Whew. Got the old look back.

Wonderful channel !

FREEDOM FOR TIBET!!!!

You see? I'm pretty good with copy-and-paste as well;)

In the late 1950s and 1960s, the CIA trained hundreds of counterrevolutionary exiles in sabotage and terrorism. This took place on bases from Saipan to Virginia, including the main center of Tibetan operations: Camp Hale, in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

U.S. intelligence documents, which were released in the late 1990s, document the close relationship between the CIA, the Tibetan exile movement and the Dalai Lama personally: "[F]or much of the 1960s, the CIA provided the Tibetan exile movement with $1.7 million a year for operations against China, including an annual subsidy of $180,000 for the Dalai Lama." (12)

The International Campaign for Tibet, the Tibet Fund, the Tibet Voice Project, the Tibet Information Network, the Tibetan Literary Society, the Tibetan Review Trust Society and the Voice of Tibet all advance the progressive-sounding call for a "Free Tibet." They are all funded by the NED, which is itself funded by the U.S. State Department and the CIA.

For more than 50 years, the CIA and other U.S. government agencies have trained, funded, coordinated and supported the old feudal and repressive regime in Tibet represented by the Dalai Lama. The CIA front group the National Endowment for Democracy funds the International Campaign for Tibet, the Tibetan Youth Congress, the Tibetan People's Uprising Movement and the Dalai Lama himself. The U.S. maintains close ties with the Tibetan "government-in-exile" in India, whose real aim is to break away a region making up a quarter of China's territory. These U.S. actions constitute an effort to de-stabilize and dismember the Peoples Republic of China. The progress in education, women's rights, employment and health care would be immediately eviscerated if the old serf-owning ruling elite, represented by the Dalai Lama, was brought back to power.

"Every month we had to give presents to the teachers: one pound of butter, one pound of cheese and meat. If the parents did not provide these things the teacher was much stricter with the child."(A18)

"The school fee was 150 yuan a year but we also had to give the teachers presents. Sometimes my mother went to school and gave the teachers a whole cartoon of some alcohol. The teachers could not force us to give these presents, but if we did not give them then the teacher would target us and we would be made to be unhappy in school."(A27)

39% of Tibetan students interviewed having to pay bribes to their teachers or the authorities: "Every year I had to pay 300 yuan school fees and an additional 15 yuan for each month. If there was a broken window, or a new broom for the classroom was needed, the teachers collected money from the Tibetan students to pay for this. The Chinese students never had to pay anything."

"At Chinese festival days we had to bring clothes, food and money for the Chinese students. The Chinese students did not have to bring anything."(A2)

@bandiereRosse, you didn't answer the question - where are the missing serfs?