Just in case anyone had any doubts that the real issue at stake in Tibet is one of freedom, the monks of the Jokhang have now risked everything to send this message to the world. They ran into the middle of the strictly controlled tour of foreign media when it reached the Jokhang (Tibet’s holiest temple), crying out to the journalists that the Chinese government is “lying” and trying to “trick” them into thinking everything is fine in Tibet. Through their tears they explained that there is no freedom in Tibet and that the Dalai Lama is not to blame for the protests.
And now, what happens to these brave young men? They told the journalists that they understood the consequences of their actions. But does the world understand? The Chinese authorities are ruthless in Tibet. They rule through fear and pain. Can you even imagine these courageous young monks being punched? Kicked? Suspended from the ceiling by their arms? This is what they do to Tibetans who defy their authority. It has been like this for decades in Tibet. In dark room after dark room. In the cities, in the villages, in the towns. There has been so much suffering.
This is why Tibetans have risen up. It’s about freedom. Despite how the Chinese government is trying to paint the situation - as if our people are a bunch of rioting vandals and murderers who now must “surrender” for their crimes - we know it’s a countrywide freedom movement. And now these brave young monks have risked their lives to remind the world of this truth.
I am so proud of the monks, so proud that I don’t even know what to say. It’s time to show the world how hypocrites the Chinese are. It’s amazing!!!! Keep up the good work Lhadon. We love you.
Britain’s GCHQ, via sattelite (from the Government communications agency) took a photo of chinese soldiers getting ready to dress as monks to stir up hatred beween communities : also I hear on tv today that the Muslim district in Lassa had been surrounded by the Chinese police (or army, quite the same in China it seems). Also I heard Mr the Chinese ambor telling lies ; why does eveybody keep these things hidden? Has everybody turned into as many as Mr Chamberlain?
I hope the Chinese President will understand that truth and , turning his heart into a good one, wil start an honest dialogue with His Hiliness. This will avoid everybody a lot of trouble… and may be the President of China will the next Peace Nobel Prize winner (only dumb people can’t change).?.
Britain\\\’s GCHQ, the government communications agency that electronically monitors half the world from space, has confirmed the claim by the Dalai Lama that agents of the Chinese People\\\’s Liberation Army, the PLA, posing as monks, triggered the riots in Lhasa since March 14 that have left hundreds of Tibetans dead or injured. In this file photo from the 2003 annual TCHRD Report shows Chinese Soldiers equipped with Tibetan Buddhist monk robes to make such tactical moves to justify their violent crackdown by implicating Tibetans as rioters. (Phayul.com) picture here
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Your action is to create anger, not solution!!! If China is angered by people like you, China is only going to become more violent. Shame on you!!!!!!!
Young Lee
Ottawa, Ontario
(Beijing is the hometown)
Young Lee, read MLK’s letter from Birmingham jail. Without crisis there can be no solution, only further marginalization of Tibetans and their aspirations to expel the occupier and regain their country. I understand that you oppose this aspiration, but that does not give you the right to judge what course of action is correct for people who seek it.
Chemay, while the claim that Chinese agents initiated violence is likely true, the stories about British intelligence confirming it are complete fabrications from a right-wing nutcase conspiracy theorist website, the “Canada Free Press”. Browse the net a little bit and you’ll find some background on them. Likewise, the image of the soldiers holding monks’ robes is a photoshop job, nothing more, and appears to date back to 2003.
Wait a minute, Mr. Young, China is not angered enough? How about the Tibetans? You ain’t seen nothing! Wait when China really pisses Tibetans off? Let’s see who can really get violent and hurt each other.
Dear Young Lee,
Were those German people wrong to resist Hitler? Did they have to become collaborators to soothe the Monster? Do you think you and us could be free to write on these blogs iwere not the brave and genuine partisans right from the beginning of the 2nd W.W?
His Holiness The Dalaï Lama has been calling twice for the free World -I mean people with a conscience, not with a big wallet to be stacked with banknotes stained qith blood of innocent Tibetans and others- to help Bod (Pö =Tibet) from the etnocide and genocide this government of China has been perpetuating for over 50 years… apart from our Courageous pro-Tibetan Senators in my country, very few people really do something in Europe… lip service …’ how much money can we make in China eventually?” that’s what most Western politicians think in secret. They call it : “Real Politik’….lip service for avoiding not to hurt the Monster -as you ggod heart thinks- but in order not to get those money banknotes stained with blood by the so-called Liberation army.
Some even pretend to be faithfull to General de Gaule…. my foot! (my eyes, if you permit me mentioning this eyes trade between Peru and Chiana).
Thode collaborators -not you, my good Mr Chamberlain- remind me of hox young monkes usedto be caught in Africa… a decanter would be half burried with a walnut inside… the young monkey wouls put his little hand inside -what a clever monkey, he thought he was!- grabbed the nut, would try to get his tiny hand out of the carafe… o! its fist made he prisonner, but it wouldn’ drop the nut….. that’s what new westerns collabo do with chinese money stained wit blood (genuine Christians call it the blood of Christez… if the is a Christ, he is in Zimbabwee, Darfoor, Amazonia, Tibet… Let’s pray for China to choose peaceful dialogue with His Holiness before he lets us alone, as Christ did before he left us…
maybe you want to be one of Dalai Lama’s women that can go to the hell with him happily.
Congratulation!
You seems very close now cause you looks like a BITCH!
Oh, another brainwashing website. enjoy yourself, idiots.
Satellite photo can not show so detail thing e.g. personal dressing and continue to monitor the event on one single spot.
Dalai Lama is Peace Nobel Prize winner and he is also a slave-owner and spy of CIA.
If Dalai Lama can not be blamed for the roit and volience, who will you assign the bad reputation to?
I a Buddhist and only interested in truth, not hearsay. I have seen many discussions on web forums about the picture mentioned in some above comments. Most possiblly the picture is just a film shooting scenario. Obviously the soldiers are in old uniform. Why does no one give when and where the picture was taken?
Any simple-minded person can be easily brain-washed. If any one want to understand how brain-wash is performed, go to http://www.anti-cnn to check the facts.
do you want to be dalai lama’s bitch?
Or you want to be white people’s bitch? Maybe you are just a slave dick!!!!
I take a neutral attitude here.
What is the real story about Tibet? What really happened before and after this riot? Should we believe in Dalai Lama, a former top leader of a slavery society in Tibet before 1959, or believe in Chinese government, a communist regime? Maybe we should look at the news from CNN or BBC. Unfortunately, those reports from CNN and BBC have been proved biased or manipulated on purpose.
I will not take a standpoint just from one message from one monk, no matter how much risk he took to send out the message. One reason is that in Tibet history before 1959 monks were very similar to the masters of slaves and actually exploited the salves very much. We can find the detailed accounts for this in some academic publications in the US. Losing power over other people is not pleasant to anybody, so I appreciate his action, but I cannot judge his true motivation.
What can we do? I guess the only answer is to go to Tibet to see what happened there. What was Tibet like in the past, and what is it like today?
Don’t take any political standpoint before we have the first hand fresh materials. Setting up your standpoint by relying on those propaganda machines and therefore accusing either of the two sides (Dalai Lama or the Chinese government) is vulnerable to any attack. It only gives rise to a lot of emotion and blocks your rationality.
As for Olympics 2008, I think it is not recommendable to associate it with politics. First, I don’t think the Chinese government will let Tibet to declare independence in order to cater to the Olympic game. Just imagine whether the British government let Scotland or Wales to declare independence just because of Olympics game 2012 at London. Second, if all the countries deny Olympic 2008, who are the real jeopardized people? Not you or me, but those athletic players, who devote their whole lives to challenge the physical limit of human being. We should not deprive of their right to join the Olympic game. Third, the impact of rejecting Olympic game is very limited. For example, the Olympic game rejection on Moscow 1980 by the US. I didn’t see any far reach political impact due to this rejection. So imposing pressure on the Chinese government with the Olympic game has a good motivation but it is a little naive. There should be a better way than this.
Finally, I have a question. I saw a lot of pictures and videos on the Internet taken by those western tourists when the riot happened. In these pictures and videos, I saw the monks were attacking the police with stone and sticks, and the police didn’t fight back but just hid behind the shields. Those pictures and videos also show that some shops were burned and some people were cruelly attacked by those Tibetan protests, some of whom were monks. I cannot believe in my eyes, because I am pretty sure those protests will be arrested right away and accused if this occurred in the US. I understand there are some issues there, but demonstrating the appeal with criminal actions is against the law. Nobody is entitled the right to harm or kill others and burn others’ assets, including both the government and the protests.
Hi Henry Thomas,
Apparently you are not real Buddhist as you can not tolerate any different opinions.
For some true story of Tibet before 1959, please see “Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth” by Michael Parenti who is an internationally known award-winning author and lecturer.
http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html
For the relationship between china and Tibet, please see one old USA documentation movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tOtVQ7cNWY&eurl=http://web.wenxuecity.com/BBSView.php?SubID=australia&MsgID=600342
regards
Correction: the web page should be http://www.anti-cnn.com
Henry, your mention of the anti-CNN website is confusing. Did you mean to imply that the Chinese kids who made the site are brainwashed or that people who trust CNN are?
For every stupid “pro-Tibetan” mistake CNN has made, they’ve given China 10 favors in their coverage. CNN is by far the most China-friendly of any of the Western TV stations, even running unedited CCTV clips on the first day of the uprising with the original CCTV headlines like “Dalai-backed violence scars Tibet”.
The only “truth” that’s relevant in the whole matter is that Tibetans are not Chinese, do not want to be Chinese, and do not want to be ruled by Chinese. Is that so hard to understand?
Rich, perhaps you do not understand what means by Chinese. Chinese refers to the 56 ethnic groups in China, which include Tibetans. All most all the countries in this world admit that Tibet is part of China. The problem is that those Tibetans who are inexile since 1959 are seeking independence of Tibet from China since then. Do you know who they were?
You’d better check the history of Tibet, the most easy way is to watch the video linked in the comments by “technical defect”.
You Bitch————————–Yousuck and brainwasher.