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Demonstrators Worldwide Protest Crackdown; Beijing Threatens "Stern" Punishment If Activists Do Not Surrender
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- Rather than arguing about who is better and who is not. I think we need to find out what is happening right in Tibet. Here is something to keep you all updated. Please check out this website www.phayul.com This website is censored in China, so those in China, I am sorry that you wont be able to check it. Your government is discreet about the kind of information you get.
Eight dead bodies brought into Ngaba Kirti Monastery
TCHRD[Sunday, March 16, 2008 19:35]
March 16 - Eight dead bodies have been brought into Ngaba Kirti Monastery according to confirmed information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy. The bodies were brought in from the protest scene in Ngaba County, Sichuan Province. Sources say at least "30 Tibetans felled" after armed troops shot indiscriminately into the peacefully protesting Tibetans. Out of the eight bodies, one has been identified as Lobsang Tashi, a former monk in his mid 20s. The remaining bodies are unidentified at the moment. The monks in Kirti Monastery are currently offering prayers for the deceased.
TCHRD will continue to monitor and update as situation progresses. - Reply to this comment
- Rather than arguing about who is better and who is not. I think we need to find out what is happening right in Tibet. Here is something to keep you all updated. Please check out this website www.phayul.com This website is censored in China, so those in China, I am sorry that you wont be able to check it. Your government is discreet about the kind of information you get.
Eight dead bodies brought into Ngaba Kirti Monastery
TCHRD[Sunday, March 16, 2008 19:35]
March 16 - Eight dead bodies have been brought into Ngaba Kirti Monastery according to confirmed information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy. The bodies were brought in from the protest scene in Ngaba County, Sichuan Province. Sources say at least "30 Tibetans felled" after armed troops shot indiscriminately into the peacefully protesting Tibetans. Out of the eight bodies, one has been identified as Lobsang Tashi, a former monk in his mid 20s. The remaining bodies are unidentified at the moment. The monks in Kirti Monastery are currently offering prayers for the deceased.
TCHRD will continue to monitor and update as situation progresses. - Reply to this comment
- Rather than arguing about who is better and who is not. I think we need to find out what is happening right in Tibet. Here is something to keep you all updated. Please check out this website www.phayul.com This website is censored in China, so those in China, I am sorry that you wont be able to check it. Your government is discreet about the kind of information you get.
Eight dead bodies brought into Ngaba Kirti Monastery
TCHRD[Sunday, March 16, 2008 19:35]
March 16 - Eight dead bodies have been brought into Ngaba Kirti Monastery according to confirmed information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy. The bodies were brought in from the protest scene in Ngaba County, Sichuan Province. Sources say at least "30 Tibetans felled" after armed troops shot indiscriminately into the peacefully protesting Tibetans. Out of the eight bodies, one has been identified as Lobsang Tashi, a former monk in his mid 20s. The remaining bodies are unidentified at the moment. The monks in Kirti Monastery are currently offering prayers for the deceased.
TCHRD will continue to monitor and update as situation progresses. - Reply to this comment
- I am a Chinese, I ''ve read most of the comments above.
Yes, China has many problems,however, but it is changing everyday.
I strongly believe it is wrong to boycott the olympic game holding in China if you really want the world become better. The olympic game is a communication bridge for Chinese and the rest of the world. Most untrust or suspicous comes from misunderstanding or ignorance, the olympic game is an excellent opportunity for the rest of world to know more about China.
It is a bad idea for the Tibet to get independent for the sake of the wellfare of Tibetans.
Without the capital, technology and market, the Tibetan economy will be in difficulty as it will be isolated from the world. If you knows more about Tibet, you will understand Tibet used to be a very poor and backward area where still a slavery society before 1950.
You could compare the living standard of Tibet with his neighbour Nepal or India that Tibetan have a better life than his neighbour''s.So why do you want Tibetan to get independent , do you want them to live in a worse life? - Reply to this comment
- theearthling said, "Ask 95% of the Tibetian people today and they will tell you they are "better off" now than any period in their history..."
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After hearing your self-congratulatory speech about doing one''s homework, I must ask you to do yours.
You certainly cannot persuade many that because the Chinese empire frequently claimed the region, the Tibetans are Chinese subjects. That is to argue that since Visigoths overran Europe at about the same time, we belong today to the Visigoths-- when and if they decide to return to claim us. The logic needs more homework.
Irridentism is not a potent argument for those who would impose their views on another people by force. Always, we must start with what a people wants. And a contrived PRC survey of Tibetans about comfort level is not an arguement for assimilation, but proof even prisoners can play a part in PRC propaganda.
Tibetans do credit the PRC with bringing asphalt highways and rail service. But they also know why-- better to truck in more Chinese troops and settlers, eager to assert their claims of manifest destiny. Remind you of a familiar country? - Reply to this comment
- Taylor2124 does Archie Bunker so well, he lives the role.
And having despaired of Tibetan democracy and independence, Archie insists we are in Iraq to promote Iraqi democracy and independence.
Reassuringly enough, he also will tell us we do not waste $2 billion weekly and 4,000 American lives and tens of thousands wounded for nothing in Iraq.
Yup, he will swear we are wasting them for something-- perhaps Lord Cheney''s friends, who attended his super-secret energy conference. They surely could tell us more.
The Tibetans have no oil to interest Archie, they have only the same principles he claims justify Iraq. - Reply to this comment
- It''s time for all you pundits out there to read your history! If you do so, you will find that the territory known as Tibet has always been a part of the Chinese Empire since Chin times, and the fuedal lords (lamas) were more dispictable than any found in Europe. Through the religion they kept the people downtrodden. Ask 95% of the Tibetian people today and they will tell you they are "better off" now than any period in their history. Do your homework brfore piping off!
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- cneron provides an Editors note to poster Citizen Kane: "I''m afraid your attempt at melodrama falls flat..."
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The stuff CK claims to have written is so contrived and purple, it must be original. It doesn''t meet even the minimal standards of Faux News.
Agitated though CK may be about 911, however, where is CK''s concern about the Bush who did not call even a single meeting of his counter-terrorism group before the attack?
After a full eight months on the job, Bush was unconcerned-- not a detectable heartbeat of awareness, let alone anxiety about airliner hijackings. He spent a lot of time back in Texas, clearing brush on his toy ranch-- more time off than any president in recent memory.
Yet, Bush had plenty of people willing to help him get up to speed. Before Condi Rice got the memo about hijackings, Bush had gotten other warnings from intelligence people on a regular basis-- but still did nothing.
Meanwhile, Paul Wolfowitz was so immersed in the Iraq invasion planning, he had to ask Clarke about what "al Qaeda" meant... - Reply to this comment
- China should invade Texas and impose democracy on Bush.
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- "Will Bush invade China to inflict a Democratic but corporate controlled government upon them?"
- Posted by CBSBlogger at 08:08 PM : Mar 15, 2008
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If you think the Iraq war lasted a long time... - Reply to this comment
Author Thomas Friedman on Obama's Afghanistan plan and the war on terror.
