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Tibet: 50 Years Of Brutal Occupation

Posted by Jon King on Mar 08, 2010

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A naked injustice, an alarming array of sobering statistics, the Beijing Olympics …

What price Tibet in the New Economic World Order…?

Tibet: 50 Years Of Brutal Occupation

By Jon King

The Dalai Lama And Those He Left Behind

March 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising, when 86,000 Tibetans were slaughtered by the occupying Chinese army and the Dalai Lama was forced to flee his homeland.

After a perilous two-week journey across the Himalayas, disguised as a soldier, Tibet’s spiritual leader finally found sanctuary in India. The date was March 31st, 1959. Three days later, on April 3rd, he was granted asylum by the Indian government.

To many around the world this day marked a small victory for freedom and human endeavour, with well-wishers from all corners of the globe welcoming in quiet defiance the news that the Dalai Lama was safe.

But it should not be forgotten also that this day marked the beginning of a 50-year reign of terror for those he left behind—Tibet’s brutalized population, many of whom have suffered appalling atrocities at the hands of their Chinese oppressors over the five decades of the Dalai Lama’s exile.

And worse still is there seems little hope of any foreseeable end to the suffering.

Tibet: 50 Years Of Brutal Occupation

The Sobering Statistics

In the 50 years of China’s brutal occupation of Tibet, more than 6000 monasteries, nunneries and temples, plus their contents, have been summarily destroyed.

Freedom of speech, open press and media, free association, religious expression, political views and ideological opposition to Chinese Communism have all been outlawed, with unspeakable consequences facing those who dare defy the regime.

Open loyalty to the Dalai Lama invokes instant incarceration and torture, often death.

Even today, untold numbers of monks, nuns and other ‘political prisoners’ continue to be held without charge, often in atrocious conditions.

Monks are regularly beaten and tortured, and on occasion, murdered. Nuns have been raped and tortured for as little as singing freedom songs in their cells.

Meanwhile thousands remain on the official ‘missing’ list. And the sobering statistics do not end there.

During the ‘Beijing Olympics Uprising’ in 2008, hundreds of protestors were brutally killed. Thousands more were wounded while an unknown number – some say as many as 10,000+ – were detained in Chinese prison camps and detention centres, where they remain to this day.

Indeed, to judge by past statistics, it’s odds on many of these detainees will never be seen or heard of again.

Tibet: 50 Years Of Brutal Occupation

The Beijing Olympics

Somewhere between invading the Sovereign Territory of Tibet and racking up within its own borders one of the world’s worst human rights records, China still found time to host the 2008 Olympic Games.

And they managed to persuade the West’s political leaders to attend.

Indeed, despite the pitched battles which claimed the lives of so many on the streets of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, in March and April 2008;

Despite the millions in countries the world over who took to the streets and protested in solidarity with the oppressed and brutalized Tibetan people;

Despite sustained calls for the West’s political leaders to make a stand against China’s shocking human rights record and its barbaric treatment of Tibet’s indigenous population:

The Games went ahead as planned and the leaders turned up on cue.

“America stands in firm opposition to China’s detention of political dissidents and human rights advocates and religious activists,” George Bush was quoted as saying, before promptly boarding Air Force One to Beijing, knowing full well he needed China on side to bail out the US economy.

Evidently Gordon Brown felt he needed China’s economic help, too.

“As the host nation of the Olympics in 2012 I think it is right that Britain is represented at the Beijing Games,” he said as Chinese troops battered innocent Tibetans in their beds—presumably to make sure they didn’t make it to Beijing and snatch gold from what was left of the Chinese contingent.

According to Human Rights Watch, around 20 first-choice Chinese athletes had been arrested and jailed for daring to sign a petition demanding the release of political prisoners.

In a statement to the London Times, Prime Minister Brown would later justify his comments by cleverly misquoting the Dalai Lama, or at best quoting him in dubious context.

“The Dalai Lama himself has said that he does not want to see a boycott of the Olympics and that is why I have said … I will attend the Olympics as I hope many others do.”

Yes, in reference to Western politicians, the Dalai Lama did indeed say “If they feel to talk, to meet with Chinese leaders, [that] that’s more effective, then go there”, meaning that the sharp spotlight of the Olympics could be used to force the Chinese government into meaningful dialogue about the Tibetan situation, as well as the appalling human rights situation in China itself.

But he also said: “If an individual feels that the best way to remind them [is] not attend, don’t do it.”

He further commented in OpEd News: “There is an ancient cultural heritage that is facing serious danger. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, cultural genocide is taking place…

“A project of long-term brutal repression is under way.”

Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, accused the Dalai Lama of inciting Tibetan unrest with his comments.

Meanwhile, Britain’s Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, was quick to add his support to Gordon Brown’s position.

“We are fully engaged in supporting the Olympics,” he dutifully proclaimed. “We want to see it as a success, and I think it’s right that the prime minister represents us.”

Would have been rude not to, I guess…

Tibet: 50 Years Of Brutal Occupation

A Few Meaningless Peasants

Perhaps the most sickening reality in all of this is not only that the Chinese occupation of Tibet will continue unchecked into the foreseeable future, as brutal as ever;

Not only that thousands more Chinese settlers will arrive in Tibet this year, sent by the Chinese authorities to overwhelm the Tibetan population, further erode Tibetan culture and tighten its already throttling stranglehold on the besieged Tibetan spirit;

Not only that the migrants will arrive by way of the newly built Qinghai-Tibet railway, purpose-built to ship the settlers in, increase China’s military presence in the region and help China further exploit Tibet’s natural resources and damage its fragile environment in the process;

But also that, while Tibet and its people continue to suffer at the hands of one of history’s most tyrannous and brutal occupations, the world’s other superpowers – the United States, Russia, Britain and Europe, India, Israel, Canada – will continue to turn a blind eye for fear of incurring China’s wrath.

The fact is China’s cooperation in establishing what Gordon Brown referred to in his recent speech to Congress as the “global new deal” – effectively the infrastructure for a ‘new world economic order’ – is essential.

With China now more than ever lynchpin to the machinations of new world finance and government, the New World Order’s economic and political edifice will simply collapse unless propped up by China’s financial muscle.

In this context, a few peasants in Tibet are meaningless.

Tibet: 50 Years Of Brutal Occupation

Latest :::::: Naked Injustice

In protest over China’s 50-year illegal occupation of Tibet, and the sentencing to death on Monday of two Tibetans by the Chinese authorities, nine Tibetan students have been arrested in New Delhi by Indian police.

The students were staging a naked demonstration outside the Chinese Embassy, and had chained themselves to the barbed-wire fence guarding the building’s perimeter. They chanted ‘Free Tibet’ slogans at the Chinese Embassy staff.

Meanwhile in Machu County, Tibet, the Voice of Tibet radio station reported that several Tibetan protestors had been viciously beaten following clashes with Chinese security forces.

In one instance, witnesses say, Chinese henchmen burst into a snooker hall in Lhasa and started upturning tables and chairs and clubbing the snooker players with heavy batons.

The reason given for this latest show of brutality is that one of the Tibetans had broken the law by being the proud owner of a fox skin.

Sources say word of the incident soon spread, and within minutes a pitched battle was under way with more than 100 angry Tibetans hurling sticks and stones at baton-wielding soldiers. Though several arrests were made, no serious injuries were reported.

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It should be noted that incidents such as these have dramatically increased since the 50-year anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s exile last month.

It should also be noted that the Dalai Lama was recently quoted as saying his homeland had become a “hell on earth” under the oppressive Beijing regime.

We’ll keep you posted…

image sources: Press Club Of Tibet • Free Tibet