Han Shan speaks out on the Olympic Torch Relay in Tibet

Han Shan speaks out on the Olympic Torch Relay in Tibet. In addition to raising concerns that Chinese authorities are escalating repression to ensure a protest-free torch relay, Tibet activists have pointed out that it's highly inappropriate to allow the Olympic torch to go through areas facing a severe clampdown, including a large military presence, house-to-house searches, arbitrary detentions and arrests, beatings, disappearances and a climate of fear and intimidation. Since Beijing was awarded the Games in 2001, Tibetans and their supporters worldwide have vigorously appealed to the IOC not to allow the Chinese government to use the 2008 Olympics in its attempts to legitimize its rule in Tibet.

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[ProudLiberal110]

@shijieheping123 So how does it feel to know you'll ALWAYS be wrong? U took the tourch thru Tibet & everyone thought it was hateful propagada & if you skipped Tibet it would have proven Tibet isn't a part of China! Hahaha must suck to be Chinese.

[julesUK2007]

I think Jacky, you may be failing to grasp the issues.

[banzaidawan]

How did you like the BEST OLYMPICS EVER, STUPID?

[xXJackyLooXx]

What an unfortunate tibetans but they deserve it for making the world unpeace...

a slave nation, how can be a master... sigh

I'm sorry for chinese coz they have to live with mad cow... neighbourly, sigh again.

[wwchak]

Too bad, game is over. False alarm is also over. This guy talking on the atreet is an idiot.

[lcsxwtian]

Who fucking gives a shit about what he thinks?

[shijieheping123]

People in Tibet would've felt hurt and discriminated against if the torch went everywhere in China but Tibet. Luckily, that did not happen.

[bg24955]

correction: china proper ended the system of serfdom around 200BC (by the guy who build the great wall.) Tibet did at 1959AD. China don't have feudal lordship in the western sense. conforming to the Confucians governance, no feudal lord owns both land and its people.

[yche332]

who on earth care about what he is talking about?

[billk61]

By Chinese people I meant the people living within traditional Chinese lands and speaking Chinese for many generations. So you are right, that excludes people like the Bai, Dai, Yi and so on, who have a long history of active engagement with the Chinese speaking majority. I think "Han" is a relatively new concept and refers to cultural history as I did above.

However, Tibetan people do not see themselves as Chinese so my terms reflect their understanding.