The Times (of London) has an exclusive report up: ” Chinese paramilitary police killed eight people and wounded dozens more when they fired on a protest by several hundred Tibetan monks and villagers, The Times has been told.” (more…)
The New York Times reports about a protest that disrupted an Olympic Ceremony last Sunday (when Greek officials handed over the Olympic flame to organizers of the Beijing Summer Games), but it seems to me that this is what they should have expected. China has one of the most oppressive regimes in the world, and the communists have tried to completely destroy Tibetan culture. This is the opportunity for Tibetans to force the world to pay attention to its plight. (more…)
That’s what Tibetans must have thought when they started protesting this March 14th. It seems that during the critical first day of the protests, Chinese riot police were nowhere to be found. They fled the scene “after an initial skirmish,” this even though some Chinese shopkeepers “begged for protection.” (more…)
This is the kind of thing athletes need to do this summer, when they’re in Bejing for the Olympics: “German pole vaulter Anna Battke plans to protest China’s intervention in Tibet at the Beijing Olympics. Although Olympic regulations prohibit political statements, Battke wants athletes to dress up as Tibetan monks and Chinese officials and symbolically shake hands.” (more…)
Tibet’s true leader, the Dalai Lama, has said that he’s not going to tell his followers inside Tibet to surrender to the Chinese. This even though he fears that their protests may lead to “an imminent blood bath.” He fears this, but he also believes there’s nothing he can do to prevent it from happening. (more…)
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