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Dalai Lama urges world community to pressure China on Tibet
Apr 3, 2008, 10:43 GMT
New Delhi - The Dalai Lama has appealed to the international community for its 'continued support,' saying the Chinese authorities had deployed a large number of troops to crack down on the unrest in Tibet and had sealed these areas to the outside world.
The Tibetan spiritual leader insisted the protests were a manifestation of the 'deep-rooted resentment' not only in the so-called Tibetan Autonomous Region, but also in traditional Tibetan areas now incorporated into Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, where millions of Tibetans live.
'According to reliable sources, the Chinese authorities have deployed large contingents of troops in these traditional Tibetan regions and have not only started to crack down heavily on the Tibetans allegedly involved in the unrest, but also sealed off areas where the protests have taken place,' the Dalai Lama said in a statement issued late on Wednesday night.
The Dalai Lama is based in the north Indian hill town of Dharamsala, with his government-in-exile.
In the statement posted on his website, the Dalai Lama appealed to world leaders, parliamentarians, NGOs and members of the public for support in urging an end to the crackdown, the release of all detainees and the provision of medical treatment to the injured.
Quoting reports, he said many injured Tibetans were afraid to go the Chinese-run hospitals and clinics for treatment. The Dalai Lama requested that an independent international body be sent to probe the protests.
'I would also request you to encourage the sending of an independent international body, to investigate the unrest and its underlying causes, as well as allowing the media and international medical teams to visit the affected areas,' he said.
He maintained that international presence would reassure Tibetans and be a restraining influence on Chinese authorities.
Pro-independence demonstrations and unrest began in Tibetan areas on March 10, the 49th anniversary of a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule.
The protests escalated into rioting on March 14 in Lhasa. The Chinese government has said 19 people were killed in the violence in Lhasa but the Tibetan government-in-exile said about 140 people were killed, most of them Tibetans shot by Chinese police.
Protests erupted in other Tibetan areas of China, which is home to about six million Tibetans, including some 2.5 million in the Autonomous Region.
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Dalai Lama should go back to meditation. Ask himself why he allowed violence to erupt in the first place. He should not continue to be the agitator and preach peace, he must choose his actions to commensurate with his ideals before people will buy it anymore.
Everytime Dalai Lama says something like 'bloody crackdowns by China', the jounalists write it in their articles like facts. Everytime China says something like 'suicide attack by Tibetans, or '7500 tons of explosives', the journalists follow it by, 'but they gave no evidence'.
a few of international communities reporters who was ever standing and watching there during the Tibet Unrest, all of the newspaper, TV program etc. , i say they know nothing just like everyone us who lives his own country, works or learns at his own company,school, we know nothing also. But, we hate guys who wanna break the human peace,who wanna make more news on paper and screens for people's interests. I like Russian, Chinese,American,Middle-East people,they are all great nations, we must respect these nations,these country,these people and there government, especially the unrest or the war coming, we are not pirates of caribbean,or pirates of American army or others who has joined into the wars happened everywhere.
a few of international communities reporters who was ever standing and watching there during the Tibet Unrest, all of the newspaper, TV program etc. , i say they know nothing just like everyone us who lives his own country, works or learns at his own company,school, we know nothing also. But, we hate guys who wanna break the human peace,who wanna make more news on paper and screens for people's interests. I like Russian, Chinese,American,Middle-East people,they are all great nations, we must respect these nations,these country,these people and there government, especially the unrest or the war coming, we are not pirates of caribbean,or pirates of American army or others who has joined into the wars happened everywhere.
I always respected the Dalai Lama as a preacher for peace and compassion. I was completely shocked 10 years ago when I came across with an article about him on salon.com www.salon.com/news/1998/07/13news.html
I urge everyone who is interested in the Dalai Lama read this article.
Dali Lama should be grateful that the Chinese are more generous to letting him shoot off his propaganda campaign and crimes against innocent Chinese civilians than the Americans are to the terrorist leaders of those that wish innocent Americans civilians harm.
Otherwise a cruise missile would be traveling down from the skies through his front door right now.
It seemed to be that Dalai Lama is more like a political Monk than a religious Monk. I understand his power was weakened 50 years ago after he signed 17-provision agreement with central government. However, that was the trend of human progress. A slavery-religious tribe only allowed 5% people enjoy lives while most of Tibetans suffering from crucial suppression and poor lives. Tibet is hundred times better now than 50 years. Go to Tibet asked senior peoples.
Dalai should make reasonable demands to Chinese government and stop some violence occurring in front of many Chinese Embassies at least. It would be in vein when Dalai Lama tries to beg support from some leaders in Europe. Will Chinese government yield, especially she gets overwhelming supports from ordinary Chinese people including Tibetans.
It seemed to be that Dalai Lama is more like a political Monk than a religious Monk. I understand his power was weakened 50 years ago after he signed 17-provision agreement with central government. However, that was the trend of human progress. A slavery-religious tribe only allowed 5% people enjoy lives while most of Tibetans suffering from crucial suppression and poor lives. Tibet is hundred times better now than 50 years. Go to Tibet asked senior peoples.
Dalai should make reasonable demands to Chinese government and stop some violence occurring in front of many Chinese Embassies at least. It would be in vein when Dalai Lama tries to beg support from some leaders in Europe. Will Chinese government yield, especially she gets overwhelming supports from ordinary Chinese people including Tibetans.
On this very page we can see just how hard the Chinese propagandists are working to blacken the name of that great man of peace, the Dalai Lama. The Chinese government fears people who speak truth to those in power. That is why they just sentenced prominent Chinese civil rights activist Hu Jia to 3 1/2 years in jail, for simply advocating democracy and human rights in public. What this tells me is that it is worthwhile to continue to speak in favor of freedom, justice, and human rights in China, for if Chinese propagandists are working so hard to vilify the advocates of peace and freedom, they must deeply fear the effects of public advocacy of human rights workers seeking freedom and justice in China and Tibet. How deeply the government of China would love to jail every voice of criticism and dissent who dares to speak out on these pages! I ask each person who reads these pages to think of what it would be like to live in a place where writing the above article, or posting any criticism of the Chinese government on these pages, is punishable by lengthy imprisonment at the will of those in power.
Chinese posters, are you enjoying your current prosperity? It is founded on your exports to the free world. Beware lest your continuing outraging of our every sensibility which favors peace, justice, and human rights leads us to boycott your country's goods. Your efforts to poison our minds with your propaganda will not avail, indeed, your efforts simply remind us that you have given us poisoned medications, food, clothing, children's toys, pet food, toothpaste, and other products. We in the free world are reminded daily of how foolish we are to place our trust in the Chinese government to protect that most basic of human rights, the right to good health. India, a thriving democracy where freedom of speech is allowed, is ready and willing to take your place in the world's economy, and I, for one, would welcome that development.
Current Chinese people more believe our own eyes, and current technology has been very developed, nobody can cheat people.
Dalai and oversea Tibetan were just the masters of those previous Tibetan slaves who included those political monks, they ran away after Chairman Mao brought democracy to Tibet slaves, and they were failed fighting against PLA, they are dreaming to come back to Tibet and recover their previous right and positions just like living in heaven, no way!!! We Chinese and most Tibetan people strongly support Chinese government.
Besides China is too big to go up against.
BTW, I have nothing to do with Chinese government, I work for a foreign company in Shanghai, but this time we think bias have been planted into the mind of many Western people.
Why? because our government was very weak communicating with Western world.
In the previous Chinese history, China was controlled by Mongolia, we call it Yuan Dynasty, then controlled by Han, we call Song and Ming dynasty, then Controlled by Man, we call it Qing Dynasty. Actually many ethnics controlled China before. But Han, Tibetan, inner Mogolia and other 51 ethnics are one family now, we are called Chinese.
Since Yuan dynasty, Tibet has been a part of China, it's never been a country just like other any ethnics in China, we have been living together, and mixed.
Actually China government is very good to Tibetan, our Han people are the second class people there, we have to let Tibetan first everywhere and every sides, and government afford totally 45K monks there by providing them salary, and maintain and build the temples.....
There are totally more than 3000 ethnics in the world, but we only have around 200 countries. That's world and country.
@ Tim Dunn
Don't continue the meaningless debate. It's time for us to DO something now. Join me.
The U.S. should stand up for Tibetans and show the world that we are the true leader of freedom and democracy. We at the very least should re-open the CIA military training camp for the Dalai Lama's resistance fighters at Camp Hale near Leadville, Colorado. His Holiness Dalai Lama worked for the CIA in 1950's-1970's. It's time for us to reward a long time friend and his followers.
Although it's true our economy isn't going perfect and is heading to a great recession, I'd say no need to worry too much about the funds for our operation. We can ask Japanese to financially support the Free Tibet movement. The Dalai Lama loves Japanese people. He enthusiastically endorsed a Japanese spiritual movement, 'Aum Shinrikyo', in 1980's-1990's.
We can also ask Germany for some substantial support from Europe. Germans had deep connections with Tibet in 1930's and 1940's. The Dalai Lama's tutor in 1940's was Heinrich Harrer, a member of the 'Schutzstaffel'. These people are closely linked together. We can form a huge coalition force for sure to change Tibet back to Shangri-La.
We can't wait for any longer. Let's all dream together for a Free Tibet, forever!
Why has the Chinese government acted so slowly is dealing with these terrorists?
How could it let unauthorized media escape the region, to be used by the Western propaganda (‘news’) services?
Those responsible should be executed immediately, and their families jailed.
It is a crime for other countries to try and tell China how to conduct its internal affairs.
Do they not also use military force against whom they decide are terrorists?
Anti-Chinese government activities of any kind should be met with bullets, immediately.
Dalai Lama is a good follower of Ben Laden.
As born an American Citizen having lived in the USA all my life I find it interesting that people want to say I am part of a Chinese propaganda machine.
I formulate my own opinions based upon continuous research.
And the vast majority of Chinese love their country. The opionion rating of the Chinese government by it's citizens is higher than any other country.
And they are aghast that the Chinese government caved into International pressure and went soft on the Tibetan terrorists. As a democracy the Chinese government has to listen to it's people and stop these Tibetan's terrorists in their tracks - no international pressure is going to make a difference now that the Chinese people are truly aware of the intentions of the Dalai Lama and their followers.
Actually Tim Dunn, you hit the nail on the head. It is funny to see how the Chinese Communist propoganda is being spread by bloggers with Western names like Tom and Dick and Harry (foe example) in these pages, as though Americans are actually supporting the Chinese Communsts. Very smart. Most schmucks around the world would actually fall for this propaganda! Joe Goebbles lives!
I use my real name
Rasputyn,
I am sorry for mistaking you as Tibetan (for the reason, your name does spell like theirs). You mention you are a Russian. You know what? I have been to Siberia, Russia twice to work for a Russian gas company as an American expert and saw with my own eyes what the people, land and life is alike there. I concluded that my experience there is very different from what we taught and thought about Russia in the States.
It’s the same analog here. If you have never been to Tibet, how do you know whether what you heard is true? I don’t dispute the human right problems there, but Tibetan issue is much more complicated than that, unfortunately, this is not a place I can elaborate.
I said I am disappointed at those Tibetan activists, because not only they don’t understand what’s going there, but also they can’t tolerate different opinions (That’s when they lost a debate, they turned to profanity). This kind of attitude will doom their movement.
I encourage you listen to both sides of story. Like it or not, China controls Tibet for 50 years now and how do you think they do it? Do you need a hint? Let you tell you; Carrot and stick. You think you know what stick is. Do you know what and how big the carrot is?
Do you really know what privilege Tibetans have over local ethnic Chinese? So why they still said they have no freedom? You need to dig deeper in order to know that.
As my parting words, I repeat what I said before, “...most Tibetan protestors are non-Tibetans and have never been to Tibet…” it seems so unfortunately true, because, apparently, that includes you.
Rasputyn
You obviously do not get it. I and many others that are supporting the rights of China are Americans. Born, raised and educated here.
Just because we support the right of the Chinese peoples independence for the cultural values of Americans does not mean we believe that these same values are correct for Americans.
I love the freedoms I have in America, I hate to see the American military torture, keep prisoners without trial, and kill innocent civilians in other countries.
And I would not support China doing the same in other countries. But China can do whatever they please in China as long as the majority of Chinese support it to a great extent.
China also has a strict non-interference policy in other nations politics. Something I wish Americans could learn from. The CIA has a long history of involvement in overthrowing democratically elected government only to place despots that cater to American interests into power. As the CIA tried to do and is trying to do with the Dalai Lama.
Truthfully, as an American I think we have plenty of problems back home. We have more incarcerated prisoners here per capita than any other nation in the world. Civil rights is still a joke, sexism and literally slavery to a ruling class is becoming more rampant.
If America wants to help bring change in countries like China we should lead by example. Like stop spying on citizens without warrants. Have a fair and equitable justice system. And stop sending our military around the world to conquer people that mean us no great harm.
I have a very good solution for Tibet/China problem, no one will get hurt except two people:
The opening game of the Olympics 2008 will be a 10-round boxing match. The 2 contenders are China's president Hu Jintao and Tibet's spritual leader Dalai Lama. It will be a fair and clean game. No cheating, no piracy, no copycat, no steroid, no leaded boxing gloves, no AK47, ...
If Hu Jintao wins, China owns Tibet.
If Dalai Lama wins, Tibet gets its freedom and independence from China.
Each side, 2 million Tibetans represented by Dalai Lama and 1.5 billion Chinese represented by Hu Jintao shall honorably accept the outcome of the boxing match.
You can bet you money, six billion people will watch the game very closely.
Tim Dunn, not only are you right, you are correct. (I am still laughing at how my humour can go awry...which is why I might have some typos below.) But the world needs to work both ends. The world needs to stop using China as its manufacturer. But that starts when consumers refuse to buy made in China. That is a carrot that is much more powerful than the stick, but the stick is important too. People in the US are oblivious to the ambitions of the chinese government (although the pentagon is worried). Somewhere i have a quote of a Chinese general who stated that war with the US was inevitable. Of course most amuricins think that the US is so great that such things can never happen. The giant is sleeping and needs to be awakened. BTW I am reminded of the film producer who back in the 1970s (1980s?) remarked that a billion humourless people were more dangerous than a bilion war-mongers...anyone remember who that was?
It is not China that wants war with America. But it is the American Military and our politicians that are looking and preparing for war with China.
This is a fools game. China and the Chinese people actually respect America and our system of politics and economy. That is why they have embraced democracy and capitalism.
As a former Military officer I remember all too well my peers dreaming of war in the Middle East. We planned for it and basically made an excuse to go in there with missles and guns. Such is the danger of wanting war.
For more information you can go to: blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/05/americas_new_china_war_plan.ht ml
THE images of the saffron-robed monks in Lhasa's Jokhang Temple complaining about rights and freedom and demanding the return of the Dalai Lama certainly grabbed the attention of the world's media.
It was a very effective intervention by the monks. Yet, what do they know about Tibet's feudal past, which ended only in 1959?
After all, most of them are young men around 20 and know their spiritual leader only by his name.
The 14th Dalai Lama, like all his predecessors, was the biggest serf-owner. He owned every inch of land and every head of cattle in Tibet and was free to exploit ?? even sell off ?? his serfs and slaves.
Had the protesting young monks known this, they would probably know better than to fiddle with the notion of human rights now.
They complained of having no religious rights, but the central government has allocated more than 700 million yuan (US$97 million) since 1980 to maintain 1,400 monasteries and cultural relics.
That's a hefty amount even for the world's fourth largest economy.
Tibet now has more than 1,700 religious sites for Tibetan Buddhism that accommodate 460,000 monks and nuns, four mosques with 3,000 muslims, and a Tibetan Catholic Church for 700 believers.
Latest figures say 100 percent of farmers and herders, who account for more than 80 percent of the Tibetan population, get free medical care.
Remember the migrant would-be father who refused to sign off a Beijing hospital's request for a Caesarean section last year, and lost his wife and baby? It was all because he had no money!
When they cried out 'it's all lies,' I really wondered who was lying?
The monks, who claimed to be eyewitnesses to the alleged 'killing of more than 100 Tibetans and arrests of more than 1,000,' also complained of having been confined at the temple from March 10 to March 26, while the riots took place on and after March 14.
None of the foreign reporters on the scene seemed to have noticed the contradiction - that if confined they couldn't have witnessed what they claimed he had.
The US ,Britain, and all Western nation should give the Tibetans ASYLUM. We should all help out and take in all of the tibetans. America is made up of immigrants and should be the 1st to take most of them. The Dala is a great person and his people. All of the Western nation will should become a buddist country. It is a peaceful religion. Buddist for the Western country. Then the US and Britian can return from Iraq. Peace to All.
REMEMBER ASYLUM ASYLUM ASYLUM FOR THE TIBETANS...
I am all for increasing immigration from China, including a focus on Tibetans. And let us add Iraqis to this focused immigration plan.
I just ask that all of it be done legally based upon our immigration laws.
This is one way we can help those Tibetans/Chinese/Indians and other Asians and Iraqis that is accepted by all nations involved and does not impose on anyone.
How Chinese Government take care of Tibetan well in Tibet
1 Those 460000 monks in Tibet take salary from government, and have got ranks just like officals, their rank can be high as governor.
2 All Tibetan enjoy total free medical treatment, but our Han people have to pay.
3 The required score of university entrance exam of Tibetan is just around one half of Han people.
4 Tibetan always got more chance of promotion, they have privilege just like other minority.
5 Chinese government give RMB 2 billion to Tibetan each year, and every province support Tibet with money , goods, and people there.
6 Government built railway to Tibet by the cost of many death of Han workers because it's too difficult building railway on the rough land there.
7 Per the China law of people and family planning, each Han family only can have one child, but Tibetan family can have more.
Countless....
Dalai said that he never wants to separate Tibet from China, but let¡¯s see what he did, and what trouble he has brought to our country.
Dalai was, is and will be just a political monk. He and other previous Tibetan nobles, monks owned all slaves, rights, and ¡but later on they lost them to slaves.
Too sad, history cannot forever and ever give those political monks any chance.
All Chinese People fully understand and support the policies of our govenment there, we should take care of Tibetan and their feelings.
Tim Dunn has the right idea.
The Chinese Imperialists would never give up their empire... why should they, if they can lord it over another people. Slave masters have a great time owning slaves to obey their every command.
This Chamberlain approach of 'touchy-feely' 'don't upset the Chinese overlords' is pointless. It didn't work against Hitler, it won't won't work against the communist slave owners.
Way to go, Tim Dunn. Boycott these hypocritical olympics. The Olympic charter calls for respect for human rights, the Chinese trample all over human rights. Where & when did the world lose its courage?
I am just amazed that HH think like a western real politician in the rank of Bismarck. This is probably why that the CN Gov is having a hard time negotiate. If you apply a good cop bad cop strategy to China, the CCP simply would not back down. Seriously, HH must negotiate at a rational level and give up the claim about greater Tibet. Also, HH must stop advocating the very racist strategy of removing non-tibetan territory from Tibet.
It seems that bias have been difficult to be removed from the mind of some people who really have their political or personal purpose.
Western media have produced many fause news about Tibet and Tibetan incidents, that's why Chinese people set up websites of antai-CNN, anti-BBC, CNN and BBC have lost their reputation here, no Chinese believe them anymore.
This world has been every open and mutual, for instance, no one can have chance to provoke American and Chinese to boycott the products each other, otherwise Chinese will have no chance to buy commerical planes, American cars, and American don't have chance to buy any of electirc products...
Great countries of China, US, England and so on are just great, any people don't have any chance to get them down whatever they want.
no one wants the war or cold war.
Olympic is not just belonged to China, it's belonged to the world, to the all athletes, to all countries, pls don't mess politics, sports, war, religion up, it's beyond the ability of anyone.
I like Socialism especially with Chinese characteristics. American pigs should try...maybe American economy would do better, NO?
dali Lama and Dali lama again:
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.
I support free and open discussion of the issues, but you are just being stupid. If there is nothing more that you can add to the discussion then please stop.
Dear Jack:
How can you say that CNN or the BBC have lost their believeability in China when the Chinese Gov. has deliberatly altered news and blocked websites that go against their beleifs. They are stuck in a cold war mentality and need to get out of it before we do have another cold war.
(that would be a bad thing)
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Daliar HamaApr 3rd, 2008 - 11:33:59
lol. Nobody loves him anymore ?
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