March to Tibet Supply Trucks confiscated: Fear of food supply shortage imminent

I would think India would want the Tibetan issue resolved because they apparently don’t like the Tibetan refugees in their country. If this were the case then why would they want to stop the March to Tibet and arrest the Tibetans? The only way this will be resolved is by these types of protests all over because China continues to cover up what they are doing to the Tibetan people and the Tibetan country.

These problems would not be happening if China’s fascist communist government had not confiscated the Tibetan country. What the heck, they are Tibetan people not Chinese, and colonialism is so 19th century. You can’t become an alleged “superpower” by colonialism in the 20th – 21st century.

March to Tibet Supply Trucks confiscated: Fear of food supply shortage imminent
Almost 200kms from the Indo-Tibet border, the marchers are however determined to continue with their march and have made their decision clear to the authorities that they would be willing to forego on food for their resolve in realizing what they set out to achieve.

“In the past months, the March to Tibet has grown into a nonviolent force of 300 determined marchers and even now many Tibetans are on the move to join us,” said Sherab Woeser, a coordinator of the March to Tibet. “The Indian authorities are escalating the situation in their efforts to stop the march, with many hundreds of police stationed along the road, but the 300 marchers remain committed to returning to Tibet.”

On Tuesday an estimated force of 1000 police blocked the camp entrance. Photo by Tenzin Dasel/Phayul.com
On May 27 an estimated force of 1000 police blocked the camp entrance and ordered the marchers to turn back or risk being arrested. Crossing a dry riverbed, the marchers peacefully resorted to a Gandhian style sit-in. They sang the Tibetan National Anthem and chanted prayers for an hour before the police retreated and eventually left the campsite. The same scenario occurred again on May 28. The marchers will continue with their sit-in until the six leaders are released.

Tibet Through Chinese Eyes

This is a good podcast on current Chinese view of Tibet, and why the younger generation of Chinese think Tibetans owe them something.

The Tibet Connection
TIBET THROUGH CHINESE EYES: Buddhist scholar and Tibet historian DR. JOHN POWERS offers insights into how the Chinese peoples traditional view of Tibet is affecting Beijings policy.

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Fire the lobbyists

Nothings about the people anymore.

I think it’s time for the people of this world to rise up against these dictators, and those who support them because they are taking what belongs to the people.

Including any American company who does any work for these dictators. It’s like the Myanmar government taking the food and other supplies that should be distributed to the people by the aid workers. Otherwise, the people wouldn’t get the bulk of the supplies. During a disaster the government should of held on to the rice supplies, the rice shipments that should of went to the starving Burmese people was shipped out because of money the Junta would make from current high cost rice.

Fire the lobbyists!
Last week, two McCain staffers resigned after it was reported that they had performed extensive lobbying on behalf of the Burmese junta. However, Doug Goodyear and Doug Davenport are the not the only lobbyists on McCain’s campaign staff with ties to unsavory international figures.

Three other lobbyists, Charlie Black, Tom Loeffler, and Peter Madigan, and their firms’ clients, have generated at least $3.5 million in campaign donations to Sen. McCain over his career, according to Campaign Money Watch analysis of campaign finance data provided by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics (hyperlink: www.opensecrets.org). DCI Group, which employed Davenport and Goodyear, and their clients provided less than a quarter as much campaign money — $817,685 — to McCain’s elections.

Waseda hears Hus upbeat spin

This is interesting because a lot of the posts I see regarding anti-Tibetan poster’s claim that China is a great nation, and I’m not disputing that, I think the Chinese people are great. I don’t appreciate what the government has done to Tibet and the repression of the Tibetan people, and their culture. There’s a great deal of disrespect toward the Tibetan people, of course I have a lot to learn, but basic information is important right now.

It’s nice to see President Hu express that the country is a developing country with a lot of needed work on it’s infrastructure. I was under a different impression from Chinese posters all over the Internet who were anti-Tibet. It was also a breath of fresh air for him not to pressure Japan about WWII, lets move on and learn from the past.

Most communist country’s that swallowed up land during WWII, and retained other countries from WWI have returned land to the people and their own countries.

Waseda hears Hus upbeat spin
China is still a developing country struggling with grave structural problems and needs stable relations with Japan and other nations to ensure its development, Chinese President Hu Jintao said Thursday in a speech at Waseda University in Tokyo.

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Refusing to be silenced: Protesters holding Tibet flags stage a rally Thursday at Waseda University in Tokyo ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintaos speech at the campus later in the day. KYODO PHOTO

“China will never fight for hegemony for good, nor try to expand its territory,” Hu told the Okuma Auditorium audience at Prime Minister Yasuo Fukudas alma mater.

Although he did not mention Tibet in his afternoon speech, more than 100 students and protesters — some carrying Tibetan flags — protested Hus visit on campus, urging China to end its repression of Tibet.

“China is still the worlds largest developing country,” Hu said. “Its population is large, its basis is weak, and its development is unbalanced.”

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China Attempts to Rewrite Tibetan History (Spiegel)

I think this is clear enough!

Everyones history isn’t great, including China’s history of slaves, or did they write that out of their books.

This is the China we all know or at least the communist party that rules over China and it’s people. Typical propaganda, with nothing or no information that would even taint China’s alleged reputation. They can point, blame and turn Tibetan people into evil villains in their book, but China is the one with all the firepower in that region. Tibetans, if they wanted to wouldn’t even be able to defend themselves from Chinese propaganda or firepower because China is controlling all of that.

Like I had previously mentioned China is to blame for these problems, no one else. China has the control, if they wanted to they can claim that the Dalai Clique is the cause, but that doesn’t carry any weight, and I wouldn’t put it past the CCP to commit a terrorist act and blame it on Buddhist’s. It’s typical CCP work! Other communist fascist countries have done the same thing, that’s how they work.

Doesn’t appear they are trying fix any of the agreements before the Olympics.

China Attempts to Rewrite Tibetan History (Spiegel) [read full story]
A new exhibition on Tibet mounted in China’s capital city portrays farmers who were heavily in debt while the Dalai Lama lived in the lap of luxury. The central message of the propaganda offensive against what Beijing likes to call the “Dalai clique”? China first brought civilization to Tibet.

The Dalai Lama: Beijing is continue its campaign of propaganda attacks against the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.
The exhibition’s organizers keep a tight grip on security: Police cars and numerous officers stand in the forecourt and visitors have to show their IDs at the ticket office. Inside uniformed and plain clothes police officers are on patrol, as well — and some of them are photographing the crowds.

In this way the authorities are creating a climate of fear — one which fits in with their current propaganda. After the unrest in Tibet and neighboring provinces, the Chinese government has been unremittingly attacking the so-called “Dalai clique,” branding it a terrorist organization which the state now needs to protect its people from.

“The exhibition shows the backwardness and darkness of the old Tibet,” a sign at the entrance proclaims. The exhibition also demonstrates “the long and inseparable history between Tibet and its fatherland,” because, as the exhibition suggests, it has been “Chinese territory” since ancient times.

Negotiation Nightmare!

Seems like China’s offer to talk is nothing more than a shallow offer to talk about the Tibetan issue for the purpose of PR and the Summer Olympics.

It’s the same old story coming from them, and it really is getting tiring. This needs to happen today, not after the Olympics, and Beijing needs to allow foreign security for the Olympics because frankly I wouldn’t trust them with their alleged claims that the Dalai Lama is doing all this.

I see the Chinese Communist Party creating all these problems, not the Dalai Lama or the Tibetan people, and I wouldn’t trust having a seat at the Summer Olympics for fear of my own life, unless the US had security to protect me. It’s a scary place, and I now know how the Tibetan people must feel or the Japanese for being poisoned with tainted gyoza.

NEGOTIATION NIGHTMARE – Jamyang Norbu [read full story]
From the little information we are getting it appears that the Chinese are conducting massive crackdowns and reprisals all over Tibet. First of all it is clear that the trial of the thirty protesters in Lhasa, although a travesty in terms of real justice, is also possibly a red herring. The basic idea of the trial seems to have been to create the impression that not many people have been arrested in Tibet.

In reality thousands of Tibetans have been arrested and will probably be tried in secret (or not have a trial at all) and be incarcerated or shot. Woeser in her last Tibet Update reports that “thousands of Tibetans have met with the fate of being killed, being arrested, being tortured to confess, being missing, committing suicide or having mental disorder, and this has brought disasters to countless Tibetan families.”

I have also heard of many hundreds, maybe even a thousand or so men in rural Amdo and Kham hiding out in the mountains, to avoid police and military crackdowns in their districts. There has been the report of a gunfight between Tibetans and Chinese security personnel. A couple of days ago I received an unconfirmed account of two women in a village in Amdo who were harassed beyond endurance by Chinese policemen about religious images in their home. The women stabbed three policemen to death and were themselves subsequently gunned down. In all likelihood it appears that the situation in Tibet will deteriorate further. The situation is deeply troubling especially since there is little or no information on what is actually happening.

No amount of begging, pleading or further negotiating with Beijing will bring any resolution, even a little improvement, to this crisis. I think that Dharamshala has one real option left to deal with this situation. It must act in a way that is bold, dynamic and totally unanticipated by Beijing. The exile government must declare that in light of the sentiments expressed by Tibetan people in the recent protests, and the harshness and implacability of the Chinese government’s response to the expression of their basic human rights, the Tibetan government is compelled to reconsider its Middle Path policy. That the Kashag and the Tibetan parliament will immediately commence joint hearings to review the Middle Path policy and that representatives of Tibetan organizations advocating independence will be invited to offer their testimonies at the proceedings.

To His Holiness I would respectfully suggest that he make a public announcement stating that though he had genuinely and unreservedly supported China’s bid to host the Olympic Games, the lives and welfare of the thousands of Tibetans – victims of China’s crackdown – were far more important than a sporting event (even one as major as the Olympics). That unless China agreed to allow international agencies as the Red Cross, the UN or Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders, and other such organizations, to send their personnel freely throughout Tibet to verify the conditions of these people and check on their legal situation, he would be compelled to appeal to the world to boycott the Beijing Games. Furthermore he would call on all his subjects, his friends, supporters and disciples worldwide, to engage in non-violent but direct action to disrupt China’s massive ultra-nationalist propaganda exercise, for which the 2008 Olympic Games is being effectively employed.

Real negotiations might follow, for the first time.

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The Global Greens Passed a Resolution Supporting Tibet

It would be a simple task for China to allow independent international inquiry into the situation of Tibet, and even other issues claimed by other refugees of China. It is an international issue because China created the problem of refugees, not just Tibetan refugees, but Chinese refugees who have fled China. Refugees are a testament to the problems taking place, and that is an international issue.

It would be a simple task for them to allow an inquiry, but they continue to hide these issues from the rest of the world and hiding only deepens the problem and creates a black cloud.

The Global Greens Passed a Resolution Supporting Tibet
The Global Greens resolution on Tibet, sponsored by German, French and Taiwanese Green Parties, calls for an independent international inquiry into the tragic events in Tibet and urges the Chinese authorities to grant foreign reporters full access to Tibet and the bordering regions.

While regretting that the past six rounds of talks between the Beijing and Dharamsala remained inconclusive, the resolution supported His Holiness the Dalai Lamas call for a resumption of serious negotiations between the two sides with a view of achieving a full and genuine political, cultural and spiritual autonomy for Tibet within China.

The resolution also welcomed the Beijings recent announcement of its willingness to resume a dialogue with the representatives of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and stressed “the need for a real talk between both sides to enter into a substantive and constructive dialogue with a view to reach a sustainable solution acceptable to all that would fully respect Tibetan culture, religion and identity”.

The resolution also called on the Chinese authorities “to invite the Dalai Lama to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games as a sign of goodwill”.

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Tibet’s government in exile: Talks with China went off well

This is great!

I hope China’s communist party is sincere in reopening these talks, not just because the Olympics are a few months away.

Tibet’s government in exile: Talks with China went off well
Tibet’s government in exile said Monday that it was pleased with the “informal” talks between Chinese officials and envoys of the Dalai Lama and that Beijing had committed to continue the dialogue. “We did not attach high expectations to the talks, and according to our expectations, the dialogue went off well,” Samdhong Rinpoche, prime minister of the government in exile, said via telephone from the north Indian hilltown of Dharamsala, where the Dalai Lama and his government in exile are based.

Although the talks achieved no breakthrough, the discussions proceeded satisfactorily in a “good atmosphere” with both sides communicating their positions to each other, Rinpoche said.

Torch relay worsens China crackdown: Uighur leader

Instead of moving forward China appears to be moving backward. You would think that China should be against colonialism and the oppression of people on that land, but instead they continue the practice by shoving it in our faces with this torch relay.

I no longer trust nor believe anything coming from the mouths of the Communist Party. I’m sure they will say anything to gain approval from the world community, as well as act on those claims themselves dressed as the alleged perpetrators. The communist party has already masquerade as Tibetans and Monks, so why not Uighur’s?

Torch relay worsens China crackdown: Uighur leader
“Everywhere, homes, hotels are searched. People are arrested,” Dolkun Isa, secretary general of the Munich-based World Uighur Congress, told AFP in Tokyo.

“Even people with no past records have been arrested simply because they look suspicious.”

Kadeer, who spent six years in a Chinese jail from 1999-2005 and now lives in exile in the United States, also repeated her charge that China fabricated recent claims that it broke up Xinjiang-based terror cells targeting the Olympics.

“China is using the occasion to host the 2008 Olympics as an opportunity to further demonise the Uighur peoples legitimate and peaceful struggle and justify its heavy-handed repression in East Turkestan,” she said.

China plans to bring the torch to Xinjiang on June 25-27 as part of a relay through the mainland that began on Sunday in the lead up to the August Olympics.

The torchs international relay route has been marred by protests against Chinas human rights record and crackdown on Tibet.

A Shocking Look Inside Chinese Fur Farms

They are sick!

Why would anyone purchase anything from China? From organ harvesting, fur farms, pesticide tainted gyoza; laogai, forced labor and colonialism should say to the rest of the world enough is enough!

Wake up world!

Gandhi said: “the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

A society with such a long history should be beyond consciousness, and should be able to see and understand what it’s doing wrong, and harming other’s should be the first step to understanding what is wrong.

A Shocking Look Inside Chinese Fur Farms
When undercover investigators made their way onto Chinese fur farms recently, they found that many animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails to skin them. When workers on these farms begin to cut the skin and fur from an animal’s leg, the free limbs kick and writhe. Workers stomp on the necks and heads of animals who struggle too hard to allow a clean cut.

When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals’ heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them. Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Some of the animals’ hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned. One investigator recorded a skinned raccoon dog on the heap of carcasses who had enough strength to lift his bloodied head and stare into the camera.

Ghost of Beijing Genocide Olympics. Solidarity for those killed in Darfur, Tibet and for the Chinese people who are tortured and killed for speaking up. May their ghosts be with you.