The Last of the Black Tents

This 4-minute video segment looks at the changing lives of the Tibetan nomadic people living on the Qinghai plateau. Their way of life has been untouched for centuries. But Chinese authorities are relocating the nomads into concrete dwellings. By 2010, 80 percent of the nomads are to be moved into these isolated townships, according to Chinese state media. This video depicts some gruesome imagery of live in these state-created dwellings. An old lady is shown, picking flesh off of a dead yak, to scrounge for a meal. View more Mekong coverage at www.rfa.org/english/multimedia/MekongProject.

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People & Blogs

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• nomad
• Khampa
• Zaduo
• Tibet
• Tibetan
• Mekong
• river

[Camerotas1]

Why not allow these Camper Nomads live as they have lived for thousands of years. In Tibet, I saw Lhasa being changed to a mini=China, and work created for Chinese, but nothing for the Tibetans. chinese Governments, could try protecting the rights of this community, as they are worth protecting..

[ChinaKillsTibetans]

The communists are just trying to justify their illegal invasion of Tibet which began in 1949 and is still continuing in 2010 with subsidised Han Chinese migration.

Chinese settlers get the best jobs. For Tibetans in the countryside living conditions remain precarious.

FREE Tibet, South Mongolia, East Turkestan and China

[ChinaKillsTibetans]

Forced cultural assimilation for the Tibetans

watch?v=FZMnW6Vu8AU

(2:40 minutes)

shows some of the cultural assimilation Tibetans are being subjected to.

Free Tibet from Cultural Genocide

[heomak]

I know a friend who returned to Tibet after many years and she was surprised at the amount of Chinese billboards and road signs everywhere. As a Tibetan, she said she felt like she was in a Chinese town as opposed to a Tibetan one. Sad.

[PriolTorcy]

@Camerotas1 > Malheureusement, le gouvernement chinois veut sédentariser les nomades.

[Ganeschar]

These situation reminds me of Mongolia Situation !

[TerakuOimikado]

i have no idea why chinese commies keep saying they have provided lots for tibetans. besides lhasa where thousands of chinese move to, every year..theyre not doing anything for tibetans. this makes me WANT to be a seperatist.