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.

Genocide Olympics Flame of Shame. Solidarity for Tibet and Darfur people. Shame on the Olympic committee for giving the worldwide Olympics honor to Beijing, while it has issues of genocide.

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”.

Free Tibet t-shirts. Show some solidarity for the Tibetan people, and scream for their right to return home, free of persecution from China’s CCP. Free Tibet floral leaf design.