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Wednesday, October 27, 2004

free tibet

If you have no idea what has occured (and continues to happen) in Tibet watch this video:

Here are a few things to know if you cannot watch the video:

  • More than a million Tibetans have died under the Chinese occupation as a result of torture, starvation, and execution, according to the Tibetan Government in Exile.
  • More than 6,000 monasteries and their contents, irreplaceable jewels of Tibetan culture, have been destroyed.
  • Tibetans are routinely imprisoned and tortured for non-violently expressing their views.
  • Freedom of religion is severely curtailed.
  • Nuns are brutally raped in Chinese prisons.
  • China is encouraging the large-scale settlement of non-Tibetans into Tibet which is overwhelming the Tibetan population in many areas.
  • Detainees are regularly tortured and exiled Tibetans have only limited access to their country. Meanwhile, China has just opened Tibet to both individual and group tourism, and to wider economic development. (source: International Campaign for Tibet)

As with everything there are two versions. In this case it is the Chinese and the Tibetian. One side may or may not be completly right however it is difficult to dismiss the distruction that is occuring. If this is news to your--or interesting--please find out more.

posted by kd at 7:37 PM