If there is anything good to be found in the Chinese government’s murderous crackdown on the pro-independence demonstrations spreading like wildfire across Tibet, it is that the Tibetan people are now more unified than ever in their common identity and common demand for freedom and independence.
Throughout history, foreign occupation or colonialism has strengthened a subjugated nation’s […]
Anne Applebaum of the Washington Post has a brilliant article in Slate. It is a must-read that explains how what’s happening in Tibet could lead to doom for the modern Chinese empire:
LIVE FROM LHASA: Shaky cell-phone videos from Tibet foretell doom for the Chinese empire
By Anne Applebaum
Cell-phone photographs and videos from Tibet, blurry and amateur, are […]
CNN just posted two important videos.
The first shows Chinese tanks rolling through Lhasa, and a statement by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. It also has a CNN’s reporter suggesting that the bloodshed in Tibet is the biggest crisis to face the Chinese government since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre that almost led to the overthrow […]
There’s no other way to describe it: the Chinese government has clearly freaked out at the Tibet-wide uprising on its hands. This issue threatens to derail Olympic plans, years of careful propaganda about Tibet being “part of China,” and even overshadowed Hu Jintao’s rubber-stamp re-election as president of China. How embarassing to be so helpless […]
Pro-independence demonstrations continue to spread across the whole of Tibet, not just in Lhasa or what the Chinese government calls the “Tibetan Autonomous Region.” Chinese authorities must be freaking out that the whole of Tibet is ablaze with resistance. This is an irrefutable sign of how widespread is the Tibetan desire for freedom and independence.
According to […]
Radio Free Asia just posted these eyewitness reports from across Tibet:
Tibetans Report More Deaths, Spreading Protests As China Clamps Down
2008.03.15
Numerous sources interviewed by RFA’s Tibetan service have reported that anti-Chinese protests have spread further from the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, into the Amdo and Kham regions in Qinghai and Sichuan provinces, respectively. Witnesses notably reported a […]
Imagine for a moment that the carnage and chaos we are seeing in Tibet occurred in another country.
Wouldn’t there be frantic calls for a UN fact finding mission, especially when the numbers and causes of deaths remain disputed? Even a regime as isolated and odious as Burma accepted a UN mission.
So it is completely […]
Chinese authorities in Tibet have resorted to trying to use threats, issue ultimatums, and bribe informants to regain control. This is a completely typical reaction: subterfuge, intimidation, and false promises of leniency to lure people to turn themselves in.
The Washington Post reports on the crackdown in the monasteries and nunneries:
Official statements suggested the government […]
Senator Barack Obama is the first U.S. presidential candidate to issue a statement on China’s crackdown in Tibet (issued March 14):
I am deeply disturbed by reports of a crackdown and arrests ordered by Chinese authorities in the wake of peaceful protests by Tibetan Buddhist monks. I condemn the use of violence to put down peaceful […]
Jim Yardley of the New York Times narrates a short video about “worldwide Tibetan protests.” Click here to watch.
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