Tibet students protest at Beijing campus

BEIJING, March 17 (Reuters) - Dozens of students held a sit-down protest at a university for ethnic minorities in Beijing on Monday, bringing pro-Tibetan demonstrations to the sensitive capital for the first time.
The protest in the Olympic Games host city came hours before a deadline for rioters in Lhasa to turn themselves in after street violence in the capital of the Buddhist Himalayan region in which dozens are believed to have died.
About 40 students were staging the sit-down at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing after many were taken away, onlookers said.
Any student protest in Beijing is significant, bringing back memories of the pro-democracy student protests around Tiananmen Square in 1989 which were crushed by the military with great loss of life.
Teachers were urging their students to get up and leave the protest.

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[youni1983]

想独立的自己打包裹走吧有种一辈子不要回中国！西藏当然要留下，­笑话，又不是你少数几个的西藏　是全中国人民的西藏　你要独立你走，喜马拉雅永远屹立在她原来的地方，你要搬运也可以­啊，介绍你买美国的大型铲车。。。呵呵祖国啊，邪恶无处不在，但­我坚信你一定可以顶住，八国联军，小日本，还有我们自己不争气的­内战你都坚持过来了，所以根本用不着害怕那些傻兮兮的想独立的走­狗 圣经说－－要爱你的国，爱你的民族，我们是你的儿女怎么可以不爱­你？？？为什么西方的列强蹂躏过你千百次还不罢休，还要用虚假的­新闻来污蔑你？生活还是要继续，就像你依然会强大无论有多少的干­扰，这是事实！藏独者，请你们离开中国，但是西藏必须留下。如果­你说不，那好啊，说有本事把西藏这块地搬到你想去的地方，地球很­大，地球不够，还有宇宙。从来没老美问华人－－你认为加州是美国­的吗？那一天，这些本来就不需要问的问题终于不需要再问了！最后­对所有的想独立的人说－－你可以走，但是地盘留下。就像每个长大­要独立的人一样，难道走之前还要在他亲妈身上挖块肉？

[dokpabhu]

@jack123u ... Stop lying to yourself and living a fake life.

[bigfathippo53]

@explorubus last time i checked Tibetans weren't Westerners.

[paulkaikwonglee]

@unit45x , you;re so right. US is truly a mentor to China in a way that waging senseless wars around the world can bankrupt a country. So China will definitely not go down the same foolish path US has made and continue to make.

[jack123u]

fake news

[unit45x]

Power is a funny thing....do you think China wants to fight with the US? Really? The money seems more important than the territory, both in trade and in debt. If China uses force on Taiwan, maybe the US won't pay back the Trillions of dollars it owes? And, the US is China's biggest trading partner...Plus a war would be expensive in just so many ways. Taiwan is happy being separate. Will that really change? I don't think so, not anytime soon anyway....

[unit45x]

as well as applies to the scenario of 1927 Communist Revolution against the Nationalist Government; hence, one would have to pessimistically expect that the Chinese communists would commit suicide by themselves one way or the other [e.g., attacking Taiwan] in order to see a revolution similar to the Xin Hai Revolution that had overthrown Manchu rule in 1911.

[unit45x]

People who had hoped for a change at this juncture might be disappointed should no significant mourning-related activity or political loosening happen in China. It is understandably so. Note that in history, China's dynastic substitution was mostly the results of mutiny or foreign invasion, except for Yellow Turpans of Eastern Han Dynasty and Red Turbans of Yuan Dynasty: mutiny applied to Li Zicheng & Zhang Xianzhong rebellion in late Ming Dynasty, and Xin Hai Revolution in late Qing Dynasty,

[unit45x]

On Jan 17th 2005, reformer Zhao Ziyang, after 15 years of house arrest, passed away. Before his passaway, Zhao Ziyang was said to have commented that there was "no cure " for China.