TIBET

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"Religion is the last subject that the intellect begins to understand," the late Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and philosopher Will Durant said.

The power of religion and belief was often used to further the political ambitions of kings and emperors. Even in modern times, religious shrines and the faith of the faithful can still be used by those with ulterior motives.

Sometimes by cliques that attempt to split a country.

There could be only one real purpose for the bloody riot in Lhasa: to separate Tibet from China.

Otherwise, why did the rioters kill and attack innocent civilians, set fires and destroy public facilities?

Why did groups of monks start a "March to Tibet" across the border in India, on exactly the same day that 300 aggressive monks from the Drepung Monastery paraded into downtown Lhasa?

Why did similar turmoil occur in other parts of China and why did mobs attack Chinese diplomatic missions overseas?

And on top of everything, why is the man behind the bloodshed playing the good guy and making false claims that the Chinese government, rather than the rioters, was to blame for the violence?

Anyone with the least common sense can see through this: by pleading innocence, he is seeking sympathy from innocent people across the globe and soliciting international support for his independence claim.

The chain of events that took place in Lhasa and elsewhere was apparently organized. The Lhasa mobs, who seem to have been equipped with stones and flammable liquid, were ready to kill, sabotage and trigger public fear.

What happened in Lhasa is not even remotely close to what the Dalai Lama and his clique claim: that the events were "spontaneous" and "peaceful" protests.

When the Dalai Lama clique allegedly tried to defend Tibet fromso-called "cultural genocide" and "religious repression", they were using the same old trick to put their anti-China stance under the camouflage of religion.

"The rioters who wore cassocks were no real monks and what they did is completely against Buddhist codes," said Ngawang Daindzin, a living Buddha.

If the Dalai Lama really wanted to be worthy of his self-proclaimed title of spiritual leader, he should at least have stopped abusing the power of religion.

And if he really loved his homeland and his fellow Tibetans, he shouldn’t have disrupted the peaceful Buddhist holy city with fire and blood and left innocent people groaning in pain.

Even children became victims.

My heart ached when I read that more than 20 knife-wielding mobs set fire to a school in Lhasa after failing to break into the campus on Friday. More than 800 teen-aged students huddled together in fear and felt anguish over their lost classrooms, satchels, books and the danger of losing their lives.

I have no idea how long the painful memory will cling to these children, Tibetans and Hans alike. Not all their lives, I hope.

The Dalai Lama's hypocrisy has put the power of his religion at stake, but he cannot cheat all the people all the time. Buddhism is no harbor for separatism.

All in all, it's China's Tibet, now and forever.
Editor: An Lu

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admin said:

"Religion is the last subject that the intellect begins to understand," the late Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and philosopher Will Durant said.

The power of religion and belief was often used to further the political ambitions of kings and emperors. Even in modern times, religious shrines and the faith of the faithful can still be used by those with ulterior motives.

Sometimes by cliques that attempt to split a country.

There could be only one real purpose for the bloody riot in Lhasa: to separate Tibet from China.

Otherwise, why did the rioters kill and attack innocent civilians, set fires and destroy public facilities?

Why did groups of monks start a "March to Tibet" across the border in India, on exactly the same day that 300 aggressive monks from the Drepung Monastery paraded into downtown Lhasa?

Why did similar turmoil occur in other parts of China and why did mobs attack Chinese diplomatic missions overseas?

And on top of everything, why is the man behind the bloodshed playing the good guy and making false claims that the Chinese government, rather than the rioters, was to blame for the violence?

Anyone with the least common sense can see through this: by pleading innocence, he is seeking sympathy from innocent people across the globe and soliciting international support for his independence claim.

The chain of events that took place in Lhasa and elsewhere was apparently organized. The Lhasa mobs, who seem to have been equipped with stones and flammable liquid, were ready to kill, sabotage and trigger public fear.

What happened in Lhasa is not even remotely close to what the Dalai Lama and his clique claim: that the events were "spontaneous" and "peaceful" protests.

When the Dalai Lama clique allegedly tried to defend Tibet fromso-called "cultural genocide" and "religious repression", they were using the same old trick to put their anti-China stance under the camouflage of religion.

"The rioters who wore cassocks were no real monks and what they did is completely against Buddhist codes," said Ngawang Daindzin, a living Buddha.

If the Dalai Lama really wanted to be worthy of his self-proclaimed title of spiritual leader, he should at least have stopped abusing the power of religion.

And if he really loved his homeland and his fellow Tibetans, he shouldn’t have disrupted the peaceful Buddhist holy city with fire and blood and left innocent people groaning in pain.

Even children became victims.

My heart ached when I read that more than 20 knife-wielding mobs set fire to a school in Lhasa after failing to break into the campus on Friday. More than 800 teen-aged students huddled together in fear and felt anguish over their lost classrooms, satchels, books and the danger of losing their lives.

I have no idea how long the painful memory will cling to these children, Tibetans and Hans alike. Not all their lives, I hope.

The Dalai Lama's hypocrisy has put the power of his religion at stake, but he cannot cheat all the people all the time. Buddhism is no harbor for separatism.

All in all, it's China's Tibet, now and forever.
Editor: An Lu

Countries around the world have expressed their support to the Chinese government on its handling of the recent riots in Lhasa, capital city of China's Tibet Autonomous Region.

A spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday strongly denounced the unsavory elements of their moves to seek "the independence of Tibet" and scuttle the upcoming Beijing Olympics.

He expressed support to the Chinese government in its efforts to ensure social stability and the rule of law in Tibet and to defend the fundamental interests of the Tibetan people.

A spokesman of Mongolia's Foreign Ministry reiterated that Mongolia adheres to the one-China policy and recognizes Tibet as an inalienable part of China.

The Foreign Ministry of Nepal said in a statement that Tibet is an inseparable part of China and it appreciates the commitment by the Chinese government to peace, stability and progress.

A spokesman of the Bangladeshi Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Thursday, expressing Bangladesh's solidarity with China on the Tibet issue.

All matters pertaining to Tibet are internal affairs of China, the statement said.

Bangladesh wishes the Beijing Olympic Games great success and said it opposes the idea of politicizing the sports event, the spokesman said.

Kazakh Vice Foreign Minister Nurlan Baiuzakovich Yermekbayev told reporters that Tibet is an inseparable part of the Chinese territory, and the measures taken by the Chinese government in efforts to defend Tibet's social stability is entirely China's internal affair.

Adakhan Madumarov, speaker of the Kyrgyzstan's parliament said the violent crimes in Lhasa have caused casualties among innocent people and damage to property.

He said Kyrgyzstan is very concerned about these events. The Tibet issue is an internal affair of China and Kyrgyzstan believes that the Chinese government and people have the capacity to safeguard the social stability in Tibet.

Tajik First Deputy Foreign Minister Abdullo Yuldoshev told Chinese ambassador to Tajikistan that his country strongly condemns the organizers and mobs who sparked the riots in Lhasa, firmly supports the measures by the Chinese government within the law to maintain social stability and strongly opposes the politicization of the Olympics.

Georgian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Grigol Vashadze said his country believes that the riots in Lhasa will not affect the Beijing Olympics and the Georgian side will participate in the event as scheduled.

Syria condemned on Thursday the recent acts of sabotage in Lhasa and expressed solidarity with China in maintaining security and stability in Tibet.

"While Syria strongly condemns these acts and the circles standing behind them, it expresses solidarity with and stands by China in dealing with this situation and in maintaining security and stability in Tibet," the Syrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Syria has followed with great concern the recent acts of sabotage committed by a few rioters in Lhasa, Tibet, which claimed several innocent lives and inflicted heavy damages on private and public property, said the statement.

Syria sees in these destructive acts an attempt to harm the unity of China's people and territorial integrity as well as an attempt to distort the great world festivity that is the Olympic Games and for which the government of China exerted all efforts to make it a success in cooperation with the international community, it added.

Fiji's Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama said his country supports China's dealing with the riots according to the rule of law.

It is necessary for China to take proper measures to safeguard national peace and stability, Bainimarama said in a letter to the Chinese government.

The Tibet issue is China's domestic affair and should be tackled by the China, he added.

Serbia on Thursday reiterated its support in principle to the one-China policy and respect for China's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

"Serbia considers Tibet as China's interior matter and respects the Chinese government's policy toward Tibet as an autonomous region," the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

The Zambian government denounced the ferocity of the rioters in Lhasa, hoping that stability would be restored soon.

Zambia is in favor of all countries loving peace taking part in the Beijing Olympic Games, it said in a statement.

Sierra Leone's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Zainab Hawa Bangura said on Tuesday that her country sees clearly the intention of the Dalai Lama clique to instigate violence in Tibet to promote separatism of the region, and to disturb the Beijing Olympics.

Meeting with the Chinese ambassador to Sierra Leone, Bangura said that her country supports the Chinese government's measures adopted in dealing with the violence, and added that she believes that the Beijing Olympics will be a great success.

A Benin government spokesperson strongly condemned the violence which was planned and instigated by Dalai Lama, saying that Dalai Lama uses these despicable methods to separate China and destroy the Olympic Games to be hosted by Beijing in August.

The spokesperson said that the violence and the criminal acts by the separatists have clearly proved that the slogans "peace" and "non-violence" proclaimed by the Dalai Lama are lies.

Some ambassadors from African countries to China also sent messages to the Chinese Foreign Ministry that the African countries uphold the one-China policy and support Chinese government's efforts in safeguarding national unity and social stability. They are opposed to all actions which try to politicize the Olympic Games.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization issued a statement expressing its support for the necessary measures adopted by the Chinese government in stopping criminal actions and maintaining stability in Tibet.

The statement said Tibet is an inalienable part of China and opposes anybody using violence to meet their political aims. It said that the organization believes that the Chinese government and people are capable of hosting a great Olympics for the world.

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Three Canadian tourists who had been in Lhasa have told of the atrocities committed by Tibetan racist rioters last Friday in Lhasa, Tibet, Canada's newspaper The Toronto Star reported Tuesday.

John Kenwood, 19, from Victoria B.C., said that he witnessed a motorcyclist "being pummelled unconscious by a mob hurling chunks of pavement as big as bricks."

Kenwood said he saw the man drenched in blood after being beaten by "15 men carrying what appeared to be two-meter long, silver poles."

The Canadian youth also said that Lhasa's main street, Beijing Road, was "strewn with garbage and the burnt-out hulks of torched vehicles."

Susan Wetmore, another Canadian tourist who had been stranded in the chaos, said some of what she had seen in Tibet "was pretty ugly... pretty ugly."

The 59-year old consultant said she was so grateful to a Chinese cab driver "who literally risked his life" to get her to Lhasa's Gonggar airport.

Despite the shocks and fears they experienced in Tibet, all the tourists told The Toronto Star that they were taken good care of by the Chinese government and local Tibetan people.

The Toronto Star also carried a story of a Canadian tourist rescuing a young man from the hands of the mob.

The rescuer, Justin Winfield from Toronto, said he saw a crowd of rioters beating a young man and two women.

Winfield said he intervened and the angry mobs stopped their attack, but the man was already unconscious, lying on the ground.

He then lifted the man to his feet, and helped him stumble toward a hospital. He took along the two young women, one of whom had lost several teeth.

At the hospital, Winfield said, he saw half a dozen victims with cuts and bruises from beatings.

On the way back to his hotel, he saw at least 15 stores burned or damaged. "They torched the roof of the store across from us. It's just a few gutted walls," he said.

On March 14, riots involving beating, smashing, looting and burning broke peace in Lhasa.

Rioters set fires at more than 300 locations, including residences and 214 shops, smashed and burned 56 vehicles, and attacked schools, banks, hospitals, shops, government offices, utilities and state media offices.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Tuesday that the Lhasa riot was organized, premeditated, masterminded and incited by the Dalai Lama clique, which exposed once again the separatist nature of the Dalai Lama clique and the hypocritical and fraudulent nature of its so-called "peace" and "non-violence" claims.

Source: Xinhua

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China aspires to become a respected world power, and the Beijing Olympics is an event many see it as one way for China to stake its claim of global status. We have high hopes for China to win many medals in the Olympics.

Unfortunately, evil powers in the world attempt to use the Beijing Olympics to attack China. First we see Washington beefing up its expeditionary imperialistic forces in the Far East to more tightly surround or contain China. Now we see the Dalai Lama (oh, the ordained recipient of Nobel "peace prize") instigating riot and violence in Lahsa against ethnic Han Chinese. We'll see how tension will rise to a breaking point in the Taiwan Strait this week following the Taiwan province elections.

Just like history in the past, China will survive all of the challenges and will clean up the violent terrorists in Tibet and elsewhere. Chinese society will benefit from the stability and peace that will ensue when the terrorists are caught and contained.

The Beijing Olympics will go on, and the Taiwan Strait will be peaceful. When China is ready, China will move in a major way and achieve its objectives. No power on earth can stop China when she is ready to move across the Taiwan Strai

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admin said:

sEEN


China aspires to become a respected world power, and the Beijing Olympics is an event many see it as one way for China to stake its claim of global status. We have high hopes for China to win many medals in the Olympics.

Unfortunately, evil powers in the world attempt to use the Beijing Olympics to attack China. First we see Washington beefing up its expeditionary imperialistic forces in the Far East to more tightly surround or contain China. Now we see the Dalai Lama (oh, the ordained recipient of Nobel "peace prize") instigating riot and violence in Lahsa against ethnic Han Chinese. We'll see how tension will rise to a breaking point in the Taiwan Strait this week following the Taiwan province elections.

Just like history in the past, China will survive all of the challenges and will clean up the violent terrorists in Tibet and elsewhere. Chinese society will benefit from the stability and peace that will ensue when the terrorists are caught and contained.

The Beijing Olympics will go on, and the Taiwan Strait will be peaceful. When China is ready, China will move in a major way and achieve its objectives. No power on earth can stop China when she is ready to move across the Taiwan Strai

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China asks Dalai Lama to use his influence' to stop Tibet violence

Beijing (PTI): Facing mounting international flak for the crackdown on Lhasa, China on Monday gave first signs of softening its stand by asking the Dalai Lama to use his "influence" to stop violence in Tibet and said the "channels" for dialogue with him are "always open."

"The channels for dialogue between the Chinese government and Dalai Lama are always open," Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said during a visit to Laos, as the Olympic flame arrived here today under tight security arrangements to thwart Tibetan protests.

"As long as Dalai Lama abandons the claim for 'Tibet independence,' especially uses his influence to stop the violence in Tibet, and recognise both Tibet and Taiwan as inseparable parts of China, the Chinese government is to continue resuming dialogues with him," Wen was quoted as saying by the state-run Xinhua news agency.

Wen's comments is seen as an apparent softening of China's stand on the 72-year-old exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. The Chinese premier's statement also comes after the US and other western powers intensified pressure on Beijing to talk to the Dalai Lama on the vexed Tibet issue.

US President George W Bush last week, during a telephonic talk with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, pushed very hard on the need for restraint, the need for consultation with representatives of the Dalai Lama.

China has accused the Dalai Lama of "masterminding" the violent protests ahead of the Olympics, slated to begin on August 8, to focus world's attention on Tibet.

Meanwhile, Chinese police rounded up new suspects in connection with the most vicious pro-independence protests in two decades in Tibet, taking the number of those arrested to 414, media reports said on Monday.

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The facts show the Dalai Lama and his backers have been ruining Tibet in the name of religion and human rights, an article in yesterday's Guangming Daily newspaper claimed.

Its Tibetan author, Basang Wangdui, is a researcher with the Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences.

The Dalai Lama and his supporters, representatives of the feudal serf owners of old Tibet, have never done anything good for the Tibetan people in the past 50 years, he said.

In the late 1950s, the group attempted to split Tibet from the motherland with an armed rebellion, and after being foiled and fleeing abroad, perpetuated a decade-long military conflict in border areas, he said.

Tibetan farmers receive books and CDs in their native language on agricultural technology from a local agricultural official on Wednesday. Xinhua

In the 70s, the group fabricated and spread rumors via Western broadcasts to instigate ethnic conflicts and violent confrontations, and instigated riots in Lhasa in the late 80s, Basang Wangdui claimed.

In the past few years, the Dalai Lama has promised again and again to renounce "Tibetan independence", but has never kept his word, he said.

The March 14 riots in Lhasa again exposed the Dalai Lama's hypocrisy in claiming peace and nonviolence, he said.

The criminal activities were against China's laws. No country that is committed to the rule of law would allow such behavior, Basang Wangdui said.

Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, Tibet has moved away from the poverty and backwardness of the old times, he said.

While the Dalai Lama regards himself the "spokesman of the Tibetan people" and "guardian of human rights", he forgets how he trampled on the human rights of Tibetan people when he was a serf owner, he said.

Secessionists often told the international community that China killed 1.2 million Tibetans, but in the 50s, the total population was just 1.14 million, he said.

"If we follow the clique's logic, there would be no people living in Tibet today. So why does the region have a population of 2.8 million, of whom 95 percent are Tibetans and other minority ethnic groups?"

People should have a better understanding of Tibet's history, and not be duped by the Dalai Lama, he said.


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Listen to what Tibetan people have to say
Lhasa has long retuned to normal after the government quelled according to law the unrest stirred up by a group of thugs, who smashed, stoned, looted and committed arson on March 14. The people of all ethnicities in the Tibet autonomous region have thus come to recognize from their personal experiences that the defense of social harmony and stability is a vital prerequisite for spurring the reform and development as well as a common aspiration and fundamental interests of all ethnic groups in the region.

Without a prerequisite of stability, nothing can be accomplished and an abundance of achievements could be lost. Xiangba, a Tibetan native and a neighborhood committee chairman in the Chengguan town of Qamdo (or Chambdu) county acknowledged that "of all things under heaven, harmony and stability is most crucial."

Without stability, there would be no a better-off Tibet, or a Tibet in peace and harmony to speak of. Longzhu, a retired medical worker from the Tibetan Regional People's Hospital in Lhasa, said, "I have been quite happy and contented in my life of retirement. In those days, however, law-breakers filled us with constant fear, and kids were afraid to return home after school. By sabotaging harmony and stability in Tibet, the Dalai clique simply does not want to let us live a carefree and comfortable life."

The attempt of a handful of rioters for undermining the regional harmony and stability goes against the desire of local people, officials and Buddhists in Tibet. Yuxi Norzhui, a local Lhasa resident, said that he felt indignant and tormented at the sight of burned-down, dilapidated houses, innocent people under an intense medical care in hospitals and wounded police constables for the sake of protecting people.

Living Buddha Tsongkang Norzui had this to say: "The riot has filled him with much anger and grief, and those Buddhist rioters involved in the violence breach not only the national laws and decrees but the tenets and codes of (Tibetan) Buddhism." There is absolutely no way out for those plotting for "Tibet Independence," he warned, and the unrest, involving beating, smashing, ransacking and arson, is totally unacceptable.

Harmony and stability poses a popular will, a common aspiration of the people, and a general trend not to be altered. The nation requires stability, the society requires stability and the people, too, require stability. This represents a unanimous consensus reached by the people of all ethnicities across China from their prolonged, great practice throughout the history of development, particularly since the launch of their reform and opening to the world three decades ago, and therefore, it constitutes an invaluable experience.

Of all things in the world, their construction is much harder and more strenuous than their destruction. The harmony and stability of the Chinese nation represents an outcome of longstanding, arduous efforts of the people of all ethnicities in China, including Tibetans, which does not easily come by.

The violence in Lhasa and some other ethnic Tibetan areas has once again proven that it is possible that the sabotage of harmony and stability in a region or a partial area would negatively affect the harmony and stability nationwide. Since the harmony and stability is hard earned, we should treasure them with a redoubled care.

Moreover, the unrest in Tibet, involving beating, smashing, ransacking and arson, has once again sharpened our vigilance and alerted ourselves. So we have been aware that it poses a long-term task to safeguard the social harmony and stability, which demands the conscious, unremitting efforts of the entire Chinese people.

By People's Daily Online

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Lhasa protests are planned violence, says Indian professor
Recent protests in Tibet were brilliantly timed to draw the international attention given that few months are left till the commencement of Beijing Olympics on 8th August, 2008, according to an article on the website of the Russian Strategic Culture Foundation.

The article, entitled "Tibet in Turmoil", has been contributed by Arun Mohanty (India), a noted professor at the Russia and Asia Issue Study Center affiliated to elite Nehru University in India.

Thus the protests in Tibet were not all together unexpected. However, what is surprising is that the planned nature and the scale of violence that erupted in Tibetan capital Lhasa. The truth is that the riot that broke out in Lhasa on March 14 and involved violent mobs including militant monks from the Drepung monastery, who marched in tandem with a foiled march to Tibet by groups of monks across the border in India.

The violent rioters committed murder, arson and other acts of vandalism against innocent civilians and caused enormous damage to public and private property. The protest, which seemed so well-orchestrated and coordinated, erupted simultaneously in the neighboring Tibetan dominated regions of Gansu, Sichuan and Qinghai.

This is not the first time that an attempt is being made to sabotage the Olympics, the article recalls. The boycott of Moscow Olympics held in 1980 by many Western countries at the height of cold war is a case in point.

A conference organized in New Delhi in June last year by self-proclaimed group "Friends of Tibet" emphasized on using the forthcoming Olympics to highlight the issue of "free Tibet" globally. The participants stressing that Beijing Olympics is a golden chance for Tibetans to come out to the streets, gave a call for worldwide protests and organize a march of Tibetan exiles in India and Nepal to Lhasa that would coincide with the opening of Olympic Games in the Chinese capital.

According to Indian media reports, notes the article, some groups close to the Dalai Lama had started giving calls in January this year to organize an uprising inside Tibet and the Tibetan exile groups had announced the creation of a "Tibetan People's Uprising Movement" on January 25.

Meanwhile, press reports also suggest that US ambassador to India, David Mulford, was at a meeting with the Dalai Lama at the time when the call for new uprising was given. US Under-secretary of State Paula Dobryansky, known for her role in colored revolutions in the former Soviet space, was in Dharamsala to meet with the Dalai Lama last November. Lot has been reported about US congress speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent meeting the Dalai Lama at Dharamsala after the riots began in Lhasa.

It is a "life or death struggle" to defend China's stability and territorial sovereignty, the article underlines. Tibet came under Chinese sovereignty long back in history, but Tibetan rulers used to declare independence whenever the power of the Central Government waned. Tibet came under forced British rule in 1907. A weak China then, nevertheless, was not in a position to act against British colonial occupation. Afterwards, the Kuomintang government of Chiang Kai-shek kept on protesting against British occupation of Tibet but to no effect.

While Dalai Lama has been pleading for "genuine autonomy", adds the article, some sections of Tibetans, particularly Tibetan non-governmental organizations (NGO) funded by foreign sources, continue to advocate for complete independence for Tibet. These NGOs have a history or resorting to violence to achieve their goal.

Moreover, the article goes on, China has witnessed unprecedented economic growth during the last three decades with its economy growing at an average annual growth of 10 percent. Tibet has seen an annual growth rate of more than 12 percent over the past six years and has entered a growth trajectory of 13 percent to 14 percent, the article says.

By People's Daily Online

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The Tibetan Autonomous Region of China
has a population of approximately
2.8 million, of which over 80 percent
are farmers and herdsmen.

The central government has always considered it the country's top priority to improve the living conditions and increase the incomes of Tibetan farmers and herdsmen. Today, the "rooftop of the world" has seen fundamental changes; and Tibetans' lives have been much improved in regards to
clothing, education,hospitals, food,
housing and transportation.

In the 2008 budget, the government enhanced the financing in countryside construction and development in Tibet. The entire year's budget to aid farmers and the countryside is expected to reach 2.07 billion yuan, an increase of 318 million yuan, or up 29.5 percent, over last year.
Slavery and Fudelism have been abolished
new radio and Television stations are broadcasting
in both Tibetan and Chinese Languages
and English and the separation of church
and state is being enforced.

Tibetans are welcome to voice
an interest and participate in their
local community by joining the communist
party and millions of yuan have been
spent in preserving Tibetan culture.
Affordable Local transport has been
introduced with bus and rail transport
and Tibetans are now linked
to China and the rest of the world
by the building of a rail link linking
nearby Autonomous Regions of
the Peoples Repiblic.

As far as housing is concerned, previously most Tibetans dwelled in private shelters, and herdsmen lived in tents. But now nearly all farmers in areas like Xigaze Prefecture, and Bainang and Gyangze counties, live in new storied buildings.

Statistics show that 114,000 households, or 586,000 farmers and herdsmen, have moved into newly built housing. In 2008, the Tibetan government will establish efforts to complete its Accommodation Project: a pledge to settle 52,000 households of farmers and herdsmen.

Due to the uneven distribution of water resources in the region and the over proof of arsenic and fluorine in drinking water, Tibet has long been plagued by a severe shortage of safe drinking water. However, since the Countryside Drinking Water Safety Project was launched in 2005, nearly 760,000 farmers and herdsmen have gained access to safe drinking water. Additionally, greenhouse vegetables and fruits are now commonly seen on dinner tables in Tibet.

Meanwhile, in the past five years, Tibet—where major transportation consisted of yaks and donkeys—has built more than 24,000 km of highways; and the number of private vehicles has been increasing by 10 percent year on year. Now the road grid links 219 counties and townships, and 1,490 villages. Postal networks cover 111 townships; and 3,721 villages have been guaranteed telephone communications. Farmers and herdsmen in 650,000 households have access to electricity.

Today, on the "rooftop of the world," home appliances such as TV sets and refrigerators are as common as they are in the developed eastern parts of China.

The central government vows to maintain its preferential financial policies for Tibet in the next five years; ensure telephone coverage for over 90 percent of the region; and greatly enhance the construction of electricity projects in an effort to ensure that every Tibetan household has electric power

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Scenes in which a handful of rioters resort to violence against unarmed locals in Lhasa and some ethnic Tibetan areas since March 14 have stunned people, and filled all those people of a good intention with indignation, with grief over innocent victims, and a sense of gratification over the government's move to settle the incident according to law.

Even when more and more evidences are pooled and the truth behind have further revealed or exposed, the Dalai Lama clique continues to fabricate facts and turn "black into white". The Dalai clique and some Western media have gone so far as to whitewash the riots of mobs as "peaceful protests of people" whereas the actions taken by the Chinese government in accordance with law was claimed to the "ethnic conflicts"

It is very difficult, however. to translate lies into the truth, and it is also impossible to cover up violent crimes,

Shortly after the Lhasa riots erupted on March 14, police seized a lot of offensive weaponry in some Tibetan Buddhist temples or Lamaseries where rioters incited or fanned up violence. Among those weapons seized, there were 178 rifles or guns, 13,013 rounds of bullets, 359 knives or swords, 3,504 kilograms of explosive, 19,360 detonators and two hand-grenades. Even the most kind-hearted people or devout men or women can tell what these weapons have meant and whether the riots in Tibet on March 14 are "peaceful protest" or "violent crimes"?

Please look at the ensuing figures:, 18 innocent civilians were killed, and another 382 locals wounded, 58 seriously in the Lhasa riots on March 14, and thugs set fire at more than 300 sites, impaired 908 malls or booths, seven schools, 120 residences and five hospitals, assaulted and smashed 10 banking outlets, and ruined at least 120-room unit housing structures, and destroyed 84 cars or trucks. Can any country in the world term such violence as "peaceful protests" and any government brush aside such violent actions?

Facts have eloquently proven that the "March 14" violent crimes have not only harmed the Han people and but people of other ethnical minorities. There are three Tibetans victims involved: One Tibetan doctor was beaten black and blue simply for the sake of protecting kids of the Han people, whreas a Han Chinese woman came to the aid of two ethical Tibetan kids, and was beaten up and got crippled. Hence, it is perfectly clear that violent actions are detrimental to people of all ethnicities and, then how can the Dalai clique said they were "ethnic conflicts"?

Acts of rioters have aroused vehement indignation of the people of all ethnicities, and it is the common desire of people across Tibet to bring them to justice. "No organization or individuals are allowed to have the privilege of overstepping the Constitution," according the Constitution of the People Republic of China (PRC), and "all are equal before the law".

These law-breakers or rooters committed murder, looting, arson and other acts of vandalism against innocent civilians in a serious violation of the laws of the PRC and resulted in a gravely disruption to the normal social order of Tibet and, for this, no civilian society can give in or tolerate, and no responsible government can sit idle by.

Laws are a precondition for order, the foundation of civilizations and a guarantee of people's happy life. If the violation of law is indulged and violent crimes are forgiven, it would mean to profane laws, impair the civilization and, still more, to encroach upon the sacred rights of all ethnical people. The endeavor to cope with violent crimes in line with law constitutes the basic norms generally accepted by the contemporary international community, a baseline held by a civilized society and an essential requirement of a country under the rule of law for safeguarding the dignity of its laws.

It has been the consistent acts for the Dalai clique to take no heed of laws and look to schemes for succession with the use of violence. When such moves draw global denunciation, the Dalai clique began to adjust their strategy and change tactics accordingly. They bent every effort for a "Middle Way" solution, shifting from a political worry to a cultural worry to confuse right and wrong and deceive the general public.

In the current world with a highly-developed information industry, and before the history and facts, however, the Dalai clique is simply "lifting a rock only to drop on their own feet" with an attempt to conceal "violence" with the so-called "peace", play with words to hide their "true colors" or essence for succession move, and even to achieve their "Tibet independence" plot by sowing discords among people of various ethnicities. Such an attempt is predestined to be brought to justice and to be contemned by the people and the history alike.

By People's Daily Online and its author is He Zhenhua

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admin said:

The Tibetan Autonomous Region of China
has a population of approximately
2.8 million, of which over 80 percent
are farmers and herdsmen.

The central government has always considered it the country's top priority to improve the living conditions and increase the incomes of Tibetan farmers and herdsmen. Today, the "rooftop of the world" has seen fundamental changes; and Tibetans' lives have been much improved in regards to
clothing, education,hospitals, food,
housing and transportation.

In the 2008 budget, the government enhanced the financing in countryside construction and development in Tibet. The entire year's budget to aid farmers and the countryside is expected to reach 2.07 billion yuan, an increase of 318 million yuan, or up 29.5 percent, over last year.
Slavery and Fudelism have been abolished
new radio and Television stations are broadcasting
in both Tibetan and Chinese Languages
and English and the separation of church
and state is being enforced.

Tibetans are welcome to voice
an interest and participate in their
local community by joining the communist
party and millions of yuan have been
spent in preserving Tibetan culture.
Affordable Local transport has been
introduced with bus and rail transport
and Tibetans are now linked
to China and the rest of the world
by the building of a rail link linking
nearby Autonomous Regions of
the Peoples Repiblic.

As far as housing is concerned, previously most Tibetans dwelled in private shelters, and herdsmen lived in tents. But now nearly all farmers in areas like Xigaze Prefecture, and Bainang and Gyangze counties, live in new storied buildings.

Statistics show that 114,000 households, or 586,000 farmers and herdsmen, have moved into newly built housing. In 2008, the Tibetan government will establish efforts to complete its Accommodation Project: a pledge to settle 52,000 households of farmers and herdsmen.

Due to the uneven distribution of water resources in the region and the over proof of arsenic and fluorine in drinking water, Tibet has long been plagued by a severe shortage of safe drinking water. However, since the Countryside Drinking Water Safety Project was launched in 2005, nearly 760,000 farmers and herdsmen have gained access to safe drinking water. Additionally, greenhouse vegetables and fruits are now commonly seen on dinner tables in Tibet.

Meanwhile, in the past five years, Tibet—where major transportation consisted of yaks and donkeys—has built more than 24,000 km of highways; and the number of private vehicles has been increasing by 10 percent year on year. Now the road grid links 219 counties and townships, and 1,490 villages. Postal networks cover 111 townships; and 3,721 villages have been guaranteed telephone communications. Farmers and herdsmen in 650,000 households have access to electricity.

Today, on the "rooftop of the world," home appliances such as TV sets and refrigerators are as common as they are in the developed eastern parts of China.

The central government vows to maintain its preferential financial policies for Tibet in the next five years; ensure telephone coverage for over 90 percent of the region; and greatly enhance the construction of electricity projects in an effort to ensure that every Tibetan household has electric power

Yeah, the journey of the Olympic torch, while it does add some
entertainment to TV, is somewhat absurd re the protesters, many of whom
probably haven't a clue as to what occurs, or doesn't occur, in Tibet.
Like the boycott of the Moscow Games, some excuse for making a fuss can
always be found - with retribution by the victim in subsequent Games, as the
Soviets did re Los Angeles.
China is a one-party state, and this has a tendency to authoritarianism
and oppression. But, as you demonstrate, it is not all bad.
Meanwhile, the ancient witchdoctors of religion, yes, even Buddhist
monks, stir up trouble, in endeavour to restore their hierarchical dominance
over their former disciples and population. It is one hegemony versus
another. Which, then, is more modern, and preferable?
The West, while deploring any oligarchy, especially if Communist, is
theoretically democratic, but actually plutocratic - the rule of entrenched
wealth. Which is why the current Presidential elections in USA is unlikely
to really change anything, whoever wins.
China, while struggling to contain the problems caused by protesters re
the torch relay, has one weapon it can use, if ultimately needed - it can
cancel the Games, on grounds of national security. Or, it can hold them,
but limited to internal competition (as occurred in Ancient Greece).
Retreat, by the Middle Kingdom, into isolation, is possible, locking out the
Barbarians. If the USA can have a policy of Isolationism, then so can
others.
But the Games will probably go ahead, though who wins the battle for
propaganda supremacy is not automatically on the side of the protesters. donh

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Cobber wrote:
> What a lot of crap - how long have u been in the employ of the Chinese govt?
> Take your official communist propaganda elsewhere! The facts are that after
> the brutal MILITARY INVASION of Tibet in about 1950, the small Tibetan army
> was defeated and the Chinese IMPOSED a treaty on the Tibetan Government
> which declared Tibet to be a part of China! China claims this treaty was
> entered into entirely voluntarily by the Tibetan Government (sure thing),
> and that the Dalai Lama, his Government and the Tibetan people as a whole
> welcomed it!!!! It's complete bullshit - the facts show a very different
> story.

It's called 'internal colonisalism'
And there is no way that China will ever give up Tibet. It's strategic
value is too great. It would be akin to the USA giving up Alaska to the
Russians.

Soon we might have protests about the Javanese colonisations of Sumatra,
Borneo, Papua and the like.

With the amount of investment in Tibet and that great railway line
constructed, plenty of Westerners will visit the place.
And the greater gene pool generally wins. Tough luck if you are an
endangered species. Nature at work?

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Rudd repeats Tibet human rights concerns



Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has repeated his belief that there are significant human rights problems in Tibet, in a speech delivered to university students in Beijing at the start of a four-day trip to China.

Mr Rudd flew into China this morning in the midst of a diplomatic row, after the Chinese Government lodged verbal complaints to Australian diplomats in Canberra and in Beijing.

China is angry over Mr Rudd's comments during a press conference with US President George W Bush earlier in his world tour, when he said it was clear that human rights abuses were being committed in Tibet.

He encouraged the Chinese Government to discuss the future of Tibet with the Dalai Lama, and promised to raise the matter in Beijing.

In his speech at the university, Mr Rudd repeated his view that Australia is concerned about the situation in Tibet.

"Australia, like most other countries, recognises China's sovereignty over Tibet, but we also believe it is necessary to recognise there are significant human rights problems in Tibet," Mr Rudd told the Beijing University students.

"The current situation in Tibet is of concern to Australians. We recognise the need for all parties to avoid silence and find a solution through dialogue."

However Mr Rudd repeated his position that there should be no boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games, as some groups and international leaders have suggested, to punish China over its crackdown on the past month of Tibetan unrest.

"I believe the Olympics are important for China's continuing engagement with the world," he said in a speech delivered in Mandarin.

Tibetan exiled leaders say more than 150 people have been killed in the Chinese crackdown on the protests. China says it has killed no-one, and blamed Tibetan "rioters" for the deaths of 20 people.

Earlier, a Foreign Affairs Department spokesman said Mr Rudd would not back down from his position on Tibet.

"We can confirm that Australian and Chinese officials have discussed the comments and our differences over Tibet, both in Beijing and Canberra," the spokesman said.

Mr Rudd is due to meet Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao tomorrow.

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China Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu on Tuesday introduced policies adopted by the central government on Tibet, saying the autonomous region's development was "better than ever".

The central government practices a regional ethnic autonomy system in Tibet, and guarantees the democratic rights of Tibetans. As an ethnic minority, Tibetans also enjoy preferential treatment in laws and policies, Jiang told a regular press conference.

She said the government also exercised a preferential policy of mobilizing the whole nation to help the development of Tibet. The central and local governments and institutions at all levels have given great financial, material and personnel support to Tibet.

The gross local production maintains a consecutive growth rate of over 12 percent for many years with the per capita GNP amounting to 12,000 yuan (1,714 U.S. dollars), higher than the average national level, Jiang said.

The central government has not collected tax from Tibet for years, yet each year it invested billions of yuan in the construction and development of Tibet.

With regard to the religious freedom enjoyed by Tibetans, Jiang said freedom of religious belief is respected by the government and protected under the law. All regular religious activities are practiced in a normal way.

Moreover, the central government attaches great importance to preserving and growing the Tibetan culture.

Tibetan Buddhism has been well protected in China, said Jiang. The central government has invested huge funds in the preservation and maintenance of monasteries and religious sites, including the Potala Palace and other temples. It had also set up more than 50 institutes on Tibetan studies nationwide.

The central government had also made efforts on the collection and publication of Tibetan Buddhism classics, including the Tibetan Tripitaka.

Concerning the Tibetan language, Jiang said both Tibetan and Chinese were taught and used in Tibet, with the Tibetan language the primary language.

The Tibetan language had become the first language used by an ethnic minority group in China for which an international standard had been set up, she added.

"A lot of facts show the social, economic and cultural development in Tibet is better than ever," Jiang said. "A small number of rioters and saboteurs could never represent the Tibetan people, nor the people all over China."

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The Amnesty International report issued after the unrest in Lhasa and ahead of the Olympics to assail China's human rights record was to "create hurdles for China's peaceful development", human rights experts said here on Tuesday.

Chen Shiqiu, the China Society for Human Rights Studies vice-chairman, said some Western countries "always observe China through tainted glasses, and they are unwilling and uncomfortable to see the country's rapid development".

Speaking at a seminar, Chen said the report echoed the Dalai Clique and Tibetan separatists outside China so as to sabotage the Olympics.

"They always oppose China so they don't want the country to successfully host the Games." He added the report was to slander and attack China under the pretense of human rights so as to damage the nation's peace and stability as well as ethnic unity and social progress.

The London-based Amnesty International issued a report on March31 that assailed China's human rights record, criticized its handling of the Lhasa unrest and urged the International Olympic Committee and world leaders to pressure the country.

Xiong Lei, director of the China Society for Human Rights Studies, a non-governmental organization, said Amnesty International should learn some basic human rights knowledge.

The report held China "cracked down on Tibetan protestors" but in fact, the so-called protestors were criminals that involved in assaults, vandalism, looting and arson, she said. "They were human rights destroyers instead of human rights fighters."

"Likewise, those separatists have nothing to do with human rights. Any government that protects human rights is entitled to exercising legal sanctions over criminals. That's a real protection of human rights."

Liu Hainian, a research fellow of the Institute of Law under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said Amnesty International claimed human rights on the one hand but turned a blind eye to the violence in Lhasa.

"The double standards they applied would draw antipathy of all the kindhearted," said Liu, adding linking the Olympics to the human rights issue was not in accord with the Olympic spirit of peace and friendliness and would hurt the 1.3-billion Chinese people.

As for China's death penalty issue mentioned by the group in the report, Liu said, the death penalty stipulated in China's law was in line with the United Nations conventions in principle.

In reality, he said countries including the United States, like China, did not abolish capital punishment, and the practice of cautiously exercising death sentences and reducing their number rests with the current situation in China.

According to Liu's studies, since the Supreme People's Court took back the power of reviewing death penalties in 2007, the country's number of capital punishments has dropped, with half of the cases changed to a reprieve in the end.

About 99 percent of the death penalty with a two-year reprieve was ultimately not executed, said Liu.

Yang Chengming, professor of the Beijing Institute of Technology and director of the China Society for Human Rights Studies, said the Amnesty International report, similar with those issued by other foreign rights organizations, had "evident logical errors".

The report claimed that China could improve its human rights record only after imposed pressure, but in fact the choice of respecting and protecting human rights was made by the Chinese themselves and was the principle of the Constitution and the governing concept of the Communist Party, Yang said.

He added that the report, which took the improvement of human rights as a mark of a successful Games, was not in line with the Olympic spirit.

Yang also rebutted the report's accusation that China would implement registration measures over more than 20,000 overseas reporters covering the Games.

"It distorts the fact. Measures about journalists to be adopted in the Beijing Olympics fully comply with the practice set by the International Olympic Committee," he said.

Luo Yanhua, professor of the School of International Studies of Beijing University, said human rights development of any countries was "spontaneous and gradual", but not "imposed by foreign forces or quickly made".

"If some western rights groups really want to help some countries in improving their human rights situation, they should carefully study what they need and offer some practical help," Luo said.

Source: Xinhua

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TIBET

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> Wednesday, April 09 2008 @ 06:31 pm BST
> Just in case anyone is in any doubt about what Tibetan's are having to
> do now in Patriotic Re-education classes here is what is involved.
> All those who refuse will be arrested, in fact whole monasteries have
> been arrested in the last week or so the monks have either been
> tortured or no one knows of their whereabouts.

> During the classes, among other activities, each Tibetan is forced to
> loudly repeat the following statements while being recorded on video:
> 1) I denounce the "Dalai's clique."
> 2) I will not keep any portraits of the Dalai Lama.
> 3) I have no desire to become a part of the "Dalai's clique."
> 4) I will not engage in any "splittist" activities.
> 5) The attempt to separate Nationalities of China will not succeed.
> 6) I owe loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party.
> 7) I will always follow the Chinese Communist Party.
> 8) I acknowledge the gratitude of the Chinese Communist Party.

Mybe we are forgetting, that the Olympic movement and the Tibetan
movement or China's action in Tibet are totally different things,"

This is result of the policy of separating church and state
and I can see why they have problems also with
valun gong etc.

Tibet is not the Vatican any more/

Indian tennis star Leander Paes Wednesday came out in support of the
Olympic torch relay that faced strong protests worldwide from people
opposed to China's crackdown in Tibet, including India's football
captain Bhaichung Bhutia. Paes said the Olympic torch relay and the
Chinese Tibet policy were completely different issues and the two
should not be mixed.

"For many reasons Olympics is important. One thing we are forgetting,
that the Olympic movement and the Tibetan movement or China's action
in Tibet are totally different things," said Paes, who is here for the
Davis Cup tie against Japan, Wednesday.

"Olympics have faced problems before, once after Second World War. I
remember my father wining a bronze at the 1972 Munich Summer Games
that were overshadowed by Israeli-Palestinian problem. Then there was
the boycott of the Moscow Games in 1980. But the Olympics is above all
this," he said.

Paes, who will be making his fifth appearance at the Olympics in
Beijing in August, said the Games have always been "special and close
to his heart."

"It is going to be my fifth appearance in the Olympics, the most by an
Asian. Olympics have been very special to me and has been very close
to my heart," he said.

Asked whether he will run with the torch, Paes said: "I have been
invited to run and you will come to know if I decide to take part in

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You said

Wednesday, April 09 2008 @ 06:31 pm BST
> Just in case anyone is in any doubt about what Tibetan's are having to
> do now in Patriotic Re-education classes here is what is involved.
> All those who refuse will be arrested, in fact whole monasteries have
> been arrested in the last week or so the monks have either been
> tortured or no one knows of their whereabouts.

Is this True?

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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said here Wednesday
he opposed a boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games and suggested building "continuing, profound and sincere friendship" with China.

In his speech delivered in fluent Chinese at the Peking University, Rudd said he disagreed with those who had called for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics, saying the event was "important for China's continuing engagement with the world".

Rudd said Australia wanted to be a true friend with China, "a partner who sees beyond immediate benefit to the broader and firm basis for continuing, profound and sincere friendship".

It was a friendship that offered "unflinching advice and counsels restraint" to engage in principled dialogue about matters
of contention, he said.

Rudd also praised China's economic and social achievement over the past 30 years since the reform and opening up.

"The scale and pace of China's economic development and social transformation is unprecedented in human history" and had a great impact not just on China, but also on the world, said the prime minister.

Rudd highlighted China's development approach of a "harmonious world" and stressed the idea depended on China being a participant in the world order and, along with others, acting in accordance with the rules of that order.

He expressed his hope that China would fully participate in all the institutions of the global rules-based order, including in security, economy, human rights and environment and make active contributions as a responsible global stakeholder.

Rudd stressed in his speech the importance of dealing with climate change, saying China played an increasingly prominent role in this problem.

He also appealed to all nations to work together to overcome environmental challenges.

Australia, like most countries,
recognized China's sovereignty over Tibet, Rudd said.

Rudd arrived in Beijing early on Wednesday,
kicking off his four-day official visit to China
at the invitation of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.

Source: Xinhua

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You wont hear these items on the CIA funded radio free asia

Go to
english.peopledaily.com.cn/

and Read

President Hu: China confident and capable of hosting good Olympic
Games
* "Tibetan Youth Congress" is pure terrorist organization
* TYC, a terrorist organization much catastrophic than bin Laden's
* Calls from netizens to cite TYC as terrorist organization
* Documents present picture of
Tibets brutal past

interesting

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admin said:

"Religion is the last subject that the intellect begins to understand," the late Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and philosopher Will Durant said.

The power of religion and belief was often used to further the political ambitions of kings and emperors. Even in modern times, religious shrines and the faith of the faithful can still be used by those with ulterior motives.

Sometimes by cliques that attempt to split a country.

There could be only one real purpose for the bloody riot in Lhasa: to separate Tibet from China.

Otherwise, why did the rioters kill and attack innocent civilians, set fires and destroy public facilities?

Why did groups of monks start a "March to Tibet" across the border in India, on exactly the same day that 300 aggressive monks from the Drepung Monastery paraded into downtown Lhasa?

Why did similar turmoil occur in other parts of China and why did mobs attack Chinese diplomatic missions overseas?

And on top of everything, why is the man behind the bloodshed playing the good guy and making false claims that the Chinese government, rather than the rioters, was to blame for the violence?

Anyone with the least common sense can see through this: by pleading innocence, he is seeking sympathy from innocent people across the globe and soliciting international support for his independence claim.

The chain of events that took place in Lhasa and elsewhere was apparently organized. The Lhasa mobs, who seem to have been equipped with stones and flammable liquid, were ready to kill, sabotage and trigger public fear.

What happened in Lhasa is not even remotely close to what the Dalai Lama and his clique claim: that the events were "spontaneous" and "peaceful" protests.

When the Dalai Lama clique allegedly tried to defend Tibet fromso-called "cultural genocide" and "religious repression", they were using the same old trick to put their anti-China stance under the camouflage of religion.

"The rioters who wore cassocks were no real monks and what they did is completely against Buddhist codes," said Ngawang Daindzin, a living Buddha.

If the Dalai Lama really wanted to be worthy of his self-proclaimed title of spiritual leader, he should at least have stopped abusing the power of religion.

And if he really loved his homeland and his fellow Tibetans, he shouldn’t have disrupted the peaceful Buddhist holy city with fire and blood and left innocent people groaning in pain.

Even children became victims.

My heart ached when I read that more than 20 knife-wielding mobs set fire to a school in Lhasa after failing to break into the campus on Friday. More than 800 teen-aged students huddled together in fear and felt anguish over their lost classrooms, satchels, books and the danger of losing their lives.

I have no idea how long the painful memory will cling to these children, Tibetans and Hans alike. Not all their lives, I hope.

The Dalai Lama's hypocrisy has put the power of his religion at stake, but he cannot cheat all the people all the time. Buddhism is no harbor for separatism.

All in all, it's China's Tibet, now and forever.
Editor: An Lu

Chinese President Hu Jintao said in Sanya Saturday that the Tibet problem is entirely an internal issue of China, and national unification features the conflict between the central government and the Dalai group.

"Our conflict with the Dalai clique is not an ethnic problem, not a religious problem, nor a human rights problem. It is a problem either to safeguard national unification or to split the motherland," Hu said.

He made the remarks while meeting with visiting Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in Sanya, a scenic city in south China'sHainan Province.

Talking about the violent crimes in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, and some other places, Hu stressed that all these incidents were not "peaceful demonstrations" or "non-violent" actions proclaimed by some people, but sheer violent crimes.

"No responsible government will sit idle for such crimes, which gravely encroach human rights, gravely disrupt social order and gravely jeopardize the life and property security of the masses," said the president.

Hu stressed that the door for dialogue between the central government and the Dalai Lama is open. "The barrier to contacts and talks does not lie on our side, but on the side of the Dalai Lama. If the Dalai Lama has the sincerity, he should put it into action."

"As long as the Dalai side stops activities splitting the motherland, stops activities scheming and instigating violence, and stops activities sabotaging the Beijing Olympic Games, we are ready to continue contacts and talks with him at any time," Hu said.

Rudd stressed that Australia fully recognizes China's sovereignty over Tibet and Taiwan. The one-China policy adopted by Australia remains unchanged.

He added Australia hopes to become a sincere friend of China. The development of long-term, friendly and cooperative ties with China is a long-term strategy of Australia.

Rudd also wished the Beijing Olympic Games a success.

Rudd came to visit China at the invitation of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. Wen held talks with him, and top legislator Wu Bangguomet with him in Beijing.

The Australian prime minister will attend the opening ceremony of the annual meeting of the Boao Forum for Asia on Saturday afternoon in Boao of Hainan Province.

Source:Xinhua

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Why should the americans get to decide? The oplimpic were started in Athens in Greese, its their event and if anyone should stop china from holding the games its them or the UN(who attepmt to represent everone, as apposed to the americans who dont really care).

CIA? the CIA has no right to interfere with the games! it has nothing to do with them. the cia oppress more than anyone in iraq(currently). they have 'secret footage' and secrets which they wont tell their own people.

If your going to ban chine from the olympics then please ban america as well,

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Starting from the point of maintaining the unification of the motherland and national unity, the central government adopted an attitude of patient waiting towards the Dalai Lama after he fled abroad. His position as a vice-chairman of the NPC Standing Committee was preserved until 1964. However, surrounded by foreign anti-China forces and Tibetan separatists, the Dalai Lama completely renounced the patriotic stand which he once expressed and engaged in numerous activities to split the motherland.

-- Publicly advocating that "Tibet is an independent state." In June 1959, the Dalai Lama issued a statement in Mussoorie, India which read "Tibet had actually been independent." In March 1991, during his visit to Britain, the Dalai Lama told the press that Tibet "is the biggest occupied country in the world today." He proclaimed on many occasions that "the task of realizing the independence of Tibet has fallen upon all Tibetans in and outside Tibet."

-- Setting up the "government in exile." In the early 1960s, the Dalai clique convened the "people's congress of Tibet" in Dharamsala, India, which established the so-called "Tibetan government in exile." A so-called "constitution" was promulgated, which states that "the Dalai Lama is the head of state," "the ministers shall be appointed by the Dalai Lama" and "all work of the government shall not be approved without the consent of the Dalai Lama." The 1991 revised "constitution" of the Dalai clique still stipulates that the Dalai is "the head of the state." The Dalai Lama and his so-called "government in exile" kept levying an "independence tax" on Tibetans residing abroad, established "offices" in some countries, published magazines and books advocating "Tibetan independence" and engaged in political activities for "Tibetan independence."

-- Reorganizing the armed rebel forces. In September 1960, the Dalai clique re-organized the "religion guards of the four rivers and six ranges" in Mustang, Nepal, which carried on military harassment activities along the Chinese border for ten years. Its first commander-in-chief Anzhugcang Goinbo Zhaxi wrote in his memoirs Four Rivers and Six Ranges that "a series of attacks were organized on Chinese outposts" and "sometimes, 100 or 200 Tibetan guerrillas went as far as 100 miles into the area occupied by the Chinese." The Dalai Lama wrote articles praising Goinbo Zhaxi.

-- Spreading rumors and calumnies and plotting riots. Ignoring facts, the Dalai Lama fabricated numerous lies to sow dissension among the various nationalities and incite the Tibetan people to oppose the central government during his 30-year self-exile abroad. He said that "the 17-Article Agreement was imposed on Tibet under armed force"; "the Hans have massacred 1.2 million Tibetans"; "owing to Han immigration, the Tibetans have become a minority in Tibet"; "the Communists in Tibet force women to practice birth control and abortion"; the government opposes religious freedom and persecutes religious people; traditional Tibetan culture and art are in danger of extinction; the natural resources in Tibet have been seriously depleted; there is severe environmental pollution in Tibet, etc. The riots in Lhasa from September 1987 to March 1989 were incited by the Dalai clique and plotted by rebels who were sent back to Tibet. The riots incurred severe losses to the lives and property of Tibetans.

The Dalai's words and deeds have showed that he is no longer only a religious leader as he claims. On the contrary, he has become the political leader engaged in long-term divisive activities abroad.

'Tibetan Independence' Brooks No Discussion

The central government has adopted a consistent policy towards the Dalai Lama. It urges him to renounce separatism and return to the stand of patriotism and unity.

On December 28, 1978, the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping said to AP correspondents that "the Dalai Lama may return, but only as a Chinese citizen"; "we have but one demand -- patriotism. And we say that anyone is welcome, whether he embraces patriotism early or late." This indicates the central government's attitude of welcoming the Dalai Lama back to the motherland.

The Dalai Lama sent representatives to Beijing to contact the central government on February 28, 1979. On March 12, Deng Xiaoping met the Dalai Lama's representatives and said to them, "The Dalai Lama is welcome to come back. He can go out again after his return." With regard to the central government's negotiation with the side of the Dalai Lama, Deng pointed out, "Now, whether the dialogue to discuss and settle problems will be between the central government and Tibet as a state or Tibet as a part of China? This is a practical question." "Essentially Tibet is a part of China. This is the criterion for judging right or wrong."

The central government did everything possible to persuade the Dalai Lama and his followers, through negotiations, to give up their separatism and return to the motherland. The central government leaders have since 1980 met a number of delegations sent back by the Dalai Lama and reiterated on many occasions the central government's policy towards the Dalai Lama.

To satisfy the desire of both local and overseas Tibetans for visits and contacts, the central government has formulated and practiced the policy of free movement in and out of the country. It has also made clear that all patriots belong to one big family, whether they rally to the common cause now or later, and bygones can be bygones. From August 1979 to September 1980, central government departments concerned received three visiting delegations and two groups of relatives sent by the Dalai Lama. Most of the Dalai Lama's kin residing abroad have made return visits to China. Since 1979, Tibet and other Tibetan-inhabited areas have received some 8,000 overseas Tibetans who came to visit relatives or for sightseeing, and helped settle nearly 2,000 Tibetan compatriots.

Regretfully, the Dalai Lama did not draw on the good will of the central government. Instead, he further intensified his separatist activities. At a meeting of the Human Rights Subcommittee of the US Congress held in September 1987, the Dalai Lama put forward a "five-point proposal" regarding the so-called status of Tibet. He continued to advocate "Tibetan Independence," and instigate and plot a number of riots in Lhasa. In June 1988, the Dalai Lama raised a so-called "Strasbourg proposal" for the solution of the Tibet issue. On the premise that Tibet "had always been" an independent state, the proposal interpreted the issue of a regional national autonomy within a country as a relationship between a suzerain and a vassal state, and between a protector and a protected state, thus denying China's sovereignty over Tibet and advocating the independence of Tibet in a disguised way. The central government naturally rejected the proposal, because it was a conspiracy the imperialists once hatched in order to carve up China. The Chinese government solemnly declared, "China's sovereignty over Tibet brooks no denial. Of Tibet there could be no independence, nor semi-independence, nor independence in disguise."

Nevertheless, the central government still hopes that the Dalai Lama would rein in at the brink of the precipice and change his mind. In early 1989, the 10th Bainqen Lama passed away. Taking into account the historical religious ties between various generations of the Dalai Lama and the Bainqen Lama as teacher and student, the Buddhist Association of China, with the approval of the central government, invited the Dalai Lama to come back to attend the Bainqen Lama's memorial ceremonies. President Zhao Puchu of the association handed a letter of invitation to a personal representative of the Dalai Lama, providing the Dalai Lama with a good opportunity to meet with people in the Buddhist circles in China after 30 years of exile. But the Dalai Lama rejected the invitation.

As 1989 witnessed a new international anti-China wave, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Norway, with clearly political motives, awarded the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize to the Dalai Lama, giving its strong support to the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan separatists. Since then, the Dalai Lama has travelled the world, advocating Tibet's separation from China.

The Dalai Lama simultaneously intensified his efforts to incite and plot riots in Tibet. On January 19, 1990, he said over the BBC: If the Beijing government fails to hold talks with him on his plan of Tibet's autonomy within a year, he will have to change his stand of compromise with China; many young Tibetans stand for the use of force. On April 4, 1991, the Dalai Lama said in the Tibetan language program of the Voice of America, "All matters shall be further strengthened for Tibet's independence." Again on October 10 the same year, he tried instigation in a similar program, "At present, so large a number of Hans are pouring into Tibet that many young Tibetans cannot find jobs. This adds a further element of instability in the Tibetan society. Therefore, new riots are quite possible."

It is because the Dalai Lama sticks to his position of "Tibetan independence" and continues his efforts to split the motherland in and outside China that contacts between the central government and the representatives of the Dalai Lama have yielded no results.

Excerpts from Tibet -- Its Ownership And Human Rights Situation published by Information Office of the State Council of The People's Republic of China

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Canadian writer Lisa Carducci wrote an article entitled "What's the matter with Tibet?" for China Daily, a Beijing-based English newspaper, explaining why people outside China usually have a prejudice against Tibet. Here is the full text of the article, which was published on April 22:

It is one thing to be interested in Tibet, as most of my acquaintances are. It is another to have totally prejudiced views, which unfortunately is the case with most of them.

Only a handful are honest enough to hold their opinions until they visit Tibet and see things with their own eyes. Some others hear only what they want to hear and what doesn't disturb their "Tibetan imagination".

Here is an example. A Canadian friend of mine, a university professor, went to Tibet in May 1997. He later told me that his group had been sent away from a Tibetan restaurant by the police and directed to a Han establishment.

The reason, according to him, was racism, an attempt to "break" the "Tibetan nation". His immediate analysis - before he understood a word of what was going on - was obviously based on prejudice.

I was not there and didn't see what happened. But after discussing the fact with Han and Tibetan people who knew better, we all concluded that the real cause might have been one or more of the following: the owner of the Tibetan restaurant had no permit; he had not paid his taxes; the place was not hygienic enough for foreigners; the owner and the policeman had a personal dispute; or the owner was trafficking ancient tangka, a kind of Tibetan painting.

We also tend to assume that all Tibetans are the same and feel and act the same way. Far from it. Those I met in Tibet or in Xiahe county of Gansu province seem not interested in politics. They live happily and quietly, and have no complaints about the central government as long as their lives continue to prosper year after year.

At the village of Tashiling in Nepal, instead, the Tibetan women I chatted with for two hours at the market had different stories to tell.

The major difference between them and the Tibetans living in China is that the Tibetans in Nepal think that "the Hans invaded Tibet and forced them to flee the country".

The woman who spoke better Chinese and served as an interpreter for the group said: "When our country is free, we'll go back immediately and get good jobs! Do you think this is a life, what we do here? Commerce!"

I took pity on her because she seemed to have been completely swayed by anti-China propaganda. I told her that all the Tibetans I had met earlier knew very well what the central government of China had done for them and appreciated it.

"I'm sorry to tell you," I said, "that you fool yourself if you think that your Tibetan fellows inside the country think the same way you do and support your efforts for independence."

She stared at me, her eyes wide open. "Have you ever been to Tibet?"

"Of course! If not, how could I speak like this?" She remained silent a moment, then said: "Every year on March 10, the Tibetans of the world march for independence. If you go to Tibet on that day, you'll see the Chinese army killing so many people in the streets."

If there was any truth in her words, I thought, I must have been transported to another planet.

"We have seen photos, and videos," she continued. "Every year we see them."

"Who took these photos?"

"Foreigners. From other places."

I calmed down, before asking: "Are you sure these photos and films were taken recently? They may be from the 'cultural revolution' period when Tibetans just as other Chinese suffered and were treated badly. Or during the civil rebellion in 1959? Might you not have been deceived? Maybe they show you the same pictures year after year? Maybe the photos were altered?"

As a spokesperson of her group, she turned around, and said: "It's possible, but we have no means of checking."

"Might these activist friends of the Dalai Lama," I continued, "be the authors of the photocopied letters on the board at the village entrance, issued by 'His Holiness Dalai Lama's office'? And the inscription 'Chinese, leave', who do you think wrote it?"

I explained to them all the changes that had happened in Tibet and talked about all the money invested by the central government into reconstruction and development, the progress in education, the religious freedom, the improvement of health, society, life, and they were astonished. Apparently, no one had ever spoken to them like this.

"Do you believe me?" I asked.

"I believe you because you are a foreigner," said the woman, "not a member of the communist party. Are you?"

"You can trust me. I tell you only what I have seen. Tibet is a beautiful and peaceful place where people sing while they work, where people smile and enjoy life."

The younger ones among them were born in Nepal; others had fled Tibet to go to Nepal in the 1950s and never returned to Tibet. They have no passports; of course they cannot enter China.

I then visited a temple where a young 17-year-old monk said that his greatest aspiration was to see Tibet. He thought monks were arrested, jailed or even killed in China, his thought based on the fact that his friend went there and never returned.

"I'll tell you something, young man. Your friend may have been arrested because he entered a country illegally. But if you never heard from him after that, don't you think he might have accomplished his great desire: to see Tibet. He may be living in a monastery there!"

He bowed his head and said, "I wish I had such a chance!"

Finally, I realized that the Tibetans outside Tibet are the victims not only of ignorance but of a well-organized campaign of misinformation. And it struck me that it may be the same for the Dalai Lama.

The Dalai Lama, who left the country when he was still very young and under the influence of a group, and never saw Tibet with his own eyes later in life to be able to judge things for himself, is also a poor victim - much like the woman at the village market.

Source: Xinhua



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n an uproar some Western media have whipped up by capitalizing on the Olympic torch relay, the "demonization of China", which had once been rampant, is making a comeback again, and some Westerners of insight have also become aware of this current.

Hysteria and demonization of China were how Thomas Heberer, a leading China expert in Germany, described the overwhelmingly native Westerm media coverage in this regard. What is deplorable is that tremendous achievements China made in the past scores of years have been neglected.

Meanwhile, the "Washington Post" has quoted Mark Leonard, executive director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, as saying that "the story of the last five years has been about economic opportunities. The story of the last six months has been about China as a threat in Darfur and in Tibet."

For a period of time, some positive changes occurred in some Western media's reports and commentaries concerning China, with more voices to underscore contact, opportunities and responsibilities, and the "demonization of China" seemed to phase out then. The framed-up Western coverage of China topics this time, however, has enabled us to see that the "demonization of China" is by no means over and, once there are chances, it will come up to make mischief and stir up troubles again.

The reason the "demonization of China" still has a market is that the outlook of some Westerners regarding China remains unchanged. Despite tremendous changes that have taken place since the nation launched its reform and opening up three decades ago, the cognition of these Westerners on China and knowledge about the nation is outdated. Many of them do not know much about China, still less about the nation's peaceful rise. In the words of Heberer, for many Germans, they cannot tell what information about China is true and what information is false. Since they do not know China in the first place, their objective appraisal of the country is out of the question of course, he said.

When Westerners are facing the displacement of industrial enterprises overseas, outsourcing their work opportunities and seeing "China-made" products pile up in shops or stores in their countries and tourists from China walk in groups along streets of Paris, London and New York, they would instinctively envy, fear and even hate this big nation that has been developing without being based on the Western mode.

Such complex mentality has come chiefly from a sense of superiority deep-rooted in the value concept of Westerners. In analyzing such a mentality, Jose Freches, the cultural advisor to the French president, said it seems that the West never knows how to engage China, and China's changes have also made them not easy to see problems clearly.

For a long period of time, Westerners observe China with an air of contempt, and their basic way of thinking is that "whatever Western is correct". In their psychological anticipation, how can an Oriental nation that has been developing without basing itself on the Western mode not inflict global problems or pose challenges to the West? Some people, with such a mentality, are easily confused by such assertion of linking the Darfur issue (Sudan) to the Beijing Olympics.

To change the Westerns' outlook on China, we have to start with two processes. The first is (for China) to adhere to the peaceful development and clarify issues with ironclad facts. In its past three-decade reform and opening up, China mainly relied on its own efforts and did not create troubles for the world but instead spurred the solution of a couple of thorny, global issues. China's peaceful development is neither "zero-sum game" to the world, nor takes the decline of the West as the cost. On the contrary, China's prosperity has created immense opportunities for Western nations. So in the relationships between China and the West, there is not only competition but all the more cooperation and win-win as well.

Second, Westerners should adjust their mentality with respect to China's development. Since the nation's development has changed the Western outlooks on history and development, the West should cater to China's development, gradually get used to discussing problems on an equal footing with the country, draw on the essence of China's development and, on this basis, restructure the cognition of the West about China.

Of course, both processes would be long-standing. As for China, it requires still more self-confidence and patience to engage the West, even it has a complex mentality.

By People's Daily Online and its author is Ding Gang, a senior PD desk editor

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The Chinese government banned the spiritual group Falun Gong claiming it is an evil cult that threatens social stability and spreads superstitious thinking. The Chinese Communist Party officially recognizes only five religions - Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Catholicism and Protestantism - and accuses Falun Gong of illegal gatherings, theft, and actions causing the death of followers. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong who now lives in New York City, insists that Falun Gong is apolitical and has no intention of threatening its followers or the power of the Chinese government. Despite these assurances, the government has instigated an official crackdown on members including mass arrests, beatings, labor camps, charges of treason and subversion, and vilification in the official media. AsiaSource has compiled resources that explore the controversy over Falun Gong and why a purportedly harmless spiritual group is creating such a stir in China.

Founded in 1992, the movement has attracted more than 2 million followers including an estimated one third of the total from within the ruling Communist Party. The practice of Falun Gong involves meditation and breathing exercises and espouses mysticism that draws on traditional Chinese religion and philosophy. Li Hongzhi says Falun Gong fosters the "cultivation" of "moral qualities" and the practice of truthfulness, benevolence and forbearance. Yet in a strikingly bizarre interview by Time Magazine on May 10, 1999, Li elaborates on the practice of Falun Gong by talking about the ability to levitate as well as how aliens are invading human minds and culture. In later statements and interviews, Li mainly defends his leadership and tries to resolve misunderstandings about himself.

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Apr 25, 2008 17:32:11 GMT -5 Flash said:

The Chinese government banned the spiritual group Falun Gong claiming it is an evil cult that threatens social stability and spreads superstitious thinking. The Chinese Communist Party officially recognizes only five religions - Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Catholicism and Protestantism - and accuses Falun Gong of illegal gatherings, theft, and actions causing the death of followers. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong who now lives in New York City, insists that Falun Gong is apolitical and has no intention of threatening its followers or the power of the Chinese government. Despite these assurances, the government has instigated an official crackdown on members including mass arrests, beatings, labor camps, charges of treason and subversion, and vilification in the official media. AsiaSource has compiled resources that explore the controversy over Falun Gong and why a purportedly harmless spiritual group is creating such a stir in China.

Founded in 1992, the movement has attracted more than 2 million followers including an estimated one third of the total from within the ruling Communist Party. The practice of Falun Gong involves meditation and breathing exercises and espouses mysticism that draws on traditional Chinese religion and philosophy. Li Hongzhi says Falun Gong fosters the "cultivation" of "moral qualities" and the practice of truthfulness, benevolence and forbearance. Yet in a strikingly bizarre interview by Time Magazine on May 10, 1999, Li elaborates on the practice of Falun Gong by talking about the ability to levitate as well as how aliens are invading human minds and culture. In later statements and interviews, Li mainly defends his leadership and tries to resolve misunderstandings about himself.

www.xinhuanet.com/english/ztbd/jpflg-new/index.htm

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n the late 1950s and early 1960s I worked in a Christian missionary school near the Tibetan border in north India, where refugees were entering in their thousands. A number of my students were Tibetan children. Talking to the refugees and my students, I learned about Tibet and its people before and after the physical occupation by China.

There were three classes of people in Tibet: the feudal landlords who owned all the land, monks who spent their time reading scriptures and begging, and serfs who worked the land for the feudal lords. The Dalai Lama presided over the whole life of Tibetans as god-king.

The landlords treated the serfs with the same ruthlessness as the landlords of the Dark Ages in Western Europe. There were no roads, no hospitals and no modern schools in Tibet, no human rights, and no democracy. Outsiders were banned during the Dalai Lama's time. The refugees did not speak of a genocide of Tibetans by the Chinese. The refugees who came to India were mainly the feudal landlords with their wealth in gold, their servants and some monks, together with the Dalai Lama.

The Chinese takeover changed the face of Tibet. They built roads, schools and hospitals and other infrastructure necessary for an acceptable modern life. They instituted land reforms and gave dignity in life to the serfs. That the monks still comprise a sizeable population in Tibet is significant, and makes me wonder how much the spiritual life of Tibetans has been affected by the Chinese.

Lindsey Hilsum, China correspondent for Britain's Channel 4 News has given an interesting perspective on the unrest in Tibet. In the New Statesman (March 19) she wrote that the unrest in Tibet is caused by the economic disparity between the Tibetans and the Han Chinese and Hui Muslims who own the majority of shops and businesses.

These Chinese minorities, with their better business acumen, have benefited most from the upturn in the Tibetan economy. This has fuelled the resentment of Tibetans against its Chinese minorities. Freedom or religion has very little to do with what is happening in Tibet now.

Bill Mathew Parkville (Vic)