Really hate to say this, but I told you so...

From the Human Rights Torch Relay site:

In front of the Congress, on April 24, Olympic torch was relayed in Canberra, Australia. “Ït shows to everyone in the world that the event like what happened today in Australia is actually a new round of ‘Cultural Revolution’. ” (Mr. Chen Yonglin, a former Chinese diplomat).

You can look in the archive of this blog for April 2. Perhaps Mr. Yonglin has been reading it?

Freedom of speech outside of China

The eye-witness report from a good friend of mine of what happened in Canberra

"The atmosphere was very aggressive and unpleasant. In this video a white Australian couple had a cardboard placard asking for autonomy in Tibet. They were surrounded, had their placard covered by the Chinese flag, and shouted down, "One China", " Go away", "who hired you?" and at the end "Use your own f***cking brain! You are against the free will of 1.4 billion people - --one fourth of the world's population. Do you think we care?"

Other friends were punched in the stomach, kicked, spat on, had their flags and placards snatched away and stomped on. Several people were hit with flagpoles. Didn't matter if we were Tibetan or Australian. Nigel was given a hefty shove and rescued by the Chinese PAP. So much for respect for elders!

The worst thing was that in our own country, we were prevented from exercising our right to free speech and point of view by foreign nationals.

At least 10,000 Chinese, mainly students were bussed from Melbourne and Sydney and Adelaide, with all expenses paid for. On arrival they were fed, they listened to Chinese military music and were coached, with leaders in most groups shouting out slogans. Even the police were overwhelmed and horrified. The worst incident I heard of (reported by Reuters but not the local press) was a 15 year old Tibetan boy. He was set upon as he was on his way to the kiosk to get something to eat. 150 Chinese students belted him and chased him. Desperate to get away he ran into the waters of Lake Burley Griffin. The owners of the kiosk called the police and he was rescued by the police launch. Many Tibetans were distraught, it brought back awful memories for them."

This seems to be the only flame in the world that spreads darkness...

'Freedom of complaint' the Chinese way

Of course not just the Tibetans have problems...

Happy Olympics.
May the Chinese government become sportsmen rather then fascists...

Will the miracle happen?

China plans to meet Dalai Lama envoys
By Reuters April 25

Chinese officials will meet representatives of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism whom China blames for a wave of unrest, Xinhua news agency reported on Friday, citing official sources.

The move marks a change in tactics on the part of Beijing, which has stepped up its vilification of the Dalai Lama since anti-government protests hit Tibet and rippled across ethnic Tibetan parts of China in the past weeks.

"It is hoped that through contact and consultation, the Dalai side will take credible moves to stop activities aimed at splitting China, stop plotting and inciting violence and stop disrupting and sabotaging the Beijing Olympic Games so as to create conditions for talks," Xinhua quoted the official as saying.

As Agam noted in his blog:
"So that's that then -- he's never done any of those things. The talks are on."


Please pray with me that the Dalai Lama's representative will not talk to deaf ears only...
OM MANI PADME HUM

China urges Australians not to protest

Isn't that an interesting comment from a country that keeps hiding behind the statement that the outside world should not interfere with its "internal politics"?

It seems that Chinazi's Foreign Ministry wants Australia to skip the constitution for the Holy Torch. At the same time, the Chinese themselves can demonstrate against Carrefour without any sensible or logical reason, in a country without freedom of speech.

Is it just me who is getting confused?

By the way, the Chinazi's Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman also said "... the Olympic torch, which belongs to the people of the whole world".
Exactly! The whole world is not China alone, dear...

May wisdom replace short-sightedness in all human beings.

A journalist using freedom of speech, yes they still exist!

Thank you Sally Jenkins!

I wonder if she has received death threats yet...

Test for Chinese students - Spot the differences

Can you find the differences?

	Han protester
	Tibetan protester

'Democracy' in China

I always wondered if I would be able to recognize a completely fake, government-organized demonstration. Now I know... Thank you dear Fuehrers! And, thank you Gestapo for keeping these wild demonstrators under control!
I don't think the demonstrators got paid as much as in Thailand (350 U$) though, or they would have looked much more outraged...

Child slavery - a conflict of interests

I find Chinese a very difficult language.
Apparently, child slavery is called 'a conflict between labour and capital'. I don't see any conflict though, every Nazi knows that slaves are cheap?

Religious freedom in the glorious empire

Of course, everyone is focussed on the Tibetans at the moment, but let us not forget how the empire strikes back at religion in general. Of course, Mao (the biggest mass-murderer of Chinese history), was only '30% wrong' according to the current fuehrers that run the central government, and it seems his beloved statement 'religion is poison' is considered to be in the '70% right'-category.

Probably you heard of the group of 17 Muslim Uyghurs who were killed in a raid by Chinese SS troops in January this year. Most of the Uyghurs, like the Tibetans, do not even want a separate state, but at least some cultural autonomy and religious freedom and simply be 'left in peace' by the continuous pestering by the central Fuehrership.
Now an Uyghur Chrisitan is enjoying two years re-education through labor by the Re-education Labor Committee of Hetian City, Xinjiang, for, yes what exactly? For those who are more familiar with the German Nazi terminology, 'Re-education Labor Committee' is 'Concentration Camp' in Chinese.

The Chinese constitution guarantees the right to religious freedom, but apparently not the right to own an Uyghur bible, nor visiting a Three Self Church in Xinjiang, and obviously praying with foreign Christians is out of the question, so what exactly does religious freedom mean in China?
Much more background in this article by Elizabeth Van Wie Davis.

Or maybe just being Uyghur is the problem?
Not really, if you ask the 46 Christians arrested in Kashi, Xinjiang, 2 detained for 15 days or the 120 House Church members who were detained in Liu Fang-ping village, Chuanhui County of Zhoukou City, Henan. "The Christians were studying the Bible in the home of Wang Ming-Liang, when suddenly, more than 60 policemen entered Wang’s home, and detained all of the members." Sounds like very dangerous for the empire...

Perhaps we should ask the Falung Gong members who are in prison at the moment, waiting to be killed in case someone needs a fresh organ...

Some info regarding the 'religious freedom' in the Fourth Empire:
1982 - The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee (the Fuerhrers) formulate “The Basic Viewpoint and Policy on the Religious Affairs during the Socialist Period of Our Country,”known as “Document No. 19.” This document continues as the basis of the religious policy and itemizes “five characteristics” (wu xing) of religion in socialist China: that it 1) will exist for a long time, 2) has masses of believers 3) is complex, 4) entwines with ethnicity, and 5) affects international relations. The document concludes that: 1) religious affairs should be handled with care, 2) religious believers should be rallied for the central task of economic construction and 3) religious freedom should be guaranteed, as long as the believers love the country, support CCP rule and observe socialist laws. It acknowledges the mistakes of militant atheism, yet clearly reaffirms the atheist doctrine that religion will wither away and that atheist propaganda should be carried out unremittingly.

OK, it finally dawns on me: "religious believers should be rallied for the central task of economic construction", means all religious people (especially people like priests, monks and nuns) should be put in labour camps, and "religious freedom should be guaranteed, as long as the believers love the country, support CCP rule..." means that religious freedom is not guaranteed if you are not enthusiastically in favour of the repressing Han Chinese and the omniscient and all-wise central Fuehrership. Of course, that also explains why Tibetan monasteries need to fly the Chinese flag - just to pay reverence to the holy Fuehrers.

So, I have a suggestion to the Chinese Central Party: they should promote another '-ism' that suits much better; it works very well to proclaim the Han Chinese a superior race, it promotes the use of re-education camps (concentration camps), it is patriotic, well-organized, nationalistic and socialist; of course, Fascism! To make the New China complete, you need some tine changes, the new name of the country could be Zina (swap the syllables), the CCP should be called 'the Fuehrers'. Zina has already found it's Mussulini: he is called Mugabe and is doing a great job of organizing Zimbabwe at the moment...
All we are waiting for is a declaration of war with the rest of the world - well, what better symbolism is the Olympic Games to set the world in flames...

Great Olympic Flames of Fascism

After the great success of the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward in killing millions of people, destroying all morals and culture of China's history, it's now official; we now have the Great Olympic Flames of Fascism. As communism was perhaps 30% wrong (like Mao), China is now a new country, driven by patriotism and a blooming economy, and a New Glorious Revolution is needed.

With courageous patriotic acts of the glorious blue tracksuit army, Chinese authorities are now ordering the arrest and punishment of all Tibetan monks, nuns and other terrorists who dare to peacefully question the authority of the Holy Olympic Flames with torture, starving and - where necessary - the beating-to-death of these anti-patriotic criminal prisoners. The glorious Chinese Leadership has not only re-introduced the wonderful technique of re-education at gun-point, but have in their great wisdom now decided the attack on the strongholds of the suicide-bombing-terrorist-splittists of the Dalai Lama Clique: The monasteries can be destroyed again!

All true Chinese patriots are now ordered to join the Great Olympic Flames of Fascism to bring the chauvinist rest of the world to their knees and build our 10,000-year Middle Empire.

See Agam's RAIDS, RE-EDUCATION, RESIST, REPEAT for the depressing facts...

More witches please!

You may have heard about the witch-hunt that was started after the Chinese girl Grace Wang at Duke University USA tried to make up her own mind between two groups of opposing protesters. An interview with her is available at Radio Free Asia. To me, she sounds like the most sensible Chinese person in the news since quite a while. A pretty heroic stance for a young student - applause!
A few sound bites:

"I think that this strange “anger” which we see among Chinese people right now is evidence of great psychological imbalance. It is a peculiar, twisted form of patriotism. It isn’t really patriotism at all. It is all about boosting oneself by attacking other people."
...
"It really does look just like the Cultural Revolution to me. When I was studying that period in China’s history, I didn’t believe it. But it’s really like a joke. A lot of these people think that there was no such thing as the Cultural Revolution, that it didn’t happen, but right now we are experiencing something very similar…"
...
"Actually there is a huge silent majority in China who don’t speak out. They can see clearly what is going on and they can think for themselves. So far, not one of those more considered voices has been heard. We are just hearing the rather excitable views of the people who are content to view things superficially. I think that this whole affair will blow over and be forgotten about, but psychologically it won’t have been dealt with. At least I can talk openly about it because I am in the U.S…"

Grace Wang for president! Oops, sorry, no elections in China...

Shouldn't this guy wear a blue training suit?

Thanks!

Thailand skips constitution for the 'holy' torch?

The Olympic torch, which was turned into a holy symbol by the German Fascists for the 1936 Games in Berlin is now more important then the constitution of Thailand.
The Daily Xpress reports on April 18:

"Protesters disrupting tomorrow's Olympic-torch relay will be arrested immediately and prosecuted for public disturbance, police say.

Foreigners will be expelled and banned from returning. Those with residency will have it revoked permanently, spokesman Lt-General Watcharaphol Prasarnratchakij says.

"If they come here and engage in unlawful acts, they must be prosecuted ... if they engage in illegal activity, we will proceed according to the law by revoking their visa," he says."

There is apparently a slight problem with the Thai constitution, as Pokpong Lawansiri comments:
""Under the Constitution, an individual - local or foreigner - has the right to rally for a cause," he says."

So, after mobilizing 17,000 police in New Delhi to lock down half the city, and enabling a mere handful invited visitors to see the holy torch, Thailand is now planning to disregard their own constitution.

It seems to me that by the time the torch will arrive in China all reason and justice is perfectly lost, exactly like the Chinese love to do business.

The worst may be yet to come...

Yes, it was bad that the Chinese authorities arrested people after the peaceful protests of March 10 the party-line cannot permit any criticism.
Yes, it was bad that they stirred up the violence themselves in Lhasa, in order to have some nice videos to present to the outside world to prove how bad Tibetans are (When Lhasa was burning, no police was found anywhere in an area where 1 in 20 are police/soldier).
Then it was bad they arrested thousands of people who are held under terrible conditions; besides torture the prisoners are virtually deprived of food and medical treatment.
Next it was bad that the Chinese authorities went back to the 're-education' techniques of the Cultural Revolution - probably the darkest page of China's entire history. Now the monks are refusing to be re-educated...

Not long ago, the Chinese government began to spread absurd rumors of Tibetan suicide bombers - I suppose under the guidance of China's Bin Laden: the Dalai Lama. Now, Chinese authorities are claiming to find stores of weapons at monasteries.

So much for history.

There are now thousands of Tibetans in prisons who only cost money. More and more refuse to be tortured into a proper patriotic attitude. China cannot afford to lose more face over this - as far as they still have a face...
There is one argument in the last decade that seems to give everyone a 'justification' to arbitrarily kill and torture people (thank you USA...) - and the magic word is terrorism.

I hope this is just my paranoia, but I fear that China might use this argument to complete their fascist genocide in Tibet. It is surely not hard to drug a few Tibetan prisoners, decorate them with bombs and send them out into a few shopping malls... Of course accidentally in full view of TV cameras. That will prove that all Tibetans are terrorist suicide bombers, so you can justifiably execute everyone in prison, and anyone else you don't like (just like the 'good old times of the Cultural Revolution).
Mind you, the current Chinese leaders were very busy making a good career-start around that time...
With a bit of luck, you can even harvest their organs - that way you can reimburse the poor Chinese shopkeepers in Lhasa whose shops your own soldiers and police set on fire...

If any western country protests, you can just refer back that China is helping Mr. Bush in his fantastic global war on terrorism and destroy the axis of evil which now lies in Tibet and is led by 'Osama Bin Lama'.

Please, please pray with me that my paranoia mind is utterly wrong and the Tibetan prisoners are not tortured to death or summarily executed, but let free instead.

As ever, I can recommend Agam's blog for more background reading.

Protectors of the torch and torturers of people

By Laurie Hanna, The Mirror, UK, 12/04/2008-

Annie Yang was preparing dinner when eight men burst into her kitchen and hauled her away in front of her terrified son. It was the last time the single mum would see him for years.

Her captors were secret police officers who had put her under surveillance.

And this week, as Annie watched the chaotic scenes of the Olympic flame relay in London, the sight of men in blue tracksuits flanking the torch sent shivers down her spine.

Those men - members of the elite Flying Dragons - were from the same unit who snatched her that night.

Without a trial or a lawyer, Annie was condemned to a labour camp. For two years she was tortured, beaten and driven to the brink of suicide.

Her story is one that the Chinese government is desperate for you not to hear. Only since fleeing to Britain, can Annie talk openly about the barbaric practices in the city which will host this year’s Olympic Games from August 8.

More...

For the people of Tibet

Please do check out the sweet initiative at this website:
for-the-people-of-tibet.net

How not to terrorize the Internet

A funny story from the famous German News program of the ARD.
They put up a poll on their website to ask if the tour of the Olympic torch should be cancelled.
In order to influence the results of this poll, after a few days, no less then 7600 links to the ARD poll were discovered on the internet, almost exclusively in Chinese websites. Huge amounts of votes came in via these links.
The irony; the ending date of the poll was well before all these links appeared. :-)

Funny & sad cartoons

Do have a look here at YouTube apparently he is working on 10 cartoons, see Lopes' blog for more info.

Chinese Cyber-terrorism

What is happening on the Internet? YouTube videos disappearing, websites disappear, numerous new blogs, older blogs overflowing with comments of Chinese propaganda, email threats to journalists...

It seems the Chinese Government has appealed to Chinese living abroad (for example students on US or Canadian universities) to create an explosion of propaganda on the internet.

Yesterday, Tibet.net was hacked by 'unknown hackers' (they don't leave their name behind), videos on YouTube disappear by voting massively against it, it is removed from YouTube (for example a video that showed in detail how a Chinese video how rioters attacked a motorcyclist was orchestrated), many new blogs are popping up stuffed with Chinese propaganda, and the comments that you can read on this blog tend to speak for themselves as well.

So now, after completely censoring the internet in their own country, the Chinese Government has now started to censor the Internet worldwide - of course that makes their case much more acceptable and sympathetic...

When will someone take this blog down, as I'm certainly not agreeing with the Chinese Government deluded view on Tibet and on Human Rights in general?

Agam's blog comments on this much more elaborately today.

Alarming SMS from Amdo-Tibet

An unconfirmed SMS from Amdo, cultural Tibet:

"there are about 2000 Tibetans put in the prison in Amdo. They are all being sentenced to death.
PLS FORWARD THIS MESSAGE EDVERYONE "THOSE WHO HAS SENSE OF NATIONALITY and all our friend"

Please pray with me that this message is incorrect.

Undercover in Tibet - Channel 4 documentary

Channel 4 British Television:

More people jailed?

Just received an unconfirmed report that some 2,000 people are jailed in the Amdo region.
Please pray that the authorities are good sports and we will see them again alive and unhurt.

An invitation to young Chinese and Tibetans

I am not happy with this blog.

The point is that perhaps it provides some information, but it doesn't help much to improve the situation. So, instead of informing others about what is happening, I like to hear from you what we could do about it.

What do you think can be done about the current situation in China?

China wants to be a respected country in the world, and likes a proper level of economic growth to make the people happy.
Hosting the Olympic Games should help to present a 'New China', which is well-developped and prosperous.
But now, the Tibetan people show their unhappiness, and it is possible that other minorities in China (like from Uigur) that are also unhappy will also begin more demonstrations.

Do you, as young Chinese or Tibetan think that arresting people, hurting them and try to make them say things they do not agree with, will make them happy citizens?

If you are interested to think about a solution, perhaps I can open a special Discussion Forum to discuss these kind of questions.
Of course others are more then welcome to react here also! The main point is to see if we can generate ideas for solutions to this challenge.

Another 'splittist'

From Time Magazine,Monday, Mar. 17, 2008
By Simon Robinson in Kathmandu

"Phuntsok arrived in this polluted, traffic-crammed city six days ago, dusty and weary after a 15-day journey from Tibet, a small duffle and a handful of clothes his only possessions. He was happy to have made it out, he says. Or rather he was happy until he phoned home to Lhasa to hear the news: Tibet was on fire and the same anger and frustration that had pushed Phuntsok to leave his homeland at the age of just 17 was now being turned against Chinese police and the shops and houses of recent Chinese migrants by his fellow Tibetans.
"I left too early," he says. "I wish I could be there with the protesters. I don't care if I die. I actually would like the opportunity to die alongside my relatives and friends."
In that first phone call home to his parents, he says, he learned that his 19-year-old cousin had joined the demonstrators and been shot dead by Chinese police. "I should have been there," says Phuntsok calmly."

How to win the hearts of the Tibetans...

From Tibet.net

"2 April 2008: Chinese "work-teams" arrived at various monasteries including Tongor monastery, Tongkor Township, in their attempt to give "patriotic re-education" classes.

Chinese "work-teams" also attempted a signature campaign to get people to denounce His Holiness the Dalai Lama and refer to him as a "splittist." The monk in charge of the monastery, Lobsang Jamyang, openly rejected the campaign.

Yeshi Nyima, also a monk from Tongor monastery, stood up during a "patriotic re-education" session and shouted that the he would not provide his signature, even at the cost of his life. The other monks of the monastery also made the same statements.

3 April 2008: People's Armed Police (PAP) and Public Security Bureau (PSB) arrived at Tongkor monastery in response to yesterday's incident at the monastery.

The PAP and PSB conducted thorough searches of all the monk quarters and confiscated portraits of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the spiritual head of the monastery. They also took away mobile hand-sets and money belonging to the monks.

Geshe Tsultrim Gyatso, a 70-year old monk who demanded that His Holiness the Dalai Lama's portrait not be taken down, was arrested and taken into custody.

Laypeople (living nearby Tongor monastery) held a protest in support of the monks at Tongor monastery. Tsultrim Phuntsok, a 26 year old man, was arrested during the protest.

Around 8 - 9 PM, loud gun shots were heard in the Tongor village area. Later it was confirmed that Nyima and Kabook (both monks from Tongor monastery) were severely injured from gunshots. Currently, we have no additional details on number of people injured or killed.

There are around 300 monks at Tongor monastery. However, since the incident at Tongor monastery only a few senior monks remain at the monastery. Currently, we have no information on the whereabouts of the other monks."

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
Confucius

Bad news, but a glimpse of hope as well

First the bad news, extracted from Christopher Bodeen's article at Yahoo News:
In Gharze, (west-Tibet) police opened fire on monks and lay protesters. Tibetans report 8 protesters died. Xinhua merely reports an injured police officer as victim.
May Tibetans, Chinese, Uigurs and all others be free from sufering and the causes for future suffering.


A glimpse of hope extracted from an article at TCHRD.org, summarized & clipped by me:

On March 25th, hundreds of Tibetans staged a peaceful solidarity march. The marchers ended their procession at the Holkha Township government headquarters where they held a sit-in protest and recited prayer throughout the day. Although PAP and PSB officials were seen in their combat gear during the entire peaceful march, there was no report of arrest or detention of Tibetan marchers that day.
[Thank you, thank you.]

Next day, the authorities launched an early morning raid and arrested at least three Tibetans. In response to those arrests, more than 600 Tibetans staged a full-day peaceful sit-in protest to demand immediate release of those arrested. The protesters dispersed after township authorities agreed to secure their releases. The sources confirmed that protesters pledge to undertake a similar protest at the government headquarters if authorities fail to deliver their promise.

Why is this a sparkle of hope?
Nobody got killed or injured!
If only the leaders in charge of China would understand that this is a win-win situation.
My honest personal thanks to the officer-in-charge at Holkha for his restraint.
May his wisdom spread to the higher cadres.

If he now also understands that the arrests serve no purpose whatsoever, forgets about any deadline, and release the prisoners, he would be in charge of a peaceful area - something even his superiors would appreciate.

Chinese logic for dummies

So why does the Chinese Government still believe that indoctrination sessions helps people to be happy?
Thank you Joshua Michael Schrei for this all-important insight:

"A lie repeated a hundred times becomes the truth."
Chairman Mao

So if every Chinese is patriotic enough to say 'bad Dalai Lama', gee, we must have given the Nobel Peace Prize to the worst person who ever lived on this planet?

Encouraging local support the Chinese way

Agam writes straight from my heart:

"While China has long claimed overwhelming local support for its policies in Tibet, recent events firmly belie that claim. Therefore, indoctrination must be intensified. They just don't have a clue, and apparently couldn't find one were they in the middle of a clue field, smeared with clue musk and blowing the clue mating call whistle. This is exactly what makes Tibetans angry. "Well," they seem to be thinking, "let's do more of it then.""

More recent reports on the return of the good-old indoctrination sessions.

China's free cremation service...

The TibetCustom.com website reports:

"The Pubic Security Bureau (PSB) forcefully took the body of Lhakpa Tsering from his family telling them that some investigations needed to be done at the Peoples Procuratorates. His body was later cremated in Toelung (west of Lhasa) and only his ashes were returned to his family in a plastic bag with his name written on it.

On March 24, Kunga (a monk from Chokri monastery) in Drakgo (Ch: Luhuo) County, Karze "Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture," Sichuan province, was shot and killed during a demonstration at Chokri Monastery. On March 25, his body was forcefully taken from Chokri monastery and cremated nearby."

TibetCustom.com also publish a list on the same page with the names of 44 Tibetans identified to have been killed in the riots so far of a total of around 140.
It seems the Chinese Government's body count is quite a bit lower then the Tibetans claim - perhaps cremations are not counted as deaths?

A pinch of irony

From an article at Phayul.com:

"It is ironic that China, a country that does not allow the operation of a free press, should accuse the Western media of bias in its coverage of the dramatic events in Tibet, including the use of double standards" - not the words of a Western journalist but of Frank Ching writing this week in the South China Morning Post.

Warning, more Chinese fake videos on their way!

More from Agam's Blog

The monks of Kirti monastery in exile, located in Dharamsala, received contact from their brothers in Ngaba county. Accounts of the raids as of March 28 were given. Thousands of security forces entered 6 monasteries in the area, raiding the monks' rooms and confiscating all means of communication. Monks were forced at gunpoint to step on photographs of Dalai Lama. The Chinese then staged some scenes and videotaped them.
* They forced some monks to hold up a portrait of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan national flag.
* A small monk was forced to hide half his body underneath the wooden floorboards and made to place his hands on the keyboard of a lap top computer.

One of the monks was able to make a secret phone call to the Kirti monks in India.
"I am worried that the CCP is creating false evidence to try to show that His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the mastermind behind the protests in Tibet. The security forces forced us to act out these scenes against our will with guns pointed at us. I appeal to the people of the world, do not be persuaded by these fake videos".

Back to the glorious Cultural Revolution?

More evidence of the sad communication-gap...
From Agam's Blog

Shrill, Cultural Revolution-style denunciations are the order of the day when it comes to official PRC statements regarding Dalai Lama. He is the "cat's paw of international anti-China forces". Protesting monks are the "scum of Buddhism". And foreign critics have a "dark and despicable mentality".

Kellee Tsai, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University says ordinary Chinese are "so thoroughly socialized by this idea," that any challenge triggers highly emotional reactions.
Such perceptions, Tsai said, extend to both ordinary citizens and well-educated intellectuals and officials, who may have been exposed to alternative viewpoints.
In an example of the depth of feeling, Tsai said a graduate student of hers received threats and insults from Chinese graduate students overseas after circulating an open letter from dissidents calling on Beijing to open talks with the Dalai Lama...
"Those who suggest that China might tone down its rhetoric or relax media controls are also likely to be viewed as being overly influenced by Western ideas, sympathetic to secessionist forces, and perhaps even unpatriotic," Tsai said.

The Chinese really miss Steven Spielberg..

OR: HOW NOT TO FAKE AN ATTACK ON VIDEO

You shouldn't miss this; one of the worst fake attacks ever seen on video.

May all beings find happiness and the causes for happiness.

How revolutions work

Party Member: "Are you happy after the revolution?"
Tibetan: "No"
PM: "How can that be?"
T: "Before I had two sets of clothes, now only one"
PM: "Don't complain, people in Africa run around naked."
T: "Really? Did they have two revolutions?"

Happy April 1st!

Please pray for the people in Tibet, Han or Tibetan, they all need it.

IOC wants Beijing to open Internet during Olympics

AP[Tuesday, April 01, 2008 20:54]
By Stephen Wade

BEIJING, April 1 – The Internet must be open during the Beijing Olympics.

That was the message a top-ranking International Olympic Committee official delivered Tuesday to Beijing organizers during the first of three days of meetings – the last official sessions between IOC inspectors and the Chinese hosts before the games begin in just over four months.

Read more.

Thank you IOC!!!
If that would work, you will destroy all of China's Govt. work to keep it's citizens ignorant about the truth.
I pray that this wish will be granted though, however unrealistic it is...

China grabs onto the ultimate excuse of our times

China: Tibetans planning suicide attacks
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer (April 1, 2008)

BEIJING - China on Tuesday accused "Tibet independence forces" of planning to use suicide squads to trigger bloody attacks — the lastest in a string of accusations that have taken aim at supporters of the Dalai Lama.
Read the article

Please pray with me that the Chinese will not go as far as blowing up an innocent Tibetan and next declare him a terrorist, just so they can say; "See, I told you so."
Afterall, their reasoning could well be: "Who cares about a couple of Tibetans after we killed more then a million of them? And something like this gave the USA the excuse to start two wars, so they will have to support us now?"