Our Nation Episode 14

News and analysis on the state of Tibet brought to you by Lhadon and Tendor, two Tibetan independence activists living in exile. This daily web broadcast will examine the Tibetan resistance movement in the lead up to March 10th - the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan National Uprising. As the Chinese authorities crack down in Tibet a new era of resistance is evolving, one which Lhadon & Tendor - as Tibetan youth leaders in exile - will examine in depth on this show.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Tibet
• China
• Free
• Freedom
• SFT
• Losar
• March
• 10
• Uprising
• Chinese
• government
• Beijing
• Resistance
• Struggle
• Lithang
• Tenzin
• Dorjee
• Lhadon
• Tethong
• Tape
• Ngaba
• Kirti
• Monastery
• Thupten
• Ngodup
• Self-immolation
• fire
• shot

[yakmanok]

Old Tibet was definately not a paradise but that does not give china license to invade. All the protests in tibet today is carried out by the so called "liberated serfs" wanting to free their country from chinese occupation. I guess the serfs don't like chinese liberating;) them off their culture, language, enviroment and natural resources.

[eastern2western]

I love the fact that the exiles treat every prosecution in tibet as somekind of criminal act, but never consider the possibilities that those could be criminal acts. In a estate of 7 million people, it is always possible that there are criminal acts commited everyday. Being tibetans does not make them teflon protected.

[EdT586]

I think these trolls stop broadcasting, since no one is paying them to now ! ...LoL

[iamlumin]

60 years ago the whole world was different. We know Tibet needed change, that should have been up to us not the Chinese. My family were not nobles or aristocrats, we were free & never had a day without food. A young man was shot to death 3 weeks ago by Chinese soldiers. Tibet is on lock down right now. There was more slavery & even people eating their dead babies in China prior to the invasion of Tibet. My grandparents use to feed starving Chinese people who came across border begging for food.

[hectorbolshevik]

Well, last I checked Tibetans aren't being flogged and mutilated by serf masters, taxed at every birth, death, wedding. I don't think Tibetans live in any kind of paradise under Han chauvinism, but the fact that the PLA brought to Tibetans healthcare, education, industry, housing is nothing less than progressive and democratic ; certainly more than a backwards slave owning Lamaist theocracy. Your last statement shows your family must've been aristocrats before 1959 in Tibet.

[iamlumin]

For Tibetans it's worst than that right now. Tibet is currently on lock down & the Chinese are denying this but pictures show a different reality, and so do first hand observers. Also, internet and phone service is cut off in many areas of Tibet. Sounds like freedom to me. NOT! We want democracy & we want our country back. It's none of China's business how we govern our own country but through force they have made it their business. They do & have done everything they accuse others of doing.

[hectorbolshevik]

There's no way the Chinese will ever allow Tibet to once again become a feudal pro-slavery theocracy under the Dalai Lama. I don't think Tibetans (aside from exiles) want this "freedom" either.

[hectorbolshevik]

The Dalai Lama's closest friends:

The CIA

SA-Oberscharfuehrer Heinrich Harrer

SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer Bruno Beger

Miguel Serrano, a Chilean neo-Nazi leader

U.S Senator Jesse Helms, a pro-segregation, white supremacist politician

This gives you an idea of the truth behind the "Free Tibet" movement, and that a return of the Dalai Lama will only bring back an endless feudal backwards nightmare for Tibet's people.

[moomman89]

We in the USA only hear short stories about Tibet .But I don't think many of us in America get what really is going on over there.I don't get it ether sorry to say.Burning ones self.I don't get this.Whats the point?

[iamlumin]

China can't even survive without the waters that originate in Tibet. Chinese authorities recently acknowledged that the survival of the Chinese nation is reliant on the waters originating in Tibet that are the primary watershed for much of Asia. The real question is. What are all the people in China going to do is Tibet regains its freedom?