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The Dalai Lama and his band of thieves

Tue, 03/18/2008 - 11:55am

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What do Chinese authorities have to say about recent events in Tibet? They call the Dalai Lama's description of a brutal crackdown "ridiculous" and attribute the deaths to the rioters, maintaining that law enforcement personnel were not lethally armed while restoring order. Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao laid down the law Monday:

[T]he riot exposed once again the separatist inbeing of the Dalai Lama clique and the hypocritical and fraudulent nature of its so-called 'peace' and 'non-violence' allegations. Any attempts to split the motherland are firmly opposed by Chinese people of all ethnic groups including the Tibetan compatriots, and are doomed to failure."

Liu [also] said...a dozen atrocious incidents of attacking Chinese diplomatic missions overseas by 'Tibet independence' forces have sprung up. They were organized and planned by the Dalai clique to split China."

To hear the Chinese government and state-run media tell it, the Dalai Lama is a terrorist mastermind described in terms reminiscent of U.S. rhetoric on Osama bin Laden. They accuse the spiritual leader of directing his international gang of terrorists to provoke ethnic separatism and disrupt the Olympics. Someday, Chinese leaders might regret their sad attempts to marginalize their best hope for resolving the Tibet situation peacefully.

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It's like you said

by Peter Hofmann on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 4:37pm

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23400691-5005961,00.html

China - a country not.

by Cardano on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 8:09pm

As long as the Han Chinese Communist cabal in Beijing is in power there is little hope that any sense, or even some semblance of accepted standards will prevail.
Little hope of a let up of the oppression, racist subjugation and exploitation of Tibet and its hapless people.
They will continue to plough their inane, by now well and truly hackneyed line, that Tibet was and always will be a part of China.
It appears utterly impossible to elicit any reaction or response from this depraved cabal, which would resemble even just slightly a human trait.
So calls for a dialogue, appeals for common sense, or restraint are falling, not on death ears, but will never even enter a mind that could possibly comprehend such rational behaviour.
Of course there is never any mention of the fact that Tibet was exclusively populated by a completely distinct race with a unique culture and its own sovereign government before the Han Chinese Communist hordes invaded the country.
The uprising must be seen in context of the most barbaric repression and subjugation of a people that were independent for millennia and have endured this tyranny for over 50 years without any letup.
Nor has the world stood up for the victimized Tibetan people, or shown any sympathy, but in fact has tacitly approved of this heinous crime in order to pursue lucrative trade with the most populous nation on the planet.
Every government has prostituted itself so as not to offend the tyrants in Beijing, for trade and the mighty $ is all that matters in this ‘modern day’ world.
Forget about principals, ethics or morals, the suffering and genocide is someone else’s, and there is no oil there anyway.
Realpolitik = Prostitution
This is the 21st century and the year this regime is allowed to host the Olympics, an event that is supposed to be in the spirit of freedom, cooperation, friendship and harmony.
But events all around China and particularly Tibet belie this illusion and the games must be a defining event for the oppressed people of Tibet.
If only the so called “free press” would live up to this nomer and report the truth and facts about the Chinese atrocities in all its starkness.