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Dalai Lama's nephew blasts China's crackdown as 3rd invasion of Tibet
Mar 24, 2008, 8:46 GMT
Taipei - The nephew of the Dalai Lama and a parliamentarian in the Tibetan government-in-exile on Monday condemned China's crackdown on riots in Tibet as Beijing's third invasion of the region.
'The first invasion was China's military occupation of Tibet from 1950 to 1959,' Khedroob Thondup, said in an interview in Taipei. 'The second invasion was the launch of the Beijing-Lhasa railway last year, and this is the third invasion.'
Thondup, 65, who is married to a Taiwanese, said the recent violence in Tibet reflected Tibetans' pent-up anger at Chinese rule and showed Bejing's policy on Tibet has been a failure.
He said China is afraid of allowing the Dalai Lama to return to his homeland because Tibetans love him.
'But there is only one person who can solve the violence in Tibet, and that is the Dalai Lam,' he said.
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I have had to read your comment twice to detect the sarcasm.
China also needs to learn from Israel handling of the Palestinians and apply generously. After all, which country can tolerate anarchy and violence. Take a closer look at these tibetans-in-exile and what they are advocating. Read about the history of Tibet before and after Chinese liberation. Not many westerners will even bother. But they (western media) will be first to jump at the opportunity to undermine China as if by impulse. However, there is a new dynamic among the Chinese all over the world. They can read the bias, they can see through the attempts of the western propaganda machine. That is why even with the Tibet riots, the Taiwan election went ahead with a Ma Ying Jeou victory.
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Joe in CAMar 24th, 2008 - 09:40:01
No, China has it right. Kill all insurgents, and 're-educate' the remaining ones, who will then just die later on in labor camps. Isn't colonization and mass genocide grand? They learned from the US and the American Indians well.
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