Watching the Tibetan uprising spread around the world
Protests are spreading like wildfire inside Tibet. I am getting reports right now as I write this about gunshots in Karma Kunsang in Lhasa. Thousands are protesting in Labrang. People are desperate. Calls are coming from Tibet pleading for help. By phone today someone said:
“The Chinese shot at everybody in sight and blood and piles of corpses are lying around the main temple Tsuglakhang in Lhasa. Many people have been put into prison where they are being beaten. Tibetans are being forced to beat up their own countrymen. Many Tibetans are refusing to do so.”
Support protests for those inside Tibet are spreading around the world. In Delhi, 50 Tibetans were placed under custody after storming the Chinese Embassy yesterday and seven people were arrested outside the UN General Assembly building in New York City. Another 3 were arrested in Chicago at a candle light vigil. In Nepal, protests turned violent as police clashed with about 1,000 protesters. and twelve monks were injured. And earlier today, 7 people were arrested at the Chinese Embassy in Sydney.
Here in Dharamsala, hundreds are protesting. A second wave of Tibetans restarted the March for Tibet this morning where the original 100 marchers were arrested on Thursday. And a spontaneous march of 300 Tibetans set out from McLeod Ganj today at the main temple and is now nearing the Dehra, where the original marchers are imprisoned.
This is truly a People’s Uprising Movement.
And of course the Chinese are freaking out. They are so angry and spewing the most ridiculous rhetoric against the Dalai Lama:
“The Dalai Lama and his clique have never for a day refrained from violence and terror. His childhood teacher, an Austrian, was a Nazi, and it’s no secret that for quite a long time after he fled to India, he kept a force, armed by his western patron, for separatist activities. ”
Maybe someone should tell them it just makes them look like delusional idiots to any rational person living in the free world.
Posted: March 15th, 2008 under News.
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Comment from Dan Eidson, DCH
Time: March 15, 2008, 7:27 am
It is quite obvious that China is once again deleting, distorting, and generalizing information. The Chinese Government of Tibet are the tornado’s of twisted information.
The Chinese occupation of Tibet is POISON and everyone in the world always knew it. They have now ruined their own Olympic party with their disgusting behavior toward these peaceful Tibetan people.
Boycotting the China Olympics is now a popular reality around the world.
Love and Compassion is our new answer. The Dalai Lama would want it that way.
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Time: March 15, 2008, 7:44 am
[…] Beijing Wide Open - And a spontaneous march of 300 Tibetans set out from McLeod Ganj today at the main temple and is […]
Comment from Aqua
Time: March 15, 2008, 8:24 am
China’s rhetoric against His Holiness is an attempt to deflect the blame for the unrest in Tibet away from China and their brutal occupation of Tibet to HH.
Tibetans are peaceful devout Buddhists, but they have been driven to violence due to their growing frustration at having to live repressed lives under the Chinese.
I hope the UN and all the world leaders will support Tibet.
Bhoe Gyalo! Free Tibet!
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Time: March 15, 2008, 9:35 am
[…] violence against the Tibetan people is escalating. Beijing Wide Open provides the following report from a phone call from within Tibet: “The Chinese shot at everybody […]
Comment from Dan Eidson, DCH
Time: March 15, 2008, 10:34 am
Om Mani Padme Hum PEOPLE
Om Mani Padme Hung
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Time: March 15, 2008, 4:54 pm
Comment from gippi
Time: March 16, 2008, 5:14 am
bo rangzen, thank you Lhadonla for you tireless effort. lets hope & pray that the Chinese come to their senses and make a peaceful gesture by giving Tibet full independence or at least genuine autonomy. It is China’s own interest to allow H.H Dalia Lama & Tibetan people to return to their homeland as the ultimate offering of peace, then china will be seen as a nation with some virtue & decency, but until then they (government) are little more than blood sucking leaches….Boe gyalo
Comment from bodhi
Time: March 16, 2008, 8:42 am
I’m here in the States trying to get the latest on Tibet from our corporate news channels. Seems a 3-day old national sex scandal is more important than people dying in the streets of Lhasa.
I’m very sad today and I’m not trying to be angry.
Thank you Lhadon
Comment from tenzin
Time: March 16, 2008, 10:05 am
HU IS THE BAD GUY?…HU JINTAO…
It’s not surprising the ludicrous rhetoric coming from Chinese and its jughead govt. For long time they had been spewing such idiotic remarks to mislead people around the world. Hu is feeling the heat now..
Comment from [email protected]
Time: March 16, 2008, 11:38 am
Senator Barack Obama made an eloquent, much-needed condemnation of the PRC’s brutal crackdown on non-violent Tibetan protesters, but he needs to take it one step further.
The senator and fellow Democrats should make it be clear that these protesters are demanding freedom, a value all Americans respect and cheerish.
It is important that Americans are also aware of the connection between the PLA’s military response on peaceful civilians in Tibet and the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, where ordinary Chinese civilians wanted democratic reforms. Thus, Beijing’s violent attitude should not continue without protest.
For the good senator and the Democrats, 2008 should be about being in power to do good and promote real change rather than simply being in office and shying away from courage and conviction.
After all, cooperation with China is hardly fruitful to Washington with the countless product recalls, refusals to allow US naval ships to dock in Hong Kong and the Beijing government’s continual support of horrible regimes such as the Sudanese government.
I hope that the Democrats will have the courage to take a stand against the arrogance and hyprocrisy of the PRC.
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Time: March 17, 2008, 11:01 am
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