A young Tibetan looks at Chinese riot police officers in Kangding County, Sichuan Province.
Posted on 03/21/2008 7:18:05 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
DHARAMSALA, India (CNN) -- U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday criticized China for its crackdown on anti-government protesters in Tibet and called on "freedom-loving people" worldwide to denounce China.
The Dalai Lama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi greet each other Friday in Dharamsala, India.
"If freedom-loving people throughout the world do not speak out against China's oppression in China and Tibet, we have lost all moral authority to speak on behalf of human rights anywhere in the world," Pelosi told reporters.
"The situation in Tibet is a challenge to the conscience of the world."
She made the comments during a meeting with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, noting that she was voicing her personal opinion and not U.S. government policy.
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Her clock is “right” twice a day...........
Beat me to it by seconds!
I think that Tibet is a perfect example of Pelosi/Obama/Hillary’s world view.
There is nothing worth fighting for. Just keep talking. Let the UN handle everything.
Boy, talking to tyrants has really paid off for the people of Tibet!
There’s a petition going around the world to support the Dali Lama. Let’s get busy.
What was China’s initial justification for invasion of Tibet? It was never historically part of China. Are they to use it as a pawn in exchange for Taiwan that IS historically part of China?...............
And what has the Bush adminstration done - other than removing China from the list of human rights violators about a week before the crackdown (AKA genocide) in Tibet?
Pelosi is a hateful creature, folks. However, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
No justificaiton - they claimed that the Dalai Lamas were “oppressing the Tibetian peasants” (standard communist drivel) and sent in the PLA to invade Tibet and bombard Lhasa (Tibet’s capital).
What followed is one of the least-publicized genocides in modern history and it is continuing even as the barbaric, inhuman ChiComs prepare to showcase their “country” during the Olympics.
Unfortunately, the Bush family (father and son) have been complicit in allowing the ChiComs to get away with their nonsense - first in Tiannamen and now in Tibet.
Not sure. I don’t even remember when they invaded.
It just seems to me that Tibet is a perfect example of people who are peaceful and “War is never the Answer”.
I think even in Tibet, they are getting sick of waiting for other nations to start helping and stop talking.
Actually, Nasty has threatened the Chinese with flooding their country with her photographs, thus turning them to stone.
Ah crap I agree with Pelosi
She's against the war in Iraq - where conditions were much worse and for THIS? Iraq loves freedom too! Or it it China is making money and the Iraqi's deserved to be poor, tortured and without freedom? Help me! Liberals make me crazy - need an expert on liberal logic.
BS. How long has she been in Congress?
How long has she been speaker?
She mildly spoke out against Bill Clinton on this subject while he was still in office.
She has been silent on this subject for over 10 years.
So, she woke up yesterday and suddenly had a revelation that she could get some publicity out of this subject?
Sorry, one 'photo op' or one news conference does not over shadow 12 years of silence. She has a long way to go before I would applaud her on this subject.
A young Tibetan looks at Chinese riot police officers in Kangding County, Sichuan Province.
So she deserves absolutely no credit in your opinion. Probably never would regardless of what she did......so your opinion is moot on this point.
Though I agree with Pelosi on this one, I have to wonder why it is always us who have to adapt to some other culture's version of our handshake.
ML/NJ
1950.
This is an excellent book on the subject:
The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk
Palden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk at 18 — just as Tibet was in the midst of political upheaval. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of “reform” that would eventually affect all of Tibet’s citizens and nearly decimate its ancient culture. In 1967, the Chinese destroyed monasteries across Tibet and forced thousands of monks into labor camps and prisons. Gyatso spent the next 25 years of his life enduring interrogation and torture simply for the strength of his beliefs. Palden Gyatso’s story bears witness to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the strength of Tibet’s proud civilization, faced with cultural genocide.
When in Rome, be a Roman?
Bowing such as that is their way of saying “I salute the God within you”. In Nepal, it is “Namaste” and I believe the Tibetan version is “Teshi Delek”
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