How the World see Tibet uprising
Tibetans are rising up.Lhasa is tense.Protests culminated into riots have spread to Labrang and Machu, Repkong and Ngapa in the Tibetan province of Amdo (Gansu, Qinghai and Sichuan respectively), Lithang in Kham province (Sichuan) and Phenpo in TAR.
Tibet an ancient Buddhist spiritual heritage practicing the religion from ages finds their freedom curtailed with Chinese authorities taking control of their acts and declaring Tibet not an independent but part of China. Cultural differences and Tibet authorities restricting the freedom of the people and their way of life has given rise to the modern Tibetan youths that there has been a sense that something angry was brewing in their minds.
Tibetans living in exile in India have launched a March to Tibet as part of the Tibetan People's Uprising Movement. This historic Movement aims to revive the spirit of the Tibetan national uprising of 1959, and by engaging in nonviolent direct action, bring about an end to China's illegal occupation of Tibet.
Tsering Topgyal,a Tibetan, is writing a PhD thesis on the Sino-Tibetan conflict at the London School of Economics.Explains the scenario,
Since 1989, China has implemented a hard-line set of policies towards Tibetans inside Tibet and towards the Dalai Lama. The hard-line faction within Chinese officialdom pressed for ruthless suppression of dissent and unbridled economic development, ostensibly to buy Tibetan loyalty. It is waiting for the Tibetan issue to die with the septuagenarian Dalai Lama and has sidelined the moderate faction that argued for engagement with him. These protests show that the hard-line policy has managed neither to intimidate Tibetans nor to win their loyalty.
Beijing's counter-productive strategy of rendering the Dalai Lama irrelevant has backfired. Beijing has weakened the one authority that can rein in and persuade Tibetans to remain within China. The Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile have been following the Middle Way policy that advocates Tibetan autonomy through uncompromised non-violence and dialogue. Since dialogue resumed in September 2002, they asked Tibetan exiles not to protest against visiting Chinese leaders.
These unpopular appeals were also made before the 10 March anniversaries. During the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony, the Dalai Lama assured China that he would use his "authority and influence" to induce Tibetans to live as Chinese citizens. The Chinese , led by Tibet's hard-line Party Secretary, Zhang Qingli, stepped up the campaign of vilification against the Dalai Lama, describing him as a "false religious leader". After raising expectation among Tibetans, Beijing started to indicate in 2005 that it was not interested in meaningful negotiations. The Dalai Lama was vilified, his representatives not even formally recognised and his Middle Way policy, which has scaled down Tibetan demands even further from the unpopular concessions in the 1980s, was dismissed as "old wine in a new bottle".
After six rounds of dialogue, which the Tibetan officials handled with great delicacy, nothing was achieved. The Dalai Lama conceded a week ago that "on the fundamental issue, there has been no concrete result at all". This was fodder for those
Tibetans who consider the Dalai Lama as their beloved leader but argue that complete independence is the only guarantee for the survival of Tibetan identity, and that action-oriented strategies should be used. It is not in the nature of the Chinese regime, they argue, to negotiate sincerely with a leader that advocates peace and a people that does not harm China's national interests.Unfortunately, because China does not tolerate even peaceful Tibetan dissent and Tibetans see the Government as the facilitator of Chinese colonialism, some protests in Tibet have turned violent against Han and Hui Chinese. The protests do not, however, entirely negate the Dalai Lama's approach. Just as the Burmese monks pressured the military junta to negotiate with Aung San Suu Kyi, the Tibetan protests strengthen the Dalai Lama's negotiating position. The riots can also be seen in the light of a quiet and apparently weak child, who has endured incessant beatings and humiliation and faces an uncertain future, finally fighting back against the playground bully. The tussle will go on for a long time and the outcome is uncertain.Beijing will seek to avoid concessions and will crack down ruthlessly unless the international community takes a far more robust stance. The Tibetan struggle will go on for generations unless a solution is reached with the current Dalai Lama.
Free Tibet Independence Movements:
Lhadon A Tibetan woman born and raised in Canada.Lhadon Tethong has traveled the world, working to build a powerful youth movement for Tibetan independence. She has spoken to countless groups about the situation in Tibet, most notably to a crowd of 66,000 at the 1998 Tibetan Freedom Concert in Washington, D.C. She first became involved with Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) in 1996, when she founded a chapter at University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Since then, Lhadon has been a leading force in many strategic campaigns, including the unprecedented victory against China’s World Bank project in 2000.
Lhadon is a frequent spokesperson for the Tibetan independence movement, and serves as co-chair of the Olympics Campaign Working Group of the International Tibet Support Network. She has worked for SFT since March 1999 and currently serves as the Executive Director of Students for a Free Tibet International.
Students for a Free Tibet works in solidarity with the Tibetan people in their struggle for freedom and independence. SFT is a chapter-based network of young people and activists around the world. Through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action, SFT campaigns for Tibetans’ fundamental right to political freedom. SFT’s role is to empower and train youth as leaders in the worldwide movement for social justice.
Quotes from Lhadon:
“The Olympics is an opportunity to push China for change, and it’s our responsibility to take the mask off the face of the Beijing regime,” says Lhadon Tethong, executive director of Students for a Free Tibet in Katmandu. “These four detained activists are just the beginning of a wave of protest” leading up to the 2008 Games.
Lhadon writes, http://beijingwideopen.org/2008/03/15/watching-the-tibetan-uprising-spread-around-the-world/
Protests are spreading like wildfire inside Tibet. I am getting reports right now as I write this about gunshots in Karma Kunsang in Lhasa. Thousands are protesting in Labrang. People are desperate. Calls are coming from Tibet pleading for help. By phone today someone said:
Protests are spreading like wildfire inside Tibet. I am getting reports right now as I write this about gunshots in Karma Kunsang in Lhasa. Thousands are protesting in Labrang. People are desperate. Calls are coming from Tibet pleading for help. By phone today someone said:
“The Chinese shot at everybody in sight and blood and piles of corpses are lying around the main temple Tsuglakhang in Lhasa. Many people have been put into prison where they are being beaten. Tibetans are being forced to beat up their own countrymen. Many Tibetans are refusing to do so.”
Support protests for those inside Tibet are spreading around the world. In Delhi, 50 Tibetans were placed under custody after storming the Chinese Embassy yesterday and seven people were arrested outside the UN General Assembly building in New York City. Another 3 were arrested in Chicago at a candle light vigil. In Nepal, protests turned violent as police clashed with about 1,000 protesters. and twelve monks were injured. And earlier today, 7 people were arrested at the Chinese Embassy in Sydney.
Here in Dharamsala, hundreds are protesting. A second wave of Tibetans restarted the March for Tibet this morning where the original 100 marchers were arrested on Thursday. And a spontaneous march of 300 Tibetans set out from McLeod Ganj today at the main temple and is now nearing the Dehra, where the original marchers are imprisoned.
And of course the Chinese are freaking out. They are so angry and spewing the most ridiculous rhetoric against the Dalai Lama:
“The Dalai Lama and his clique have never for a day refrained from violence and terror. His childhood teacher, an Austrian, was a Nazi, and it’s no secret that for quite a long time after he fled to India, he kept a force, armed by his western patron, for separatist activities. ”
Maybe someone should tell them it just makes them look like delusional idiots to any rational person living in the free world.
This is truly a People’s Uprising Movement.
For Tibet to be integral part of China,Chinese authorities must address their grievances and Tibetans must find themselves in their mainstreams.In case majority OF Tibetans EITHER DO NO FALL in their streams and wants autonomous state or special state then the modalities must be worked out.
Nksagar adds:
During my visit to city of Tibet government in exile in the year 2006,seat of power of Tibet freedom both political and spiritual,"McLeodGunj" and was greatly fascinated by their spiritual quest,people with such noble virtues are found in fix, in state of flux about their homeland,their culture shattered and their immemorial belief tattered but their spirit and efforts runs high on their agenda,a spiritual community finds their right infringed since 1959 and International community watch these noble ones with helplessness in hands of Communist China,who restricts freedom of thought and actions in their soil.International human rights has no answers for various states atrocities on their citizens in these regards.
Nksagar wrote on March 17, 2008 - 6:02 am
Tibet an ancient Buddhist spiritual heritage practicing the religion from ages finds their freedom curtailed with Chinese authorities taking control of their acts and declaring Tibet not an independent but part of China. Cultural differences and Tibet authorities restricting the freedom of the people and their way of life has given rise to the modern Tibetan youths that there has been a sense that something angry was brewing in their minds.
Tibetans living in exile in India have launched a March to Tibet as part of the Tibetan People's Uprising Movement. This historic Movement aims to revive the spirit of the Tibetan national uprising of 1959, and by engaging in nonviolent direct action, bring about an end to China's illegal occupation of Tibet.
Tsering Topgyal,a Tibetan, is writing a PhD thesis on the Sino-Tibetan conflict at the London School of Economics.Explains the scenario,
Since 1989, China has implemented a hard-line set of policies towards Tibetans inside Tibet and towards the Dalai Lama. The hard-line faction within Chinese officialdom pressed for ruthless suppression of dissent and unbridled economic development, ostensibly to buy Tibetan loyalty. It is waiting for the Tibetan issue to die with the septuagenarian Dalai Lama and has sidelined the moderate faction that argued for engagement with him. These protests show that the hard-line policy has managed neither to intimidate Tibetans nor to win their loyalty.
Beijing's counter-productive strategy of rendering the Dalai Lama irrelevant has backfired. Beijing has weakened the one authority that can rein in and persuade Tibetans to remain within China. The Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile have been following the Middle Way policy that advocates Tibetan autonomy through uncompromised non-violence and dialogue. Since dialogue resumed in September 2002, they asked Tibetan exiles not to protest against visiting Chinese leaders.
These unpopular appeals were also made before the 10 March anniversaries. During the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony, the Dalai Lama assured China that he would use his "authority and influence" to induce Tibetans to live as Chinese citizens. The Chinese , led by Tibet's hard-line Party Secretary, Zhang Qingli, stepped up the campaign of vilification against the Dalai Lama, describing him as a "false religious leader". After raising expectation among Tibetans, Beijing started to indicate in 2005 that it was not interested in meaningful negotiations. The Dalai Lama was vilified, his representatives not even formally recognised and his Middle Way policy, which has scaled down Tibetan demands even further from the unpopular concessions in the 1980s, was dismissed as "old wine in a new bottle".
After six rounds of dialogue, which the Tibetan officials handled with great delicacy, nothing was achieved. The Dalai Lama conceded a week ago that "on the fundamental issue, there has been no concrete result at all". This was fodder for those
Tibetans who consider the Dalai Lama as their beloved leader but argue that complete independence is the only guarantee for the survival of Tibetan identity, and that action-oriented strategies should be used. It is not in the nature of the Chinese regime, they argue, to negotiate sincerely with a leader that advocates peace and a people that does not harm China's national interests.Unfortunately, because China does not tolerate even peaceful Tibetan dissent and Tibetans see the Government as the facilitator of Chinese colonialism, some protests in Tibet have turned violent against Han and Hui Chinese. The protests do not, however, entirely negate the Dalai Lama's approach. Just as the Burmese monks pressured the military junta to negotiate with Aung San Suu Kyi, the Tibetan protests strengthen the Dalai Lama's negotiating position. The riots can also be seen in the light of a quiet and apparently weak child, who has endured incessant beatings and humiliation and faces an uncertain future, finally fighting back against the playground bully. The tussle will go on for a long time and the outcome is uncertain.Beijing will seek to avoid concessions and will crack down ruthlessly unless the international community takes a far more robust stance. The Tibetan struggle will go on for generations unless a solution is reached with the current Dalai Lama.
Free Tibet Independence Movements:
Lhadon A Tibetan woman born and raised in Canada.Lhadon Tethong has traveled the world, working to build a powerful youth movement for Tibetan independence. She has spoken to countless groups about the situation in Tibet, most notably to a crowd of 66,000 at the 1998 Tibetan Freedom Concert in Washington, D.C. She first became involved with Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) in 1996, when she founded a chapter at University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Since then, Lhadon has been a leading force in many strategic campaigns, including the unprecedented victory against China’s World Bank project in 2000.
Lhadon is a frequent spokesperson for the Tibetan independence movement, and serves as co-chair of the Olympics Campaign Working Group of the International Tibet Support Network. She has worked for SFT since March 1999 and currently serves as the Executive Director of Students for a Free Tibet International.
Students for a Free Tibet works in solidarity with the Tibetan people in their struggle for freedom and independence. SFT is a chapter-based network of young people and activists around the world. Through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action, SFT campaigns for Tibetans’ fundamental right to political freedom. SFT’s role is to empower and train youth as leaders in the worldwide movement for social justice.
Quotes from Lhadon:
“The Olympics is an opportunity to push China for change, and it’s our responsibility to take the mask off the face of the Beijing regime,” says Lhadon Tethong, executive director of Students for a Free Tibet in Katmandu. “These four detained activists are just the beginning of a wave of protest” leading up to the 2008 Games.
Lhadon writes, http://beijingwideopen.org/2008/03/15/watching-the-tibetan-uprising-spread-around-the-world/
Protests are spreading like wildfire inside Tibet. I am getting reports right now as I write this about gunshots in Karma Kunsang in Lhasa. Thousands are protesting in Labrang. People are desperate. Calls are coming from Tibet pleading for help. By phone today someone said:
Protests are spreading like wildfire inside Tibet. I am getting reports right now as I write this about gunshots in Karma Kunsang in Lhasa. Thousands are protesting in Labrang. People are desperate. Calls are coming from Tibet pleading for help. By phone today someone said:
“The Chinese shot at everybody in sight and blood and piles of corpses are lying around the main temple Tsuglakhang in Lhasa. Many people have been put into prison where they are being beaten. Tibetans are being forced to beat up their own countrymen. Many Tibetans are refusing to do so.”
Support protests for those inside Tibet are spreading around the world. In Delhi, 50 Tibetans were placed under custody after storming the Chinese Embassy yesterday and seven people were arrested outside the UN General Assembly building in New York City. Another 3 were arrested in Chicago at a candle light vigil. In Nepal, protests turned violent as police clashed with about 1,000 protesters. and twelve monks were injured. And earlier today, 7 people were arrested at the Chinese Embassy in Sydney.
Here in Dharamsala, hundreds are protesting. A second wave of Tibetans restarted the March for Tibet this morning where the original 100 marchers were arrested on Thursday. And a spontaneous march of 300 Tibetans set out from McLeod Ganj today at the main temple and is now nearing the Dehra, where the original marchers are imprisoned.
And of course the Chinese are freaking out. They are so angry and spewing the most ridiculous rhetoric against the Dalai Lama:
“The Dalai Lama and his clique have never for a day refrained from violence and terror. His childhood teacher, an Austrian, was a Nazi, and it’s no secret that for quite a long time after he fled to India, he kept a force, armed by his western patron, for separatist activities. ”
Maybe someone should tell them it just makes them look like delusional idiots to any rational person living in the free world.
This is truly a People’s Uprising Movement.
For Tibet to be integral part of China,Chinese authorities must address their grievances and Tibetans must find themselves in their mainstreams.In case majority OF Tibetans EITHER DO NO FALL in their streams and wants autonomous state or special state then the modalities must be worked out.
Nksagar adds:
During my visit to city of Tibet government in exile in the year 2006,seat of power of Tibet freedom both political and spiritual,"McLeodGunj" and was greatly fascinated by their spiritual quest,people with such noble virtues are found in fix, in state of flux about their homeland,their culture shattered and their immemorial belief tattered but their spirit and efforts runs high on their agenda,a spiritual community finds their right infringed since 1959 and International community watch these noble ones with helplessness in hands of Communist China,who restricts freedom of thought and actions in their soil.International human rights has no answers for various states atrocities on their citizens in these regards.
Nksagar wrote on March 17, 2008 - 6:02 am
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