China: Rail link brings AIDS, beggars to Tibet - Dalai Lama

Reuters ^ | 01/31/07 | Krittivas Mukherjee

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Rail link brings AIDS, beggars to Tibet - Dalai Lama

Wednesday January 31, 08:20 PM
By Krittivas Mukherjee

MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama accused Beijing on Wednesday of using a new railway link to flood Tibet with beggars, prostitutes and the unemployed, destroying its culture and traditions.

"The railway link is a real danger," said the spiritual leader, who fled to India from Tibet after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959.

"Beggars, handicapped people are coming. Their number is huge. Also jobless people facing difficulty in Chinese mainland are coming to Lhasa," he told a religious gathering in the Indian city of Mumbai.

The 1,142-km rail link opened last July. The world's highest, it passes through spectacular icy peaks on the Tibetan highlands, touching altitudes of 5,000 metres.

Beijing says the 13-hour connection from China's far-western province of Qinghai to Tibet's capital, Lhasa, will bring economic and social development to the long-isolated region.

But Tibetan exiles - about 80,000 of them live in India - have dubbed the rail link to the "second invasion of Tibet". They say it will only increase Chinese migration, dilute Tibetan culture and militarise the region.

The Dalai Lama said Beijing was forcing poor villagers to relocate to Tibet and was also sending uneducated young girls from the countryside to be "inducted as prostitutes" in Lhasa.

"Therefore, that is increasing the danger of AIDS," he said.

The Dalai Lama said that besides destroying the cultural identity of Tibet, the railway was an "environmental menace" because it was helping China mine at very high altitudes.

"We are very concerned about the environmental impact of the railway link," he said.

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This is MO of China for a long time. Using numerical superiority, China floods the occupied area with Chinese and dilutes the local ethnic group culturally and genetically.

Some Uighur woman allegedly said, "Uighur women produce Uighurs, trains produce Chinese." The same phrase can be applied to Tibetans.

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[Calpernia]

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/CHINA.CHAP1.HTM
CHINA'S BLOODY CENTURY

[Calpernia]

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[Tainan]

I saw a very interesting program, I think on the Discovery Chanel or National Geographic Channel, on the building of this railway.

Quite an engineering accomplishment. While watching it I cmmented to my wife that this, your posted article, would be the exact results of this new railway accesability.

[hedgetrimmer]

Think Kansas City Smartports with links to Lazaro Cardenas and China.

[southernnorthcarolina]

The Dalai Lama accused Beijing on Wednesday of using a new railway link to flood Tibet with beggars, prostitutes and the unemployed, destroying its culture and traditions.

Pretty much what folks in Cobb County (suburban Atlanta) think about MARTA (Atlanta's commuter rail system).

[Greenpees]

SO, the Dalai lama doesn't like beggars, handicapped people, poor people or young girls who could spread AIDS.

Forget about Tibet. This man is supposed to be a spiritual leader. What a load of crap this over rated elitist has become.

Isn't this the Left's idea of Jesus Christ in human form?

I thought so.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

It's official: under Hu Jintao, China is still evil.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Those iron horses have always caused trounle.