[Mr. Douglas]

I used to see “free Tibet” bumper stickers on cars a few decades ago.

There is injustice all over the world, no doubt about it, but you have to choose your battles.

[A CA Guy]

The World’s Tyrants are expected to act in weak Obama’s last days to the full extent they can due to the total absence is American leadership.

[gaijin]

Great account, tragic.

[Daffynition]

We know what this administration thinks about Tibet

[Wallace T.]

The ultimate Chinese strategy is replacement of the Tibetan population with Chinese. This is an age-old method of conquest. Not one square inch of North America belonged to Europeans. What happened in Massachusetts and Virginia, the defeat or expulsion of the Indians, repeated itself until the native nations were finally defeated in the last redoubt of the Great Plains. Even within colonial North America, we saw the English overwhelm the Dutch in New York and the French in the Maritime Provinces of Canada by sheer numbers.

[Texas Fossil]

(appears to be) Original source:

Tibet: a Narrative of Cultural Holocaust

(Indian) Major General Mrinal Suman

Friday, October 7, 2016

http://mrinalsuman.blogspot.com/2016/10/tibet-narrative-of-cultural-holocaust_7.html

note: photos are not the same on both sites.

also note: the comments on the General’s website.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I was in Lhasa for a couple of days as part of a canned tour in 2013. I was not in secondary cities or the countryside of Tibet. So, I was with a tour group.

I would say that the Chinese are flooding the city with Chinese and Chinese influence, but not that they are (at least in Lhasa) watching every tourist.

When you arrive at the airport, you are aware of a heavier level of security than elsewhere in China, where you rarely see police. In the city, it becomes clear that the more responsible jobs are taken by the Chinese, while the Tibetans work at more menial jobs or in retail and/or crafts.

The Chinese are overhauling the infrastructure of Lhasa, putting in gas lines, improving sewage, etc. There’s a lot of building, hotels, etc.

The Tibetans have a completely different worldview because of their religion. They are so religious that they don’t even have a word in their language for religion. It is all. People come from the highlands to Lhasa, which is “only” at 12,000 feet altitude to see some of the shrines. One of the more severe demonstrations of fervor is to prostate oneself repeatedly, moving a body length at a time, around a massive temple and burial building called the Potala Palace, which is a circuit of a couple of miles.

I was able to wander around the city unhindered and unmonitored by anyone. I also met some Australians who were doing the same thing, but without a travel group. They had come to Lhasa by slow train from Beijing—a trip of some 36 hours.

To go to Tibet, you do have to get an internal visa stamp, so visits are definitely controlled.

On the other hand, I was told a lot of younger Tibetans move to greater China for work. It seemed to me that the Chinese were smothering and absorbing Tibet, rather than trying to eliminate it.

As I noted, my experience is very limited.

[tenger]

Mark Steyn wrote this many years ago:

“Everyone's for a free Tibet, but no one's for freeing Tibet. So Tibet will stay unfree - as unfree now as it was when the first Free Tibet campaigner slapped the very first "FREE TIBET" sticker on the back of his Edsel. Idealism as inertia is the hallmark of the movement...He's [the guy with the bumper sticket] advertising his moral superiority, not calling for action.

If Rumsfeld were to say, "Free Tibet? Jiminy, what a swell idea! The Third Infantry Division goes in on Thursday," the bumper-sticker crowd would be aghast. They'd have to bend down and peel off the "FREE TIBET" stickers and replace them with "WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER.”

[Jack Hammer]

A little late - the Chinese have been taking a Giant Dump on Tibet for decades now.

[ResisTyr]

Good informative article, however extremely sad :((

[rmlew]

The Chinese Communists are doing the same in Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, and East Turkestan