On Apr 28, 6:09=A0am, adam <afunad...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> brutal past of Tibet
>
> The contract also stipulates: "In case of violation of the contract,
> Dra**** Choda shall be punished according to the local law."
>
> According to old Tibetan administration records of 1950, kept at the
> Archive of the Tibet autonomous region, 90 percent of Tibet's 1
> million people were homeless. Of the 20,000 in Lhasa at the time, more
> than 1,000 families lived as beggars.
>
> Some serf owners tortured their slaves by chopping off their feet and
> hands, gouging out their eyeballs, cutting off their tongues or
> pu****ng them off cliffs.
>
> They could do this legally, because they were protected by the
> Thirteen and Sixteen Laws.
>
> Article Four of the Thirteen Laws stipulated: "Those who loot, kidnap,
> steal and kill, commit armed robberies or rebel against the
> authorities shall be punished cor****ally by: gouging out the eyes;
> cutting off the foot, tongue or hand; being pushed off a cliff;
> drowning; or execution."
>
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Whatever may have been the good qualities of individual monks, the
theocracy itself was brutal. As if that's not bad enough, it was
allied to the feudal aristocracy. This theocratic-feudalist rule
created unimaginable suffering for 95% of the people.
The Chinese freed the 95% from slavery and serfdom, but for half a
century the West created and sustained the myth of the "brutal Chinese
invasion of Tibet" and up to now tries to perpetuate the myth -- all
for its own selfish design of containing and destabalizing
China.
China has already said the Dalai Lama can go back to China as a loyal
Chinese citizen, and I've always believed that if the matter is left
to China and the Dalai Lama, they can reach a settlement in half a
day. But if the Dalai Lama were merely to return to China with no
strings attached, it'd be a shattering defeat for the Western anti-
China demagogues, the CIA and its proxies, and the old slave-owning
feudal aristocracy. They'd be left with nothing; they'd see their
prize -- Tibet -- slip away from their grasp, half a century's work
down the drain. Never mind the Tibetans' happiness, the Dalai Lama
must not be allowed to return with no strings attached.
And so the anti-China mafia pulling the strings behind the Dalai Lama
wants autonomy, which includes the condition that Chinese troops must
not be stationed there. The problem is these thugs think the Chinese
leader****p is a bunch of kindergarten kids. China will never give
these thugs their wet dream for the reasons below.
1) Within a few years of any autonomy, the Dalai Lama will step down
as leader, and the mafia will declare independence, with the West
giving immediate recognition (that's why it doesn't matter that the
Dalai Lama says he doesn't want independence; he can't even control
the thugs today).
2) If you had given a bunch of people a job and they messed it up so
badly that 95% of the people became destitute, would you give them the
job again? Are these people even entitled to demand the job back?
They can swear till they're blue that they'd not repeat their
mistakes, but surely nobody should expect the Chinese leader****p to be
so recklessly irresponsible as to hand these people their old job.
3) If China wants to give autonomy to Tibet, it can actually do so
without reference to the Dalai Lama or the exiles.
4) State autonomy or federalism is not a condition of democracy in any
country.
Having said the above, the working relation****p between the people (in
this case, the Tibetan Chinese citizens) and their government is, of
course, subject to examination and discussion between them. On the
other hand, Tibetan exiles are like overseas Chinese; they're
foreigners. To illustrate, I don't expect Vietnamese exiles be in any
position to demand autonomy for ex-South Vietnam.
Wakalukong
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