Helping Tibet

[pk]

You are probably right, and I was being a tad flippant.

Having been lectured on "non-violence" for a generation by people in Free Tibet t shirts and waving Free Tibet flags, I find it rather amusing to see Tibetans burning out Chinese shop keepers and getting stuck in to riot police.

Clearly the Tibetan people don't know how to do the right thing unless they have some western pacifists telling them.........

You don't entertain the possibility that these Tibetan "radicals" who destroyed the shops were in fact Chinese, looking to create a situation in order to provide a pretext for sudden military presence?

They got there rather quick, the Chinese, don't you think?

 

[Jazzz]

You don't entertain the possibility that these Tibetan "radicals" who destroyed the shops were in fact Chinese, looking to create a situation in order to provide a pretext for sudden military presence?

They got there rather quick, the Chinese, don't you think?

Oldest trick in the book, ain't it...

 

[gentlegreen]

Been some piss-poor journalism going on too apparently :-

 

[Yossarian]

You don't entertain the possibility that these Tibetan "radicals" who destroyed the shops were in fact Chinese, looking to create a situation in order to provide a pretext for sudden military presence?

They got there rather quick, the Chinese, don't you think?

There's plenty of Chinese garrisons all over Tibet already - they don't have to send away anywhere for there to be a sudden military presence, and I very much doubt they'd bother manufacturing incidents for a pretext.

 

[Jessiedog]

There's plenty of Chinese garrisons all over Tibet already - they don't have to send away anywhere for there to be a sudden military presence, and I very much doubt they'd bother manufacturing incidents for a pretext.

Indeed.


My understanding is that something has been brewing since Autumn last year and the authorities were aware of it. "Security" in Tibet - and particularly in and around Lhasa - has been undergoing an increasing tightening over the last few weeks/months. I recently read an account from a foreigner who went through 22 police checkpoints/roadblocks on the main road into Lhasa (in Oct/Nov 2007).

And there seems little evidence of Han Chinese masquerading as Tibetans.


Has everyone seen the latest from yesterday's "guided tour" of Lhasa?

About 27 HK and foreign correspondents were being shown around the city in a carefully managed tour organised by the authorities - the first foreign journos' allowed in for a couple of weeks. At Jokhang Monastery, about 30 younger monks burst in, some in tears, and argued - in the Tibetan language and then in Mandarin - that the Chinese Govt. was lying and that there was no freedom in Tibet.

The monks were escorted away by the authorities.





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