Climbers see Tibetans shot 'like rats' (Chinese militias hunting Tibetans in the Himalayas)

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | October 11, 2006 - 3:19PM | Jano Gibson

[proudofthesouth]

The U.N.'s silence on this is deafening.

[CubaninMiami]

So all of the buffoons on the left think the U.S. is the root of all evil in the world...hah...God help us all if the Chinese ever attain a preponderant position in world affairs.

[will of the people]

"Most of them won't go on record and give their names because they are working for international organisations that want to keep their rights to climb in the region," the executive officer of the Australia Tibet Council, Paul Bourke, told smh.com.au."

Well at least they have their priorities straight.

Will Wallace

[dead]

They're undoubtedly granola-crunching trustafarians with "Free Tibet" on the back of their stateside Volvos.

But business is business.

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"Most of them won't go on record and give their names because they are working for international organisations that want to keep their rights to climb in the region,"

I sure hope I'm interpreting that sentence wrong because if I'm not...Well, they got their priorities straight...man-o-man, what a world-what a world.

[Hatteras]

""Most of them won't go on record and give their names because they are working for international organisations that want to keep their rights to climb in the region," the executive officer of the Australia Tibet Council, Paul Bourke, told smh.com.au."

Screw the refugees right to climb to freedom, we want to keep our rights to climb for fun!

[Smokin' Joe]

If they can keep climbing there, at least the story will get out.

If not, there is nothing to deter the Chinese at all, and only a rare few will ever tell the tale.

The situation is an old one, but the information is seldom taken up by the media. If climbers from those organizations can be there, there is a chance it will get more exposure.

[Cicero]

Many years ago, I wrote a letter to the editor at the New York Times asking why their maps always showed the lands won by Israel after it was attacked by Egypt, Jordan, and Syria in the Six Days War as "Occupied Territory," yet only a few days after China invaded Tibet their maps labeled the conquered land of Tibet simply as "China."

I got two anxious letters back from the editors, but neither offered a real explanation. Clearly it was a sore point for them at the time.

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Their presence didn't deter the chicoms one iota though, did it? They wouldn't care who was there to witness their murdering ways. Perhaps they'll(chicoms)see it as a way of spreading the word---come this way and we'll kill ya.

[siddude]

That is sick!

[Sir Gawain]

I would forward this to my Chinese coworkers but I would just get the usual response: "It's all lies."

[massgopguy]

A "Teen-age" Nun? The AHEM men the the Peoples' Republic Army must be really proud. Running over students with tanks, shooting Nuns in the back. What are they Muslims or something?

[Ilky Hucktar]

Well, I hope they don't start shooting refugees within sight of the Olympics in 2012. That might prove to be distracting.

[LexBaird]

From the brilliant wit of Mark Steyn:
"The other day I found myself, for the umpteenth time, driving in Vermont behind a Kerry/Edwards supporter whose vehicle also bore the slogan 'FREE TIBET'. It must be great to be the guy with the printing contract for the 'FREE TIBET' stickers. Not so good to be the guy back in Tibet wondering when the freeing thereof will actually get under way. For a while, my otherwise not terribly political wife got extremely irritated by these stickers, demanding to know at a pancake breakfast at the local church what precisely some harmless hippy-dippy old neighbor of ours meant by the slogan he'd been proudly displaying decade in, decade out: 'But what exactly are you doing to free Tibet?' she demanded. 'You're not doing anything, are you?' 'Give the guy a break,' I said back home. 'He's advertising his moral virtue, not calling for action. If Rumsfeld were to say, "Free Tibet? Jiminy, what a swell idea! The Third Infantry Division go in on Thursday", the bumper-sticker crowd would be aghast."

[LexBaird]

Also from Steyn is this bumper sticker:

Free Iraq: Done. Free Afghanistan: Done.
How's your Free Tibet campaign going?

[dfwgator]

Where's Richard Gere? He's been awfully silent. (Insert Gerbil joke here)

[mallardx]

2008 Beijing.

[LexBaird]

(Insert Gerbil joke here)

Not that there is anything wrong with that...

[N. Theknow]

Kerry/Edwards supporter whose vehicle also bore the slogan 'FREE TIBET'. It must be great to be the guy with the printing contract for the 'FREE TIBET' stickers.

In the Northeast, the "Free Tibet" sticker is equivalent to a parking sticker at a liberal campus. It usually means that you have either personally attended or know someone who has attended or would like to attend a meeting with the Dalai Lama.

Therefore your "enlightenment" is somewhat higher than, "Edwina, back in bowl."