The Truth-Riot in Tibet

[kvLin]

By now, the unrest started last Friday in Lahsa has stopped, and the biggest city on the Plateau regained peace. 160 mobs delivered himself up to police and residents are clearing up the mass in Lahsa.

Today, after few days silence, China's CCTV News Channel released a recording video on the riot in Lahsa, it shows all the horrible disaster made by Tree Tibet mobs and interviews of the wounded. several Tibetans died in the fire set by Tibetan mobs, ie. a 18-year-old Tibetan girl from neighboring province of Sichuan with her han ethnic friend, working together as assistant at a dress shop owned by her firiend's father. mobs blocked all 6 female clerks in and set fire to the shop, the pretty young Tibetan girl, along with her 4 colleagues, died of the burns. only one escaped from the fire.

Choma,the only survivor from the dress shop,who tells the story

Chenjia,one of the victims

interview of victim's parents, who lost their daughter, a Tibetan girl at her first job.

a brave Tibetan doctor was seriously attacked when he tried to stop the mobs from destroying his ambulance with a wounded Han child and his father inside. now he is still in coma at hospital.

CCTV says tens of innocent people lost their life in the riot, but I guess, including those on edge of death, the actual death toll might be up to 100, since the Tibetan attacks were towards both Han and Hui ethnic (Chinese Muslim) and burnt down a Muslim masque, saying that Hui people had been dominating the meat market in Tibet and hence "to be killed". the Chinese government are worring about reactions by Hui groups and hence will likely try hard to control the situation.

The western media had been very biased on this event, but laterly after being censured by readers on the internet, as well as objective records being issued by tourists back from Tibet, world's media like in England, Australia and Canada began to report in a professional way.

The riot went in way of terrorism other than demonstation.

 

[kvLin]

Tourists speak of shock and fear at Tibet riots
From The Times
March 19, 2008

Tourists speak of shock and fear at Tibet riots - Times Online




Western tourists who fled Lhassa said that mobs of Tibetans turned on anyone and anything that looked Chinese


Tourists described their shock as they watched a mob of Tibetans beating Chinese passers-by

 

[kvLin]

Tibetans attacked Chinese, say Lhasa tourists


Tibetans attacked Chinese, say Lhasa tourists - Telegraph

By Thomas Bell
Last Updated: 2:45am GMT 19/03/2008

Tourists arriving in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, from the closed city of Lhasa have told how they saw angry mobs of Tibetans attacking ethnic Chinese last Friday.

Claude Balsiger, 25, from Switzerland, said he saw the violence develop in Barkhor Square, near the Jokhang Temple.
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"The young people were in action and the old people were supporting with screaming. Howling like wolves, that's how they supported them.

"Anything that looked Chinese was attacked. I saw at least seven to eight Chinese people attacked with stones and fists."

He saw one old Chinese man rescued from the mob by elderly Tibetan people, and believes the intervention of a Canadian tourist saved another life.

John Kenwood, a 19-year-old Canadian, believes he saw a man die. "They were knocking people off motorcycles," he said. "One man was hit several times in the head with a large piece of sidewalk." When his attackers left him he was not moving.

Mr Kenwood also saw boxes of stones being supplied to Tibetan throwers.

"To me it was like it was planned," he said. Both men said a rumour spread that a group of monks arrested on Monday had been killed by the Chinese, and that this inflamed emotions.

By the end of the day "huge fires were rising above the buildings all over Lhasa and black smoke was everywhere," said Mr Kenwood. "I never saw any monks take part in the violence."

Over the weekend tanks and troops poured into the city. Tourists were confined to their hotels, but they heard shooting, explosions and the use of tear gas.

On the streets yesterday sweepers were cleaning up the debris. "Ironically, they were wearing Beijing 2008 hats," said Mr Kenwood.

 

[kvLin]

Vedio taken by Australian tourist in Lahsa
DhjCX4KIz4Q[/media] - First Cut: Aussie captures Tibet riots on camera



Riot in Gansu province
a corwd of Tibetan mobs were ready to raid governmental office.
iTmZr61seiE[/media] - 千名藏人骑马欲攻甘肃政府办公室



the biased video editing works by west media
you can esaily find out the mix-up effects in it.
HcNZZF0LRrs[/media] - New Protests in Tibet, 16 Dead



Riot in Tibet: True Face of Western Media
to know how those biased video and pics were made up and used.
uSQnK5FcKas[/media] - Riot in Tibet: True face of western media




Tibet: Friendly Fuedalism?
The "Tibet Myth" by Michael Parenti (US scholar, politician/historian)
WWGGjpJJCKE[/media] - Michael Parenti - Tibet: Friendly Fuedalism?




“How China Got Religion” By SLAVOJ ZIZEK
New York Times

"the problem with Tibetan Buddhism resides in an obvious fact that many Western enthusiasts conveniently forget: the traditional political structure of Tibet is theocracy, with the Dalai Lama at the center. He unites religious and secular power — so when we are talking about the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, we are taking about choosing a head of state. It is strange to hear self-described democracy advocates who denounce Chinese persecution of followers of the Dalai Lama — a non-democratically elected leader if there ever was one. ”

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Sarkozy uses Olympics to pressure China on Tibet

BEIJING (AFP) — French President Nicholas Sarkozy stepped up the pressure on China Saturday over its handling of the Tibet crisis by warning he may boycott the Olympic opening, following fresh violence.

Sarkozy's warning, delivered by one of his ministers in the Le Monde newspaper, also came shortly after China said it would step up a controversial "education" campaign for Tibetans in an effort to end nearly a month of unrest.

Sarkozy will only attend the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony if China opens dialogue with exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and frees political prisoners, French Secretary of State for Human Rights Rama Yade said.

China must also end the "violence" against Tibetans, Yade told Le Monde, saying all three conditions were "indispensable" if he was to be at the opening ceremony in August 8.

His comments were among the sharpest by a world leader over China's crackdown on what has become the biggest challenge to its rule of the remote Himalayan region in decades.

Protests that began on March 10 in Tibet's capital, Lhasa, escalated into rioting and then spread to other areas of western China with Tibetan populations.

China says Tibetan rioters have killed 20 people. But Tibetan exiled groups say 135-140 people have been killed in the Chinese crackdown.

The death toll from the crackdown was before the latest outbreak of unrest, in southwest China's Sichuan province in Thursday, that left eight Tibetans dead, according to activist groups and Tibetan exiles.

China's communist rulers have been deeply angered and embarrassed over the Tibetan unrest, as it has overshadowed preparations for the Beijing Olympics and exposed other human rights issues.

Tibetans have been protesting over what they say has been widespread repression under nearly six decades of Chinese rule.

In Xinjiang, a Muslim-populated region of northwest China which neighbours Tibet, there have also been protests in recent days to express similar sentiments, although not on nearly the same scale as the Tibetan unrest.

The jailing of prominent Chinese dissident Hu Jia on Thursday for subversion added to concerns around the world that the human rights situation in China was getting worse instead of better ahead of the Games.

But China showed no signs of backing down on Saturday.

The state-run Tibet Daily quoted the region's deputy Communist Party chief as telling a group of influential monks that "reinforcing patriotic education" was now a top priority.

"Especially reinforce education of young monks about the legal system so that they become patriots who love religion and observe discipline and law," the paper quoted Hao Peng as saying.

The International Campaign for Tibet said the re-education campaign, a tactic long used by the Communist Party, typically involved forcing Tibetans to denounce the Dalai Lama.

The Dalai Lama fled his homeland in 1959 and remains a revered figure for Tibetans, although China believes he is a dangerous figure bent on achieving independence for Tibet.

China says he is orchestrating the latest unrest and refuses to hold talks with him. The 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner denies fomenting the unrest.

Such orders to denounce the Dalai Lama helped trigger Thursday's protest in Garze county of Sichuan province, International Campaign for Tibet spokesman Kate Saunders said.

China's official Xinhua news agency reported the incident late Friday, saying police were forced to fire warning shots to quell a "riot" in which protesters attacked a government building and seriously wounded one official.

Xinhua did not give other key details in its brief dispatch, such as how many "rioters" were involved or why they had marched on the government office.

The International Campaign for Tibet, the Free Tibet Campaign and Radio Free Asia reported that police had fired directly into the protesters, killing at least eight.

The attempted re-education campaign had taken place at Tongkor monastery, which the Free Tibet Campaign said had about 370 monks.

Independently verifying what happened, as with all the unrest, is extremely difficult because China has barred foreign reporters from travelling to Tibet and the other hotspot areas and blanketed them with security.

Calls by AFP to local government offices, hospitals and religious bureaus went unanswered or were met with denials of knowing anything about the incident.

AFP: Sarkozy uses Olympics to pressure China on Tibet

AFP: Sarkozy uses Olympics to pressure China on Tibet

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Turning point for Tibet



In the last few weeks, we have witnessed an uprising against the Chinese authorities' repressive policies on the Tibetan plateau the likes of which we have not seen in a generation.

Beijing has responded with a crackdown on a scale never seen before in Tibet, all just months before the Olympics are to open in Beijing.

As the representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in talks with the Chinese leadership since 2002, I have been deeply fearful that such events would come to pass. But none of us imagined the scale of the protests, given China's tight control in Tibet.

On more than one occasion during our six rounds of discussion with representatives of the Chinese government, I emphasized that Beijing's policies were driving Tibetans into a corner.

We knew that the heavy-handed implementation of policies undermining Tibetans' distinct identity, combined with the influx of large numbers of Chinese migrants to the plateau, and in particular the virulent official denunciations of the Dalai Lama in recent times, meant that Tibetans were almost at breaking point.

We are deeply concerned with the selective way in which the Chinese authorities are representing the crisis. The rifts that are developing between Tibetans and Chinese could last for generations and they could cause irrevocable harm to the harmonious relations between the two communities.

The protests that we have seen among my Tibetan compatriots are not only a result of several years of hard-line policies by Beijing. They have deeper roots, arising from 50 years of Chinese misrule.

Their geographical spread, across the entire plateau - from the vast grasslands of Amdo and Kham, to the three major monasteries in Lhasa - underlines the importance of addressing the genuine grievances and aspirations of all Tibetans, both within the present-day Tibet autonomous region as well as in those Tibetan areas now under Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces.

Tibetan exiles were once the dominant voice calling for change, as repression forced many citizens in Tibet to remain silent. Now the opposite is happening: Our brethren in Tibet are inspiring the Tibetans in diaspora. I salute the courage of my compatriots, who, through risking their lives and their freedom, have exposed the bankruptcy of China's Tibet policy and the strength of Tibetan identity.

Even in such a tragic situation, His Holiness has not compromised his principled stand on nonviolence. He also believes that both the Tibetan and the Chinese sides should not give up hope, but rather take the crisis as a challenge to find a mutually beneficial solution to restore peace and stability in Tibet.

No one could pretend that if our next round of discussions with the Chinese leadership were to be held now, it would be business as usual given the scale of the crackdown and the fact that protests are continuing almost daily in Tibet.

I am sure even our Chinese counterparts would also agree that the present emergency situation in various parts of Tibet must be resolved before we can really talk about the future. It is imperative that those governments advising both sides to continue with the dialogue process ask the Chinese leadership to provide assurance of real and concrete progress in the dialogue process.

We are profoundly moved that several Chinese intellectuals have bravely raised their voices in China in response to the way Beijing is handling development in Tibet.

Far-sighted individuals within China recognize that Beijing's Tibet policy is at a turning point, and that the Dalai Lama has a critical and historic role to play.

President Hu Jintao now has an unprecedented opportunity to transform what will otherwise be a dark legacy on Tibet to one that is more appropriate for an emerging superpower that seeks the respect of the international community.

Rather than listening to vested interests whose actions have led to the downfall of quite a few leaders in the past, it will be beneficial to all concerned if he were to heed saner voices within China which are calling for a review of China's Tibet policy. The world is watching.

Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari is the Dalai Lama's chief representative in talks with Beijing.

Turning point for Tibet - International Herald Tribune

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

China vows trouble-free torch run despite unrest

Beijing, April 5 (Reuters): Tibet’s Communist Party chief promised a trouble-free Olympic torch relay through the region, even as security forces struggled to stamp out violence in a nearby ethnic Tibetan area.

Just 125 days before the Olympic Games begin in Beijing, the evening news featured Tibetans saying they were pleased with China’s development policies.

State-run television also ran a long programme on the life of the Dalai Lama.

In Paris, French human rights minister Rama Yade said President Nicolas Sarkozy would not attend the opening ceremony of the Games unless China opened talks with the Dalai Lama.

She said she understood the emotions sparked by Tibet and urged China to live up to its promises to promote human rights.

Many western nations have urged Beijing to open a dialogue with the Tibetan leader, but China has rejected the idea and accused him of orchestrating the violence and pursuing Tibetan independence. The Dalai Lama says he wants only autonomy.

Chinese security forces have locked down Tibet and neigbouring provinces to quell anti-Chinese protests and riots that started in Lhasa in mid-March. But as recently as Thursday night, eight people died when rioting hit an overwhelmingly Tibetan area of Sichuan province, according to the International Campaign for Tibet, a group based in Washington which backs self-determination for the region.

Police fired on a crowd of locals and Buddhist monks after monks at the Tongkor monastery in Ganzi (Garze) Prefecture were held by police searching for images of the Dalai Lama, the Campaign said on its website (International Campaign for Tibet: Home).

The monastery is home to 350 monks, according to its website (Ê×Ò³ - ¶«¹ÈËÂ). Phone calls to the monastery and local government offices were not answered. An earlier report on the riot by China’s official Xinhua news agency said an official had been injured.

Despite the tension, the hardline Tibet Communist Party secretary, Zhang Qingli, vowed a “faultless” passage for the Olympic Games torch when it passes through the region in the coming weeks. “Officials and masses from all ethnic groups must raise ethnic solidarity and make the successful passage of the torch through Tibet a heavy and glorious responsibility,” Zhang said.

The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | International | China vows trouble-free torch run despite unrest

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

From The Sunday Times
April 6, 2008

China struggles to quell Tibet rebels

A PICTURE is emerging of desperate and prolonged Tibetan resistance despite the huge scale of China’s military operation across the mountainous region that one ancient poet called “a place where snow lions dance”.

The Chinese press focused yesterday on a campaign to whip up resentment against the foreign media as reports outside China spoke of at least eight unarmed Tibetans shot dead by paramilitary police.

Scraps of evidence collected by exiles, campaigners, military analysts and daring witnesses inside Tibet all point to the conclusion that China can subdue the Tibetans but cannot win the spiritual war.

There is also new evidence this weekend in eyewitness accounts provided to The Sunday Times of the spread of unrest among Muslims in the vast province of Xinjiang, which borders Tibet.

These are the two most turbulent regions in the People’s Republic and a simultaneous crisis in both of them would present the Chinese leadership with the most serious challenge it has faced since 1989.

Piecing together official statements with accounts reaching Tibetans in exile, the size of the Tibet operation suggests that the Chinese are having to hold down dozens of villages, man hundreds of checkpoints and retain control of more than 100 important monasteries and shrines.

China has committed the key 52nd and 55th divisions of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), dressed soldiers up as paramilitary police and employed Marxist psychological warfare tactics to break the Tibetan resistance.

Most of the security forces are Han Chinese from the farmlands of eastern China, untrained for hard work at high altitudes on the Tibetan plateau.

Thousands of regular troops backed by armoured vehicles have deployed to support the police, patrolling roads in a vast area stretching from the Himalayan border with India to the provinces of southwestern China. “No military machine on earth is designed to do that permanently,” commented a foreign military attaché.

So far China’s top leadership, the nine-man standing committee of the politburo, has thrown its support behind the PLA’s iron-fisted response. The prospect of talks with the Dalai Lama seems unlikely.

Zhou Yongkang, the security chief, and Li Changchun, the Communist party’s head propagandist, are said to have persuaded the rest of the standing committee that China can win in Tibet and in the arena of world opinion.


On the propaganda front, the farcical results of a conducted tour for journalists to a temple in Lhasa, where monks wept and pleaded for freedom, suggest that official plans to reopen Tibet to tourists on May 1 look distinctly optimistic.


In terms of what China calls “stability”, Tibet remains volatile. The fresh violence broke out near a military headquarters at Kangding which controls the passes between the Tibetan plateau and the city of Chengdu.

The state news agency conceded that a “riot” broke out in Kardze, west of Kangding, in which a government official was seriously wounded.

However, reporters for the Tibetan service of Radio Free Asia found witnesses who said that one monk and seven lay people had been shot after the police banned pictures of the Dalai Lama and tried to force people to criticise him.

According to Urgen Tenzin, director of the Indian-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, the number of dead could be as high as 15.

The officials had not only demanded that all photographs and posters of the Dalai Lama be destroyed but also that all monks denounce their spiritual leader. “Skirmishes” broke out when officials began room-to-room searches in a monastery. Two monks, Tsultrim Tenzin and Yeshe Nyima, were arrested when they protested at Chinese officials throwing pictures of the Dalai Lama on the floor.

This intensified the protest, with more than 300 monks and several hundred Tibetan villagers demonstrating close to where the monks were being held.

Police opened fire on a crowd of Tibetans at Nyatso Monastery in Dawu, west of Chengdu, on Saturday at midday after lay people joined monks in a religious observance. The police intervened and the situation developed into a protest. It is believed that at least five Tibetans were hit. Injured monks and civilians were unable to get medical treatment.

It was a sketch of the nightmare that unites the Chinese leadership in the fear that any show of weakness will embolden its numerous enemies. They range from all the losers in China’s economic upheaval to followers of the banned Falun Gong meditation group, Tibetans and Muslims.

The Sunday Times has obtained the first independent confirmation of the outbreak of protest in China’s restive western province of Xinjiang, which is home to the Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority. Hundreds of Muslim women, many with their babies, are still in detention after Chinese security forces broke up a protest led by mothers calling for human rights in the remote Silk Road city of Hotan.


Eyewitnesses spoke of an unprecedented scene in the grand bazaar of Hotan on March 23, when veiled women advanced holding their infants in the air, defying the paramilitary police to open fire.

“At first some people came past handing out leaflets and then a group of women in Arabian-style clothes and veils came by, some of them with their babies in their arms,” said a Han Chinese resident of the town.

“They were surrounded by the armed police, then thrown into trucks and driven away. Even those who weren’t marching were rounded up before the police cleared the streets.” Between 700 and 1,000 people, the majority of them women, had been arrested, witnesses estimated.

The Muslims were apparently emboldened by news of the uprising in Tibet, just to the south of Hotan beyond the Kunlun mountains. The demonstrations were set off by the death in police custody of a prominent local philanthropist and trader in jade, for which the city is famous.

The body of the man, 38-year-old Mutallip Hajim, was handed back to his family on March 3 by the police, who said he had died of heart trouble and ordered his immediate burial.

However, protests spread to other towns as Muslims called on the authorities to stop torture, abandon plans to restrict the veil and free political prisoners, Radio Free Asia reported.

Chinese officials said that “terrorists, splittists and religious extremists” had tried to “stage a riot” in Hotan.

Last month China claimed to have foiled a “terrorist plot” to attack the Olympic Games after raiding a militant hideout in Urumqi, the provincial capital.

China struggles to quell Tibet rebels - Times Online

 

[gpit]

In the past several thousand years, there have been countless testy issues confronting the Chinese. What I am telling our "good-heartedly", despondently worrying Indian friends is that:"Stop clownishly worrying about China. The civilization has been stood in the East for 5000+ years. Instead, try to worry about not to annoy your northern neighbor for your trade's sake: your elites are greedy, they need more goods/money."

 

[gpit]

Sarcastically, all sorts of absurd activities, such as trying to snatch the sacred torch from a handicapped but brave girl by brutal force, have further consolidated CPC leadership in China.

CPC is concerned about what people within China view it more than what Westerners view it... The West goes bankrupt in front of Chinese young generations... whined some Westerners.

A truly interesting phenomenon that will surely upset very much the hostile forces against China.

 

[lexislichan]

our chinese love peace,welcome ppl from the rest of world to china living and travelling.
we also want share our economy performance with others.but why why why western media and government treat us like this.they are cheats and liar.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Sarcastically, all sorts of absurd activities, such as trying to snatch the sacred torch from a handicapped but brave girl by brutal force, have further consolidated CPC leadership in China.

CPC is concerned about what people within China view it more than what Westerners view it... The West goes bankrupt in front of Chinese young generations... whined some Westerners.

A truly interesting phenomenon that will surely upset very much the hostile forces against China.

Very profound.

 

[silverash]

i hope verything wiil be true~~and no body like lies!

 

[Sino-PakFriendship]

White Christian (USA, Western Europe) and its Minions (Indian expansionists, to Tibet; Korean expansionists, to Manchuria; Japanese expansionists, to Taiwan, Dalai Group, East Turkistan Terrorists) must go to Hell!

 

[vish]

Gee... if the Tibetans are so evil, why is it that the CCP is so chicken about allowing media freedom and access?