The brutal reality of Tibet 2008

[Sino-PakFriendship]

I don't know why Indian enjoy the lie that Tibet was British colony and India should have Tibetan soverenity!

 

[Drauhtinon]

Almost any western source coming out of Tibet is biased! Since when did the west care about humanity? Why is "Tibet" the only center of "humanity" attention when hundreds of thousands of people are being killed of hunger in Africa and Zinosts violence in Palestine, Indian Army brutality on their own land like Kashmir??
THE WEST and INDIA are being opportunist specially that scum lama who has blown Tibet issue out of proportion ahead of Chinese Olympics!
I BET 95% of the world did not know of Tibet issue before Western media out burst on China over Tibet in 2007-08.

yes, lies that comes from the mouths of the most destructive race that roams the earth.. the white race. masters of falsehood..

LONG LIVE ASIA mhhwaaahaaha

btw, that quote (revised by me though, with a twist) came from a well known and respected expert of IHL, Jean Pictet

 

[voiceofaa]

Torture, hunger, mobile sterilisation units ... the brutal reality of Tibet 2008
By CLAUDIA JOSEPH
Last updated at 21:52 29 March 2008


British filmmakers have emerged from three months undercover in Tibet to release a terrifying portrayal of Chinese repression, including shootings, torture and the brutal sterilisation of women left maimed by crude operations.

Their film, to be shown tomorrow night as part of Channel 4's Dispatches series, was made before the recent outbreak of anti-Chinese rioting in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa.

But with hundreds of jailed Tibetan protesters now in fear for their lives, the harrowing footage will add to the storm of condemnation gathering ahead of the Beijing Olympics this year.



The documentary's investigation began with the notorious 2006 shootings on the Nangpa La pass, when unarmed Tibetans trying to leave the country were gunned down by Chinese border guards.

Two Tibetans were killed and 32 detained, interrogated and then sent to a labour camp 150 miles from Lhasa.

The experiences of one of those held, Jamyang Samten, now 16, gives a clue to the fate of Tibetan protesters now in the hands of the Chinese police.

He told the programme makers he was given electric shocks with a cattle prod, chained to a wall and hit in the stomach by a guard wearing a metal glove.


If he made a minor mistake in his interrogation, he would be beaten with a chain.

"The way the Chinese tortured was terrifying," he said.

"They beat us using their full strength. Sometimes they forced us to take off our clothes. We were locked up in a room with our arms and legs handcuffed and they beat us. The chain injured the surface but not the inside of the body.

"If they hit us with the electric baton, our entire body trembled and gradually we were unable to speak."

Jamyang was eventually released and finally made it over the border to Kathmandu in Nepal after paying a guide the equivalent of £210.

Tibetan women are also forcibly prevented from having children, despite supposedly being exempt from China's strict birth-control laws, the film's director Jezza Neumann discovered.

Measures include monitoring menstrual cycles, forced abortions and sterilisation if women cannot afford a fine for having a second child.
One woman, a married farmer, described her agony at a forced sterilisation operation without anaesthetic.

She could not afford the fine, equivalent to £70, and was one of six in her village who went through the ordeal.

"I was forcibly taken away against my will. I was feeling sick and giddy and couldn't look up," she said.

"Apparently they cut the fallopian tubes and stitched them up. It was agonisingly painful. They didn't use anaesthetic. They just smeared something on my stomach and carried out the sterilisation.

"Apart from aspirin for the pain, there were no other drugs. I was so frightened, I can't even remember how I felt. Some people were even physically damaged by the operation. They have limps and have to drag their hips."

Unconfirmed reports also suggest mobile sterilisation units are inserting a new type of contraceptive coil into village women that cannot be removed by them.

Every year, some 3,000 Tibetans brave death to flee across the Himalayas and into exile in Nepal.

The land they leave behind is saturated with secret police creating a climate of terror and mistrust ? a land where merely protesting will invite arrest and severe punishment, found Mr Neumann.

The director spent his time undercover accompanied by a Tibetan refugee, Tash Despa, who now lives in London.

"There are spies everywhere," said Mr Neumann. "There are the uniformed police and army, the secret police in their suits and dark glasses and then a spy network of Chinese and Tibetans. It's like the Stasi in East Germany.

"It's got to the point where brothers don't trust their sisters and mothers don't trust their children."

According to the Tibetan Government in exile, cases of arbitrary arrest and detention have increased threefold in a year.

But Mr Neumann ? nominated for five Bafta awards for China's Stolen Children, a film investigating the black market in babies created by the notorious "one child policy" ? said the whole Tibetan culture was under attack.

New dams have flooded entire villages, driving farmers off ancestral lands. Monks are vulnerable because of the Dalai Lama's role as a religious and political leader in exile.
And nomads have been forcibly resettled into concrete camps without schools, clinics or bus services. Their livestock has been confiscated.

"Life here is incredibly hard," said a woman in one camp.

"People are suffering from hunger and hardship. They have no jobs and they have no land. The only way they can fill their empty stomachs is by stealing. We live in terror.

"We don't even have basic human rights, not even freedom of speech. Everybody is so depressed. They look awful. Their faces have become pale. Their eyes are sunken. Everyone is afraid of speaking the truth."

Mr Neumann is particularly anxious about the plight of the recent protesters.

"I haven't met anyone who had been arrested who wasn't tortured," he said.

"God only knows what will happen to them if they burnt down a Chinese shop or threw a rock at an official's car or threw a shoe at a policeman."

Torture, hunger, mobile sterilisation units ... the brutal reality of Tibet 2008 | Mail Online

But still can't beat brutality of world's biggest secular state

 

[mDumb]

The brutal reality of Tibet 2008, is the distorted report by Western media.

The Sino Tibetans should study their history more closely to what the ******* Brits to them when Sino was weak (aka the SICK OLD MAN of ASIA).

The Sino Tibetans should focus more on education and to better their lives, instead of being stupid instruments to be manipulated by the CIA, whites, etc.

Guess who will absorb or invade Sino Tibet if it's let go by Sino? The ******* ******!!!!

 

[Sino-PakFriendship]

anti cnn.com is a joke!

Indo-Tibetan empire is joke!

Tibet did, does and will belong to China!

 

[Sino-PakFriendship]

....yet more evidence of the Nazi-style regime in Tibet.

Tibet is ours!

Neither India's nor Western's

 

[Sino-PakFriendship]

GyD2GR-v2zQ[/media] - Tibetans killed by Chinese Army

Link:

http://www.youtube.___/watch?v=GyD2GR-v2zQ&NR=1

Indian kill much more Kashmir muslim!

 

[cera]

I would strongly recommend Mr. Flintlock to search online to see if you can find that a Briton or Yankee has documented the brutal killing of Iraq people video clip on the internet. If you are so lucky, then please post that here and to your friends in India or your western friends in US and Briton.

BTW, I tried to watch that so-called "the brutal reality of Tibet 2008" on youtube, but it was removed. As a Chinese, I have another sincerely recommendation - when you read something about China from the western media, you'd better also watch the other side report or, even better, go visit China to take a look by yourself. This way you can make some good judgement and not being fooled and also fool other people here.

 

[Aeneas]

The intransigence of the CPC regime in dealing with the Dalai Lama, who had long ago given up his demand for an Independent Tibet belies their true intentions - to colonize Tibet and reshape their society so as to make in indistinguishable from the rest of China.

not enough,I tell you he is an unconfessed criminal who had lead an armed rebellion in 1959.a criminal must confess his crime to court.

It's not about "the intransigence of the CPC regime",it's about legal procedure.He may be pardon from punishment of China law by government,but he must confess and put to trial first.

your Indian government should treat armed rebellion criminal likewise,wouldn't you?

could Bin Laten say hello to US government and promise never attack US again,and then US government let him go?without arrest him and put to trial?

if India government don't treat armed rebellion criminal likewise,I recommend all India generals or other people planning for an armed rebellion.what a happy game.if they failed,just come to China or Pakistan or other nations,and say hello to India government and promise never do that again.then they could go back to India without trial or sentence.