these two countries have accepted the fact that there is not much they really can do. We can also look at the basic fact that the rest of the world doesn't care much about Burma and China. Numerous countries have tried sanctions on Burma - it doesn't help.
When you think of the United States in particular, in the 1700s when they had their revolution, they actually would have never won against the British except for the help of the French. A lot of different wars, look at World War II - if the United States had not joined, it is possible that the end result would have been very different. So it often takes another group of people to come in and help a suppressed people to get their freedom. Maybe that is why in Burma and Tibet it is not working so well.
Now as to an advantage to such behavior, let us look at it from another point of view. Say we are Buddhists in Burma and we can't do anything, ok, can we still try to be a loving kind person? The government is not so nice. They are a poorer country than they used to be, they used to be one of the richest southeast Asian countries right after World War II. In fact, I think they were I think the richest southeast Asian country, now they are the poorest, one of the poorest in the whole world regarding individual income of the people.
But as to the individual being poor, does that stop them working on the Dhamma? To have a crummy government, does that stop them working on the Dhamma? This is a different aspect to look at. As far as Burma goes, Buddhism is still very strong, there are heaps of monasteries, Westerners go there to practice, good, bad or crummy, at least it is very strong. So even with the crummy government, should we fight and kill to change the government? Or should we not? That is one question. But should we practice? That is a different question, which we can do even if we were in an oppressive government, we can still practice.