Below is something from Joey Ayoub on Facebook. He’s included a document written by several well-know Chinese dissidents that I thought worth repeating. Please read the following document realizing that there are people inside China who don’t automatically believe the government’s propaganda. This document accentuates how effective the Chinese media is in controlling what most [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Voices of Reason from Inside China
Posted in China, Tibet, tagged China, Chinese intellectuals, communism, human rights, Olympics, propaganda, Tibet, Tibetan situation, torch on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Olympic torch fiasco
Posted in China, Tibet, tagged bunkers, China, great wall, Olympic, protest, Tibet, torch on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Chinese people have put so much nationalistic pride into the Olympics and the Torch Relay. And now that protests have marred the glorious moment, they are turning their hurt pride and anger against the rest of the world. The Chinese government, taking this as an excuse, will crackdown harder than ever before on dissidents, [...]
The Folly of Force
Posted in Buddhism, Tibet, spirituality, tagged Asia Times Online, China, Dalai Lama, defining issue, folly, force, Kham, Mt Yarla, Sichuan, society, The Great Wall, Tibet, Tibetan on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Its not working. Never has, never will.
No amount of preaching and moralizing will force things to happen. Nor will the use of force when your preaching and “you shouldings” or even “let’s all” (Confucianism/communism) fails.
People, especially the rugged, open-air Tibetan nomads, don’t respond to the group-mind of the hypnotized.
Societies like the Chinese have functioned for [...]
“Old Tibet no Shangri-La”
Posted in Tibet, Uncategorized, tagged communist, Dalai Lama, democracy, Tibet on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An article appeared in The Atlanta Journal Constitution written by a Taiwanese student, Chi-Wen Yao, at University of Georgia. It is called “Old Tibet no Shangri-La” and points out, rightly, that old Tibet was a theocratic feudal system that abused human rights. The monasteries were the owners of huge tracts of land and owned the [...]
Han Chinese students educated in Lhasa reflect on the situation
Posted in Tibet, tagged China, ethnic culture, Lhasa, Tibet, Tibetan culture on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I found this article written by a Han Chinese student. His university is in Lhasa, I think, and he writes – and quotes another student article – about what is happening to Lhasa and Tibetan culture. It is a passionate plea for recognition of what is happening to Tibetan culture at the hands of mercenary [...]
The Dalai Lama’s initial view on communism.
Posted in Tibet, tagged China, Dalai Lama, Tibet on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In an interview with the Dalai Lama in TIME Asia - SEPTEMBER 27, 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 12 about his escape from Tibet in 1959, he indicates that his initial impression of Marxism, once he was able to study it, was rather positive. But the reality of “liberation” by the PLA was quite a different [...]
