CIA got him out, and for those who don't know, Tibet is a well-known CIA station and asset. Sorry. Certainly explains the positive reception the man receives by my government and its mouthpiece media.
"UN rights commissioner censures China on Tibetans" by Nick Cumming-Bruce | New York Times, November 03, 2012
GENEVA — The top human rights official of the United Nations took China to task Friday over suppression of the rights of Tibetans, which she said had driven them to ‘‘desperate forms of protest,’’ referring to some 60 self-immolations by Tibetans protesting Chinese rule that have been reported since March 2011, including seven since mid-October.
I really wish they wouldn't burn themselves to death.
Navi Pillay, the high commissioner for human rights, said in a statement that she was disturbed by reports of detentions, disappearances, and excessive use of force against peaceful demonstrators, as well as curbs on Tibetans’ cultural rights.
As an AmeriKan, I have no standing to comment. As for the U.N. and their position, all I see these days is a tool of global government. Maybe it was a good idea once, but the men behind it and the men who set it up were not altruistic idealists.
Pillay said she had ‘‘several exchanges’’ with the Chinese government on the issue and her rare public criticism of Beijing’s conduct on human rights appeared to reflect a measure of frustration.
Go tell it to Israel first.
‘‘We felt the time had come to talk publicly about that,’’ a spokesman for Pillay, Rupert Colville, said Friday in Geneva.
“More needs to be done to protect human rights and prevent violations,’’ Pillay said in the statement, urging China to release Tibetans who had been detained merely for exercising such fundamental rights as freedom of expression, association, and religion.
I'm against anyone being oppressed; however, I'm also sick of arbitrary bodies like the U.N. passing on its judgment.
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I really wish they wouldn't burn themselves to death.
Navi Pillay, the high commissioner for human rights, said in a statement that she was disturbed by reports of detentions, disappearances, and excessive use of force against peaceful demonstrators, as well as curbs on Tibetans’ cultural rights.
As an AmeriKan, I have no standing to comment. As for the U.N. and their position, all I see these days is a tool of global government. Maybe it was a good idea once, but the men behind it and the men who set it up were not altruistic idealists.
Pillay said she had ‘‘several exchanges’’ with the Chinese government on the issue and her rare public criticism of Beijing’s conduct on human rights appeared to reflect a measure of frustration.
Go tell it to Israel first.
‘‘We felt the time had come to talk publicly about that,’’ a spokesman for Pillay, Rupert Colville, said Friday in Geneva.
“More needs to be done to protect human rights and prevent violations,’’ Pillay said in the statement, urging China to release Tibetans who had been detained merely for exercising such fundamental rights as freedom of expression, association, and religion.
I'm against anyone being oppressed; however, I'm also sick of arbitrary bodies like the U.N. passing on its judgment.
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"Rights groups: 5 Tibetans self-immolate in 2 days" by Louise Watt | Associated Press, November 09, 2012
BEIJING — Tibetan protests against Chinese rule intensified around the opening of a pivotal Communist Party congress as three teenage monks and two other Tibetans set themselves on fire over two days, activists reported Thursday....
Since March 2011, dozens of ethnic Tibetans have self-immolated in ethnically Tibetan areas to protest what activists say is China’s heavy-handed rule over the region. Such protests have become more frequent in recent weeks, apparently aimed at the party’s weeklong conference to unveil the country’s new leadership that opened Thursday.
‘‘These protests are aimed at sending the next generation of China’s unelected regime a clear signal that Tibetans will continue to fight for their freedom, despite China’s efforts to suppress and intimidate them,’’ Free Tibet director Stephanie Brigden said in a statement.
Free Tibet also said that the three monks, at ages 15 and 16, were the youngest to self-immolate....
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"Surge in self-immolations in Tibet" by Christopher Bodeen | Associated Press, November 29, 2012
BEIJING — Two dozen Tibetans have set themselves on fire in western China this month in a dramatic acceleration of the protests against authoritarian Chinese rule, activist groups say.
The surge in self-immolations, along with an increase in large demonstrations, mark a new phase in the Tibetan protests.
At least 86 people have set themselves on fire since the immolations began in 2009. In a change in recent months, most self-immolators now are lay people — some of them acting together — rather than Buddhist monks and nuns who can be more closely watched by the authorities because they live in tightly monitored monasteries.
The protests have also sought to avoid direct attacks on authorities and government property, acts used in past to label them as riots or terrorism, providing an excuse for greater oppression.
In the wake of the Boston Marathon Bombings that sounds so familiar to Americans. So China has agent provocateurs, too, or are those just AmeriKan assets?
Despite the altered approach, observers see little short-term possibility of Beijing changing its repressive policies.
In the latest immolation....
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The surge in self-immolations, along with an increase in large demonstrations, mark a new phase in the Tibetan protests.
At least 86 people have set themselves on fire since the immolations began in 2009. In a change in recent months, most self-immolators now are lay people — some of them acting together — rather than Buddhist monks and nuns who can be more closely watched by the authorities because they live in tightly monitored monasteries.
The protests have also sought to avoid direct attacks on authorities and government property, acts used in past to label them as riots or terrorism, providing an excuse for greater oppression.
In the wake of the Boston Marathon Bombings that sounds so familiar to Americans. So China has agent provocateurs, too, or are those just AmeriKan assets?
Despite the altered approach, observers see little short-term possibility of Beijing changing its repressive policies.
In the latest immolation....
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"Tibetan activist freed after 17 years in prison in China" by Andrew Jacobs | NY Times Syndication, April 03, 2013
BEIJING — A Tibetan activist whose long detention by Chinese authorities drew international scrutiny has been freed after serving 17 years in prison, exile groups reported Tuesday.
When is the "international community" going to start scrutinizing Gitmo? No one is leaving there -- unless it is in a body bag.
The activist, Jigme Gyatso, 52, who returned to his hometown in China’s northwest Gansu Province Monday, was said to be extremely frail after years of torture and poor medical care, according to Radio Free Asia and the exiled Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala, India.
Well, that is one area AmeriKan torture centers rank above the Chinese. From what I understand, they have the best medical care the AmeriKan government can give them. Now if only I could get the same (without the imprisonment and stuff).
‘‘He was limping and reported having heart problems and high blood pressure,’’ a friend, Jamyang Tsultrim, told Radio Free Asia. ‘‘His vision was also weak.’’
A former monk, Jigme Gyatso was sentenced for ‘‘leading a counter-revolutionary organization’’ after he and a group of friends secretly advocated Tibetan independence. The crimes he was accused of by a Chinese court in 1996 included a role in distributing pro-independence leaflets and hanging a banned Tibetan flag at the Ganden monastery near Lhasa.
Although the Chinese government has jailed hundreds of Tibetans for political crimes, Jigme Gyatso’s case garnered international attention after the authorities allowed Manfred Nowak, the UN representative, to speak to him in 2005 during a visit to the prison where he was being held. In his report, Nowak urged officials to release Jigme Gyatso and cited the widespread use of electric batons, exposure to extreme temperatures, and sleep deprivation in Chinese prisons.
(As an AmeriKan citizen, blog editor must remain silent. Can't criticize anyone for such things)
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Time to bury this story:
"Landslide buries 83 in Tibet" by Gillian Wong | Associated Press, March 30, 2013
BEIJING — A massive landslide engulfed a gold mining area in mountainous Tibet, burying 83 workers believed to have been asleep early Friday, Chinese state media said.
Now the CIA's and Empire's interest in Tibet are clear.
About 2.6 million cubic yards of mud, rock, and debris swept through the area as the workers were resting and covered an area measuring about 1.5 square miles, China Central Television said.
The official Xinhua News Agency said the workers in Lhasa’s Maizhokunggar County worked for a subsidiary of the China National Gold Group Corp., a state-owned enterprise and the country’s largest gold producer.
The disaster is likely to inflame critics of Chinese rule in Tibet who say Beijing’s interests are driven by the region’s mineral wealth and strategic position.
They are acting just like AmeriKa.
News reports said at least two of the buried workers were Tibetan while most were believed to be ethnic Han Chinese. More than 1,000 police, firefighters, soldiers, and medics were deployed to the site.
The reports said the landslide was caused by a ‘‘natural disaster.’’
Not a HAARP?
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