Letter from Lhasa and organ harvesting

For those of you who may think that things have normalized in Lhasa these days, please have a look at this Letter from Lhasa. Due to the virtually total communications blackout by the Chinese, it is very difficult to know exactly what is happening, but there seems to be very little reason to be optimistic.

Yes, the Chinese gevernment should be talking to representatives of His Holiness the Dalai Lama (who was just announced to be Time Magazine's most influencial person in the world), but the Chinese press is not changing its vitriolic language against him at all. One could carefully conclude from that, that chances for a real breakthrough are minimal. I do pray that I'm wrong of course...

Also, Status of Chinese People comes out with a new report of ongoing organ harvesting done apparently on an ongoing basis on Falun Gong practitioners and prisoners who are sentenced to death.
So while you go to the Olympics, why not pick up a fresh liver or kidney while you are there?...

At the same time, the Chinese government are moaning that putting out the Olympic torch is seriously disturbing China's internal harmony. When do these people get real? Do we really need to give President Hu and his whole corrupt clique a standard torture and re-education treatment in a Chinese prison to get through their thick skulls?