Interview with a Han Chinese woman who discovered that the Tibetan people are different than the image propagated by the Communist Party.
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Epoch Times – The Distorted Image of Tibet (Part I)
Posted in China, Tibet, tagged China, Chinese, communist, Tibet, Tibetan on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tibet report – Chinese Government à la G.Orwells 1984
Posted in China, Tibet, tagged China, Dalai Lama, Tibet on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
vLog with Tibetan Connection Radio reporter Lhakpa Kyizom about staged news events, violence, continued repression and a new Chinese Policy implemented to gain control of selecting the next Dalai Lama.
Chinese Policy: “Order Nr.5 is all the reincarnations of the high lamas are selected by the Tibetans (…) but now the Chinese they want to control [...]
Forty five years
Posted in China, Tibet, spirituality, tagged China, Dalai Lama, Kham, Nepal, Tibet on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Forty five years ago I came in direct contact with Tibetan culture for the first time. Prior to that I had seen Tibetan caravans traveling through Tansen, Palpa, Nepal. I was well aware of the situation on the other side of the Himalayan mountains and I had even been in the audience when the Dalai [...]
Lhasa Leaders Sacked
Posted in China, Tibet, tagged Lhasa, Tibet on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An article in the Guardian today reported that two of the top people in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) have been sacked – Wang Binyi, police chief and Qin Yizhi, deputy governor of the region. Qin made the world media last summer when the Olympic torch relay went through Lhasa for saying the Communist party [...]
Wedding Pictures in an Earthquake
Posted in China, tagged earthquake, eye witness, Sichuan, wedding pictures on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another friend of mine, John Chaffee, who is a professor of Chinese Studies sent the following series of pictures that were sent to him by a Taiwanese friend. The friend was taking pictures of a young couple at the White Deer Chapel in Pengzhau, Sichuan when the earthquake struck. The photographer was able to keep [...]
The Power of Nature
Posted in China, tagged earthquake, Sichuan on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Gao Li Qiang sent another eye witness account – but not his own. This time it was a friend of his who went into the mountains after the earthquake to see what had happened there. Gao writes the commentary for the following pictures:
The following below pictures were not taken by me - they show another face [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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, [...]
