IOC: No Torch in Tibet!
Posted: April 13th, 2008 under News.
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Comment from quebec canada
Time: April 13, 2008, 9:22 pm
QUESTIONS FOR DALAI LAMA
Dear Dalai Lama, could you honestly answer the following questions, promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
1.Had you personally accepted CIA’s annul payment of $186,000 for more than 10 years? What did you do with it? Had your organization accept CIA’s annul payment of $1.7 million for more than 10 years? How did you spend it? Is it true that you and your exile community today still live on American people’s tax dollars?
2. In 1996, 7years after you were awarded Nobel peace prize, why did you issue a ban of worshipping “Dorje Shugden” (a.k.a Dholgyal), a respected religious deity Tibetans have been worshiped for 300 years. Why those people in your community who fail to pledge to stop the Shugden worship were persecuted, their names, address, their children’s names and schools were posted in public, their lives threatened and forced to flee, their houses got burned, the monk who spoke up got stabbed? What happened since then? Have you lifted your ban? Are exile Tibetans free to worship “Dorje Shugden” now? Is any measure being set to prevent the these things ever happen again? Would you allow international human rights organizations to go to your exile community to investigate what happened 12 years ago? What do you think American people would feel if they know that their tax dollars has been used to subsidize all of these? What you are going to do to those religious deities that you don’t like in Tibet if you are allowed to return?
(The documentary filmed by Swiss public TV in 1998
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5sOm-uQH9Y&feature=related
An open letter to Dalai Lama
http://www.cesnur.org/testi/fr99/gkg2.htm)
3.As a peace lover, a peace promoter and a Nobel peace prize winner, why do you refuse to condemn the war in Iraq? What are the reasons you can think of to justified the killing of hundreds of thousands innocent Iraqi people?
4. Do you consider the Tibet under your rule before 1959 was a Shangri-La? Many US leading Tibetan historians have pointed out that old Tibet under your rule was strikingly similar to medieval Europe, do you agree with that?
5.Is it true that torture and mutilation–including eye gouging, the pulling out of tongues, hamstringing, and amputation–were favored punishments in your serfdom Tibet?
6. Why the schools in your exile community in India teach in English while you are accusing Chinese government culture genocide for teaching Chinese in the higher primary grades in Tibet? Could you give any credible evidence that culture genocide is happening in Tibet?
7. Is lying a violation of basic Buddhism discipline? Have you ever lied about Tibet to the world?
Reference:
The Shadow of the Dalai Lama
Victor & Victoria Trimondi
http://www.iivs.de/~iivs01311/SDLE/Part-2-17.htm
TIBET: TRUTH VS. MYTH
By Barrry SAUTMAN, JD, LLM, PhD
http://fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/thread/1062263.aspx?ArticleID=2187567
An interesting debate between an Australian scholar and the director of a British pro-Tibet organization
http://discussions.pbs.org/viewtopic.pbs?t=68073
Comment from Joe
Time: April 14, 2008, 3:32 am
Why don’t you write down your address in the columm, we will fuck you all day long. So you won’t be bored to death to do such things. You think you have the truth in hand? All you have is a buch of sperm that the CIA guys left for you.
You are going to hell. You go to China again and I swear we will kill you. Piece by piece.
Comment from quebec canada
Time: April 14, 2008, 1:33 pm
hi, your boss just said peaceful, lol
Comment from Tenzin
Time: April 15, 2008, 5:57 pm
Quebec Canada, very good. I like the fact that you post is revealing and thought-provoking. I think that you raise three very important points, namely: the Dorjee Shugden controversy, life in the pre-1959 Tibet and the teaching of Chinese in Tibetan schools in Tibet. The only thing that I have a problem is your assumption that the Dalai Lama is somehow to blame for all this. In truth, it is the very opposite of your beliefs. The Dalai Lama is probably the most thoughtful and forgiving Tibetan you will find out there. He has always espoused non-violence; he thinks well of the Chinese; he is open to negotiations and he is willing to sacrifice the freedom of Tibet for true-autonomy. He was not directly responsible for the conditions that pre-existed in Tibet. He has said that there is cultural genocide happening in Tibet and he is rightly concerned about the disappearance of the Tibetan language and culture. This is a case where each side thinks is right and both are right in their own opinion.
I don’t want to appear to be a traitor but I am merely looking things in an analytical fashion. Make no mistake; I do not think that Tibet is a part of China.
1. I think that you had an amount of less than $2 million that the American government gives to the Tibetan Government in Exile. I think that your figure is a little less. From what I read, I think it is either 2.3 or 2.5 million dollars. This money is given as an aid to the government in exile. I think that you may have not been to Dharamsala, and therefore you don’t know how that much money can be spent. The Tibetan government in exile is not just a prop but it is comprised of all the different branches of any legitimate government. There is the cabinet, the judiciary, and the parliament. There are the departments of information, finance, education, health, home, religion and culture, and lastly security. So, there are seven different departments. The Tibetan government clearly needs a lot more money to run it government; the $2.5 million from the US surely helps a bit.
2.I watched the documentary on the Dorjee Shugden controversy. I think to someone like me, it did not make a lot of sense. Most young Tibetan’s are not that religious and don’t hold old-world orthodox religious views. This controversy shows that HH the Dalai Lama is a very religious person as he should be, and that in the matters of religion, it is very clear that he is not willing to compromise. He believes that believing in the Shugden is harmful to him and Tibet. I am not a very religious person at all and such things to me are absolutely mind-boggling but HH the Dalai Lama is again a very religious. But I am not very happy about the fact that there could not be a middle ground about the issue. The monks and the lay people alike who believe in the Shugden are clearly very faithful to the Dalai Lama. The violent ways they were treated at the hands of ordinary Tibetan’s was particularly disturbing to me. To me, to tell you the truth, the beliefs in such deities is a relic of the past that we should not associate ourselves. Tibetans really need to stop praying to such gods and in general spend less time praying. The young don’t pray much at all; the old with all the time in the world pray, it seems 24/7. We really need to live more in the world of science and technology and business and spend less time on ancient practices of worship.
3.Life in Tibet before 1959 is horrifying, from the little than I saw in one of the documentaries. People in pillories and others in shackles and chains are what I saw in the documentary. The poor people in tatters and rags while the aristocrats with head-dresses and in fancy brocades. It truly was a very stratified society; that is truly a time in Tibet that we don’t want to go back to. I have heard gruesome details of life in Tibet. I don’t that we really think about it but it is really a shameful part of our history. It was really no Shangri-La and life for the ordinary Tibetan must have surely improved under the Chinese.
4. I think you make a good point for teaching Chinese in Tibet. I hate to say it but it kind of makes sense since Tibet being under China, Chinese is taught in Tibet. But children are also taught Tibetan in the early grades, which is in keeping, I think, with Article 4 of the Chinese constitution. Here it is:
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Article 4. Minority rights
All nationalities in the People’s Republic of China are equal. The state protects the lawful rights and interests of the minority nationalities and upholds and develops a relationship of equality, unity and mutual assistance among all of China’s nationalities. Discrimination against and oppression of any nationality are prohibited; any act which undermines the unity of the nationalities or instigates division is prohibited.
The state assists areas inhabited by minority nationalities accelerating their economic and cultural development according to the characteristics and needs of the various minority nationalities.
Regional autonomy is practiced in areas where people of minority nationalities live in concentrated communities; in these areas organs of self- government are established to exercise the power of autonomy. All national autonomous areas are integral parts of the People’s Republic of China.
Comment from A
Time: April 15, 2008, 8:29 pm
Why don’t you all leave her alone? Obviously none of you have your facts straight, and the use of foul language only undermines the already weak point you are trying to make.
Nobody is claiming that Tibet before the Chinese government was perfect. But it was much better than it is now, with the cultural genocide being perpetrated by the Chinese. Tibetans did not need Chinese help to reform, as both the 13th and 14th Dalai Lamas had initiated reforms, so stop spreading your “white man’s burden”-like propaganda about helping Tibet.
Comment from howard
Time: April 16, 2008, 7:27 am
Lhadon,
Thank you for all of your hard work. You are an inspiration to us all over here.
We support Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Dharma and true freedom for the Chinese people. The PRC will fall soon against its own legacy of ruthless hatred and murder.
Thanks again.
Comment from Gyalo
Time: April 16, 2008, 11:52 am
These Chinese commie agents are sprawling all over the internet.
BOD GYALO!
FREE TIBET!
Comment from stephen
Time: April 16, 2008, 4:38 pm
Published on Monday, April 14, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
The Hypocrisy and Danger of Anti-China Demonstrations
by Floyd Rudmin
We hear that Tibetans suffer “demographic aggression” and “cultural
genocide”. But we do not hear those terms applied to Spanish and French
policies toward the Basque minority. We do not hear those terms applied to
the US annexation of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1898. And Diego Garcia? In
1973, not so long ago, the UK forcibly deported the entire native Chagossian
population from the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. People were
allowed one suitcase of clothing. Nothing else. Family pets were gassed,
then cremated. Complete ethnic cleansing. Complete cultural destruction. Why
? In order to build a big US air base. It has been used to bomb Afghanistan
and Iraq, and soon maybe to bomb Iran and Pakistan. Diego Garcia, with
nobody there but Brits and Americans, is also a perfect place for rendition,
torture and other illegal actions.
When the Olympics come to London in 2012, the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu
will certainly lead the demonstrators protesting the “demographic
aggression” and “cultural genocide” in Diego Garcia. The UN Secretary
General, the President of France, the Chancellor of Germany, the new US
President and the entire US Congress will certainly boycott the opening
ceremonies.
The height of hypocrisy is this moral posturing about 100 dead in race riots
in Lhasa, while the USA, UK and more than 40 nations in the Coalition of
the Willing wage a war of aggression against Iraq. This is not “demographic
aggression” but raw shock-and-awe aggression. A war crime. A war on
civilians, including the intentional destruction of the water and sewage
systems, and the electrical grid. More than one million Iraqis are now dead;
five million made into refugees. The Western invaders may not be doing “
cultural genocide” but they are doing cultural destruction on an immense
scale, in the very cradle of Western Civilization. Why is the news filled
with demonstrators about Tibet but not about Iraq?
And as everyone knows but few dare say, “demographic aggression” and “
cultural genocide” can be applied most accurately to Israel’s settlement
policies and systematic destruction of Palestinian communities. On this, the
Dalai Lama seems silent. Demonstrators don’t wave flags for bulldozed
homes, destroyed orchards, or dead Palestinian children.
The Chinese Context
The Chinese government is responsible for the well-being and security of one
-fourth of humanity. Race riots and rebellion cannot be tolerated, not even
when done by Buddhist monks.
Chinese Civilization was already old when the Egyptians began building
pyramids. But the last 200 years have not gone well, what with two Opium
Wars forcing China to import drugs, and Europeans seizing coastal ports as a
step to complete colonial control, then the Boxer Rebellion, the collapse
of the Manchu Dynasty, civil war, a brutal invasion and occupation by Japan,
more civil war, then Communist consolidation and transformation of society,
then Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Such events caused tens of millions of
people to die. Thus, China’s recent history has good reasons why social
order is a higher priority than individual rights. Race riots and rebellion
cannot be tolerated.
Considering this context, China’s treatment of its minorities has been
exemplary compared to what the Western world has done to its minorities.
After thousands of years of Chinese dominance, there still are more than 50
minorities in China. After a few hundred years of European dominance in
North and South America, the original minority cultures have been
exterminated, damaged, or diminished.
Chinese currency carries five languages: Chinese, Mongolian, Tibetan, Uigur,
and Zhuang. In comparison, Canadian currency carries English and French,
but no Cree or Inuktitut. If the USA were as considerate of ethnic
minorities as is China, then the greenback would be written in English,
Spanish, Cherokee and Hawaiian.
In China, ethnic minorities begin their primary schooling in their own
language, in a school administered by one of their own community. Chinese
language instruction is not introduced until age 10 or later. This is in
sharp contrast to a history of coerced linguistic assimilation in most
Western nations. The Australian government recently apologized to the
Aboriginal minority for taking children from their families, forcing them to
speak English, beating them if they spoke their mother tongue. China has no
need to make such apology to Tibetans or to other minorities.
China’s one-child-policy seems oppressive to Westerners, but it has not
applied to minorities, only to the Han Chinese. Tibetans can have as many
children as they choose. If Han people have more than one child, they are
punished.
There is a similar preference given to minorities when it comes to admission
to universities. For example, Tibetan students enter China’s elite Peking
University with lower exam scores than Han Chinese students.
China is not a perfect nation, but on matters of minority rights, it has
been better than most Western nations. And China achieved this in the
historical context of restoring itself and recovering from 200 years of
continual crisis and foreign invasion.
Historical Claims
National boundaries are not natural. They all arise from history, and all
history is disputable. Arguments and evidence can always be found to
challenge a boundary. China has long claimed Tibet as part of its territory,
though that has been hard to enforce during the past 200 years. The Dalai
Lama does not dispute China’s claim to Tibet. The recent race riots in
Tibet and the anti-Olympics demonstrations will not cause China to shrink
itself and abandon part of its territory. Rioters and demonstrators know
that.
Foreign governments promoting Tibet separatism and demonstrators demanding
Tibet independence should look closer to home. Canadians can campaign for Qu
ébec libre. Americans can support separatists in Puerto Rico, Vermont,
Texas, California, Hawaii, Guam, and Alaska. Brits can work for a free Wales
, and Scotland for the Scots. French can help free Tahitians, New
Caledonians, Corsicans, and the Basques. Spaniards can also back the Basques
, or the Catalonians. Italians can help Sicilian separatists or the Northern
League. Danes can free the Faeroe Islands. Poles can back Cashubians.
Japanese can help Okinawan separatists, and Filipinos can help the Moros.
Thai can promote Patanni independence; Indonesians can promote Acehnese
independence. New Zealanders can leave the islands to the Maori; Australians
can vacate Papua. Sri Lankans can help Tamil separatists; Indians can help
Sikh separatists.
Nearly every nation has a separatist movement of some kind. There is no need
to go to Tibet, to the top of the world, to promote ethnic separatism.
China is not promoting separatism in other nations and does not appreciate
other nations promoting separatism in China. The people most oppressed, most
needing a nation of their own, are the Palestinians. There is a worthy
project to promote and to demonstrate about.
Danger of Demonstrations
These demonstrations do not serve Tibetans, but rather use Tibetans for
ulterior motives. Many Tibetans, therefore, oppose these demonstrations.
Many Chinese remember their history and see the riots in Lhasa and
subsequent demonstrations as another attempt by foreign powers to dismember
and weaken China. There is grave danger that Chinese might come to fear
Tibetans as traitors, resulting in wide spread anti-Tibetan feelings in
China.
Fear that an ethnic minority serves foreign forces caused Canada, during
World War 1, to imprison its Ukranian minority in concentration camps. For
similar reasons, the Ottomans deported their Armenian minority and killed
more than a million in death marches. The German Nazis saw the Jewish
minority as traitors who caused defeat in World War 1; hence deportations in
the 1930s and death camps in the 1940s. During World War 2, both Canada and
the USA feared that their Japanese immigrant minorities were traitorous and
deported them to concentration camps. Indonesians fearing their Chinese
minority, deported 100,000 in 1959 and killed thousands more in 1965. Israel
similarly fears its Arab minority, resulting in deportations and oppression.
Hopefully, the Chinese government and the Chinese people will see Tibetans
as victims of foreign powers rather than agents of foreign powers. However,
if China reacts like other nations have in history and starts systematic
severe repression of Tibetans, then today’s demonstrators should remember
their role in causing that to happen.
Conclusion
The demonstrators now disparaging China serve only to distract themselves
and others from seeing and correcting the current failings of their own
governments. If the demonstrators will take a moment to listen, they will
hear the silence of their own hypocrisy.
The consequences of these demonstrations are 1) China will stiffen its
resolve to find foreign influences inciting Tibetans to riot, and 2) the
governments of the USA, UK, France and other Western nations will have less
domestic criticism for a few weeks. That is all. These demonstrations can
come to no good end.
Comment from fuckdalailama
Time: April 17, 2008, 7:59 pm
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for u all fukers, come to beijing this summer,
i gonna fuck up u guys one by one!hahaha
Comment from 李毅
Time: April 17, 2008, 10:01 pm
嘿嘿，来吧，来吧，和谐了你们
Comment from tenzin
Time: April 18, 2008, 1:42 pm
Don’t read the above essay but rather read the essays that are in the current Time and Newsweek magazines. I hope that all Tibetans are reading what is being printed in the newspapers, and magazines.
I want to say a few things about what I have observed of Tibetans. And I don’t mean all Tibetans but there seems to be a group of Tibetans that are getting out of control. I might have to say that the Tibetan Youth Congress espousing violence as a means to an end is not the best thought-out policy. We, the Tibetans, have to understand that violence against China will not get us anything but into trouble. It is trouble that we don’t want but rather we want to make progress. Violence on our parts will result in the use of violence on teh part of the Chiinese Government. There is no way that we will make any siginificant improvements in the Tibet through the use of violence.
Another thing that I did not like about Tibetans who mentioned the use of violence against the Chinese was that there was a feeling of desperation in the air. Desperation is never good in a fight. If you are desperate to do anything just becasue you can not think of a better way to deal with a situation, is usually a sign of weakness. It does not only show how desperate some of the Tibetan youth is but it also shows how unprepared and stupid they really are. To think that we can win by fighting China not only shows the lack of sophistication by some of our youth but it also shows how desperate some of us have become.
Don’t forget that there are many ways to solve a situation, and such is the case with China. It is widely thought that China will become a democracy someday, perhaps in the near future, so a lot of things will chage when the CCP will no longer hold sway of China. What we should do now is adhere to nonviolent practices in our approach. The recent protests in London, Paris and San Francisco were very successful. We really had the attention of the media and the world.
There are many things that need improvement, especially in the exile community in India. We should not be so accepting of the poor level of education that our students and children in India, such as in Dharamsala, have been receiving for 40 or more years. We need to change the way our schools are run, so that we ensure better quality students in teh future. We should not be so accepting of the high number of students in our Tibetan schools in India performing so miserably. Education is one thing that we should not be compromising on. Education of our students today are the hope of our future.
We need better educated people in our Tibetan community. What are we going to do in a free Tibet if we will not be able to take care of things. I mean if we don’t have competent people in our community, how do we expect that we can take care of Tibet, if it were to become free tomorrow. With no source of income in Tibet, the country will be thrown in chaos. Right now, I read in the NYT, this year Tibet was expecting $850 million in tourism dollars. This year was expected to be 25 percent higher than last year. And much of that money is coming from tourist from China.
Getting back to the desperate Tibetan youth, I don’t think most of them know the real situation in depth. I have said before that we should know the policies of China, and US and try to learn about the situation in Tibet. I also read someone say, what has the Dalai Lama done uptill now other than get medals for himself. Such thinking shows the ignorance and the unsophistication of our youth. The Dalai Lama can not do anything other than wait for a mutually agreeable outcome through dialogue. China has changed enormously and our hope of returning is getting better and better. When that day comes when we will return to Tibet, I just want to know, if we can take care of our selves in Tibet?
I really think that so far we have had it easy for the Tibetans in exile. We have really not hav to think of our country or our government. If we are willing to do all we can for Tibet, the best we can do is through education. Let us study political science, and literature and science and art etc…. Let us be competent. This Indian professor was giving a talk on China and the West and he said, “the reason the West has been so successful is because of the competency of its people.” We really can not blame the Dalai Lama for our own imcompetency. Nor can we wait for the Dalai Lama to work miracles. Right now, the only thing that should be inour minds is to make ourselves a competent people. Without competency all hope is lost.
Good Luck.
Comment from tian
Time: April 18, 2008, 7:22 pm
Bravo Tenzin!!! Well said!!
Comment from Jian
Time: April 20, 2008, 1:28 pm
The Chinese government should lobby like the Jewish community. Right now they are too unsophisticated to realize that the ignorant democratic world will not be won over by virtue and kindness. They only listen to money.
Comment from Rich
Time: April 21, 2008, 12:54 pm
Stephen, this Floyd Rudmin guy knows nothing about Tibet and seems to be part of a misguided leftist thinktank that hasn’t gotten past the Cold War and still thinks China is communist as opposed to ultra-capitalist. He also hates America (for many good reasons, of course) but then goes down the treacherous path of “my enemy’s enemy is my friend” and thereby falls in love with China. So, I’d take anything he says with a grain of salt…
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Time: April 21, 2008, 4:59 pm
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Comment from Observer Consciousness
Time: April 22, 2008, 3:16 am
What ho, what ho!?
It would appear that everyone here is not right!
But everyone here is also not wrong!
And also not both right and wrong simultaneously.
Nor is everyone neither right nor wrong simultaneously!
(Does this make any sense? I should not hope not!)
However, I have here a couple of links that will make a lot of sense (to no-one and everyone simultaneously) as they point to some very concrete facts about the Chinese govt. on the one hand and about the Dalai Lama on the other.
For those (Chinese people) who think that the Chinese government is sooo great, please visit:
Victims
and you will see what can happen to YOU if for some reason the Chinese government starts to dislike you.
And For those who think that the assorted gurus, esp. the Dalai Lama, are sooo great, please visit:
Dalai Lama
to see what can happen to you if you get too close to him!
Meaningfully nonsensically yours,
Observer Consciousness
P.S. If you want to learn how to use the word “bitch” in a new, and highly pertinent sense, please hop to:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/gurus/agents.html
P.P.S. Well, perhaps in a few million years from now we will finally have acquired some sense so there will be no need for blogs like this…
Comment from Michael
Time: April 22, 2008, 2:07 pm
I know that the Tibetans have a right and legitimate cause.. but the cause has been greatly exploited and abused by politicians and specific groups for political agendas. Can you pro-Tibet staff give me an explanation on the funding from NED (CIA’s Front Org) to SFT and other Tibet Orgs. All the protests look so well organized, well rehearsed, we trained and with catchy phrases. This surely doesn’t like a group of civilians who simply took a day off and went onto the street to protest. All the professional looking banners, newly printed flag, shirts, transporations cost a huge amount of money and resources. It surpries my friends and I when they travel from city to city to protest. This organization looks much more professional and experienced than those nationalistc and naive chinese exchange students who pick up chinese flags from chinese embassy staffs. It makes many of us wonder who is funding all this…. including a group of English pro-Tibet protests “accidently” chant “Free Japan” in London until a “leader” told them its Free Tibet not “Free Japan”
Comment from Akatsuki
Time: April 23, 2008, 9:46 am
This is a reply to buckaroo banzai’s April 23, 2008 post in Tibet Will Be Free: Everest Climber Removed Over Tibet Flag.
Why am I posting it here? Because you fuckers don’t have the decency to allow the general public to read and respond to your blog, *regardless* that it’s labeled “global.”
How are you any different in restricting free speech than the way you say the Chinese do?
Here’s my response, directly to you, buckaroo banzai:
“Though who know what he is planning” is right. Not only does that sentence showcase your apparent lack of grammar, it also brings home this point: We don’t know what that man might have done, and it’s a good thing he was caught ahead of time. I don’t care of his ideals or his courage, the fact of the matter is that he broke the law and he was escorted off the Everest grounds for it. Be happy - you say that he’s going to come back to the US a hero. If he’d been detained, would you have cried and protested for him, too?
Give my regards to him, Lladon Tethong. If you even read this thing.
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Time: April 24, 2008, 8:01 am
[…] advocates, barraging voicemails with threatening messages and filling blogs with such posts as, “you are going to hell. You go to China again and I swear we will kill you. Piece by piece.&rd… A more serious fall-out of the massive opposition is the cementing of nationalistic fervor inside […]
Comment from Akatsuki
Time: April 25, 2008, 8:45 am
Hey, guess why I’m back again. You fuckers still don’t allow access to responding members, huh.
This is a reply for F. X. Leach, who wrote “The Beatings will Continue” on April 24, 2008 in the Tibet will be Free blog.
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Condemning China’s all very well and good, but before you stick your nose into a country’s affairs halfway around the world, why don’t you think of the “beatings” that occur right in your own home?
“The beatings will continue until morale improves.”
“Cultural assimilation of Native American tribes will continue until they are no more.”
If China is whitewashing Tibet, then is the US brownwashing the Native Americans? Or maybe the right phrase is brainwashing, as that certainly seems to be the case.
Why don’t you worry about some human rights violations within your own borders before you go rampaging about those in others.
Comment from [email protected]
Time: April 26, 2008, 10:00 am
Think about a man who violently enters a house and decides to beat up all the people in that house without any sort of distinction among men, women and children.
Go on thinking about that man that decides to remain in that house sustaining that it belongs to him.
Think about this man who later gives a party and invites you and many other people who, just like you know what he has done.
What would you do?
Would you go to that party?
And if that house obtained with violence would actually be yours
This story has not been invented. It’s just what actually has happened and still is happening in Tibet just in front of our eyes.
The olympics are an occasion of richness for China.
But the olympics can bring richness only if there are men who force their consciousness to silence, watching that show full of blood.
If no one decides to go or turn on TV to watch the event, there would be a huge media flop
So there’s no need for you to make any obvious gesture.
To help who suffers and to show your dissent to these cruel methods you just need to you turn off the TV.
Don’t watch this bloody show!
Boycott the Olympics!
Turn off the TV!
Spread this message.
Sign the glass showcase against the Olympics on TV : http://www.nochinagames.com
[email protected]
Comment from Akatsuki
Time: May 4, 2008, 9:10 am
You have no documentation that these photos came from a situation of Chinese vs. Tibetan. They could very well come from a crime scene of Tibetan and Tibetan - in which case you have no right to use these photos for your “information” spreading. It would just be propaganda, and you’ll just be like all the other totalitarian regimes over the years - Hitler, Mussolini. How can you claim to be fighting for freedom if you misinform your people like this?
Comment from Ice Bug
Time: May 7, 2008, 8:26 pm
Today the torch has arrived at the summit of Himalaya mountain.
Comment from Steven
Time: May 13, 2008, 12:10 pm
When I watched the aftermath of huge quake that rattled half of China, my heart saddened.
However when I watched how chinese people rushed to rescue, I was so touched. They are well organized, everyone is single-minded — just help. There is no riots, no pulling legs.
Go China Go!
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