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Everybody knows that there's a Lama revolt in Tibet, China right?


Read the news link first:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080317/ap_on_re_as/china_tibet_81

http://english.china.com/zh_cn/news/china/11020307/20080317/14729826.html


Please share your views on how to improve the situation.

Right now the relationship between Lama worshippers and inland China is really can not be described. I wish for Tibetians and inland China be in good terms again. And whomever is in charge of the Tibetian violence should be stopped. I personally believe that Tibet is always part of China, no matter how I look it. It's only the Dalai leader who's at fault causing the divide.
I also think that the Chinese government's belief is that the only way to run a country is through guns. Given the population of China, it is really hard to run a country with that many people. Maybe they need to loosen up the human rights infringement part a bit...

Edit from Niph to ANYONE WHO IS IN LONDON OR THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND: There's a pro-Chinese Tibet march from Trafalgar Square to the Chinese Embassy on Sunday 23rd March... I might go..

This thread has been stickied until the furore dies down, as a source of trying-to-be-balanced information for anyone who wants it. Currently most Western sources are fairly biased, even my beloved BBC, so be careful about what you read and believe. Watch the YT vid, it's good. <3

CNN transcript of interview with last Western journalist in Tibet

Thread in Extended Discussion: Political

Times article about situation with riots

De-stickied since.. uh.. the furore has died down? xDD;;

KITTY - and the FB group - IS IN THE NEWS! XD

Trouble in Japan
China to talk with Dalai side

Cnn gets sued.
I'm sure most of you have seen these on the facebook group, but for those that don't use facebook.
Goons and Thugs. Cnn Insults China and Chinese.
Petition for a formal apology from CNN instead of a lame coverup and for the commenter to be fired.

Totally agree. With everything.

Facebookers: join.

Crush all unrest and crush them without mercy. Who gives a damn what ignorant westerners think. Let them wail and flail all they want, give them the satisfaction of crying foul while showing them that, despite all their crying, they can't do jack about it.

Pure opinion, if they want to be separated from China deal with the political people not the citizens. I find it unfair and disgusting that they are taking it out on the commoners who have zero power in terms of breaking them away from the main Country.

And the CIA now is making them worse.

Sorry but I don't quite understand your post mini. What Chinese military? The PLA has not yet been involved in the riot. It was the violent protesters who were killing people and smashing shops and looting goods. How can you be trying to justify that and say the only reason the world isn't doing anything about it is cause China is a world power is beyond me. Perhaps you should get your facts straight before making accusations?

Ah yes, "free" tibet. That can't be very necessary now right? I mean it's been decades, it's not as if the communist invaded Tibet and forced them to live in poverty. From what I've see, the Tibetans had it pretty good under the chinese gov't. Though I'm not completely sure. Besides isn't part of Tibet under Indian control as well? Why not get independence from India too? And as an american citizen, I would like to know; What is the CIA doing in Tibet? We have enough issues in the states without getting involved with other countries.
p.s. I think it's because the olympics are coming up is probably why this negative tibet attention is being aired.

You must have misread me. I never said the chinese military was responsible for the revolt; the idiot Tibetan radicals and protesters were definitely to blame. Certainly the Chinese government has the right to crush protests and revolt in any part of its territory. However, the way it's doing it could have been done better. People in the west still remember Tiananmen Square and the events in Tibet right now are being portrayed in the same light by the media. Both sides could easily come to a compromise agreement that prevents the violence from escalating and drawing world attention.

Niph: Of course I realize that the violence was caused by Tibetan protesters and of course I concede that some sort of crackdown and arrests against these protesters is absolutely neccessary. But surely you must understand that what the western media think about the events in Tibet is of absolutely no consequence. It's the governments of western countries who have the power to respond to what's happening. And they have definitely turned a blind eye, or at least have done nothing to respond. That's certainly the case here in Australia, with our mandarin-speaking Prime Minister.

And the last one for Kitty: China being a world power definitely gives it the immunity from any international action. Just look at western responses to the turmoil in Pakistan and Myanmar: the EU, US and Australia have all expressed major concern or have condemned the violence going on in these two countries, and have actually made siginifigant responses, even if they are symbolic, like Australia boycotting from any cricket tour of Pakistan or the UN sending an envoy to Myanmar.