No one but a few high-profile celebrities and the Tibetans themselves are interested in Tibet. At least, that is how China would like us all to believe. Years after the Chinese Government forced the Dalai Lama to flee his homeland and take shelter in Dharamshala, India; nothing really has changed for the Tibetans. They are routinely tortured for their Buddhist Faith and a third degree genocide is on at Tibet. There are many ways to finish off a race. The method here is to flood Tibet with the Chinese to the extent that the native population just becomes too small to have any meaningful presence. Now again we are watching with bated breathe as Tibetan peace activists make the perilous journey home. They are marching from Dharamshala to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. And as is to be expected the Chinese Government has banned the protesters from entering Tibet. Also is banned any remembrance of the 49th Anniversary of the suppression of Tibetans by the People’s Liberation Army. Yet, the UK Independent reports how all of Tibet and exiled Tibetans throughout the world have become publicly defiant. The Chinese, in short, are Tibetan all red in the face.
The UK Independent reports the whole chain of events with a sort of characteristic Western gush we are so accustomed to when a person like Richard Gere discusses his own consternation at the failing of the Tibetan cause. This is all very well and is really grand of the First World to so care for the fallen of this wretched earth. But then, to focus on this, as mainstream media does, is to miss the main point. Even to carry on quoting the Dalai Lama ad infinitum is to miss the main issue here. The main issue here is that the Tibetans who stayed back in their own land are out on the streets of Lhasa and protesting their servitude at the hands of the Chinese. This, in spite of being kicked, abused, raped and burnt. It is easy to protest from outside one’s country and lament the despicable conditions of the motherland. But it is tough, sometimes to the point of absurdity, to protest while living under the oppressive regime. After so many years, the Tibetans in their homeland, who have no escape route or rather, who will not run away from Tibet, are vocal and filled with the fire of renewed protest. This is true rebellion: to annihilate the evil from within. There is only one problem; the Chinese are too technologically advanced and ruthless to allow any meaningful protest. Like the military junta in Burma, the Chinese are just biding their time to crush all protests in Tibet. There is none to prevent that because the world community will perversely continue to enjoy the spirit of the rebellion while the rebels die fighting. Tibet has no oil to bribe either the Americas or Europe.
Source: UK Independent
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