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Originally Posted by Domer
I am a Tibetan living in Calgary. It has been a very emotional period for the last few days for all the Tibetans in Calgary.
China occupied Tibet in 1959 under the pretext of "Liberation" (from whom???) and has controlled the land since then. Dalai Lama was forced to flee to exile and there was an exodus of Tibetans who have now settled in India in Dharamsala. Dalai Lama has worked tirelessly for peace and non-violence and pretty much forced Democracy onto Tibetan People and has a functioning elected Government in exile in India with a Prime Minister. Dalai Lama has tried to negotiate with China for a peaceful solution and has even settled for an Autonomous Region. But China has made preconditions saying that Dalai Lama needs to say that 1. Tibet has always been a part of China and 2. Taiwan is also a part of China. But how can Dalai Lama go back into history and change facts or with all his sincerity say something that he doesn’t believe in. And #2, who are we to comment to the political status of Taiwan. So that negotiations have not borne any results.
It is the Tibetans left behind in Tibet that is facing the brunt of the situation. China has given incentives to Han Chinese to move to Tibet so that Tibetans are now outnumbered in their own land. It is an offence to practice your religious faith and even 13 year olds, peacefully demonstrating for religious freedoms, are jailed for over 10 years. Tibetan graduates can’t find employment as they don’t know Chinese.
It is almost like your Chinese neighbor decides to move into your house (supposedly to “help” you without your asking), brings in his whole family and ask you to move into the garage. Tells you to learn Chinese if you want to live in this house; closes the door and shoots if your kid tries to sneak out. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nangpa_La_killings. )
Builds a huge driveway so that they can move out your TVs and stuff; Brags to the whole neighborhood of how nice they have been by building a driveway for you.
Right now, there are reportings of Chinese soldiers doing door to door search and killing young Tibetans at random.
FREE TIBET
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I've gotta say, the 25 or so posts since this one that have failed to reply to it are as apt a bit of social commentary as you're likely to find. The first and only post presented with any kind of a personal, human connection to what's going on in Tibet and it gets totally blown over for continued intellectual debate about the politics of the situation by those with no personal attachment.
Let the cynics rule the day...
I don't mean this as a criticism of other posters in this thread. I'm just wanting to point it out as an interesting social mirror.