Free expression Tibet Lhasa March 2008 chinese army "monks"

London, March 20 - Britain's GCHQ, the government communications agency that electronically monitors half the world from space, has confirmed the claim by the Dalai Lama that agents of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the PLA, posing as monks, triggered the riots that have left hundreds of Tibetans dead or injured.
GCHQ analysts believe the decision was deliberately calculated by the Beijing leadership to provide an excuse to stamp out the simmering unrest in the region, which is already attracting unwelcome world attention in the run-up to the Olympic Games this summer.
For weeks there has been growing resentment in Lhasa , Tibet 's capital, against minor actions taken by the Chinese authorities.
Increasingly, monks have led acts of civil disobedience, demanding the right to perform traditional incense burning rituals. With their demands go cries for the return of the Dalai Lama, the 14th to hold the high spiritual office.
Committed to teaching the tenets of his moral authority---peace and compassion---the Dalai Lama was 14 when the PLA invaded Tibet in 1950 and he was forced to flee to India from where he has run a relentless campaign against the harshness of Chinese rule.
Discovering that his supporters inside Tibet and China would become even more active in the months approaching the Olympic Games this summer, British intelligence officers in Beijing learned the ruling regime would seek an excuse to move and crush the present unrest.
That fear was publicly expressed by the Dalai Lama. GCHQ's satellites, geo-positioned in space, were tasked to closely monitor the situation.
The doughnut-shaped complex, near Cheltenham racecourse, is set in the pleasant Cotswolds in the west of England . Seven thousand employees include the best electronic experts and analysts in the world. Between them they speak more than 150 languages. At their disposal are 10,000 computers, many of which have been specially built for their work.
The images they downloaded from the satellites provided confirmation the Chinese used agent provocateurs to start riots, which gave the PLA the excuse to move on Lhasa to kill and wound over the past week.
What the Beijing regime had not expected was how the riots would spread, not only across Tibet , but also to Sichuan , Quighai and Gansu provinces, turning a large area of western China into a battle zone.
The Dalai Lama has called it "cultural genocide" and has offered to resign as head of the protests against Chinese rule in order to bring peace. The current unrest began on March 10, marking the anniversary of the 1959 Uprising against Chinese rule.
However, his followers are not listening to his "message of compassion." Many of them are young, unemployed and dispossessed and reject his philosophy of non-violence, believing the only hope for change is the radical action they are now carrying out.
For Beijing , the urgent need to find a solution to the uprising is one of growing embarrassment. In two weeks time, the national celebrations for the Olympic Games start with the traditional torch relay. The torch bearers are scheduled to pass through Tibet . But the torch could find itself being carried by runners past burning buildings and temples.
A sign of this urgency is that the Chinese prime minister has now said he is prepared to hold talks with the Dalai Lama. Just before this announcement, Britain 's Prime Minister Gordon Brown declared he would meet the Dalai Lama, who is to visit London next month. This is the first time either leader has proposed to meet the Dalai Lama.
Tenzin Wangmo DUNCHU (Ms.)
Coordinator

BUREAU DU TIBET (EU Coordnation Office)
Avenue des Arts 24
1000 Brussels

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[kentfeng888]

the maker is a stupid Japanese!

[chezfranck]

May be is stupid but not japanese...

Just look my name, even if you are not very very clever, is not japanese right?

Be happy, learn how to read and try not to be too much racist if you can...

God bless you and may you, one day, see the light!

Franck

[amos325]

It happend in earlier 90s, they were making a movie at the time. Just look at their uniforms, which is not the ones PLA wearing today. DO NOT fool people with your fales images.

[chezfranck]

Hi,

Please loock the video again, make pause and READ Please! OK?

The photo is from 2003! It's written on the video...Didn't you see???

Did you also read what is written on the right side??? I guess not...Please do it!

have a good day anyway. God Bless you.

[wenf200]

Huh, come on! This picture is out-dated and has already been proved a lie. You should tell us some fresh lies instead of searching back to the 2003 movie "The Touch". Be professional, liars! :)

[chezfranck]

Hi,

Please loock the video again, make pause and READ Please! OK?

The photo is from 2003! It's written on the video...Didn't you see???

Did you also read what is written on the right side??? I guess not...Please do it!

have a good day anyway. God Bless you.

[lucasx25]

Lamas weren't violent in the tibet event, there wasnt any Monks in the riots. Monks started a peaceful march China initially send police to maintain the order. I tHINK then separatists ignite the riot with discontent young generation tibetans

[zhuhaoyue1013]

That picture was taken in 2000~those policemen were going to make a film called "Legend of Tibet"~

[MsKushh]

this picture speaks a volume. Chinese soldier dressed like monks and create situation to justify their kiliings of Tibetans. World has seen on numerous occasions how low chinese can stoop. They don't even spare toddlers, killig human is like a video game for them..they eat their own infants and newborn believing that their peanut sized dick will grow like a genetically modified carrots.

[Hope4freedom76]

Epic Fail.

[chinaguitou]

党棍五毛真是无所不在。不过谎言终究是谎言，人民眼睛雪亮。

[Vash6the6Stampede]

1. The photo was taken in 2003 during the making of a film.

2. The uniforms of those soldiers proved it. Because these old uniform were no longer in use since 2005.

3. The pathetic news said it was taken from the space by a satellite. The pathetic writer had no clue that satellites only take top-down photos with really bad resolution which could barely see people.

That is, you could barely see someone from straight down if it was taken by a satellite.

[Vash6the6Stampede]

Not to mention the fact the riot left Han Chinese dead. Because the rioters were Tibetans.

Loser like this causes a destabilized world. There should be laws to get these losers who produce fake information shot.

[Vash6the6Stampede]

@1tashdor

This was a photo taken years ago during a making of a film.

[1tashdor]

you cant trust chines government. they can do anythink prove wrong for his holines dalai lama. did u see that pictures? chines soldiers pretenting like monk and distroyed things.. all propoganda.. They dont think they luck to face leader like Dalai lama. I wish they face to binladin then there will more concewunences in china..

[weissman2000]

This picture was taken before 2004. It is just a typical example of some people's intension: to lie in order to create a fake impression of the truth for own political gains. Bravo, then calling the Chinese propagandists!