Jamyang Norbu Interview Excerpts

Jamyang Norbu is a noted author, blogger and activist in the forefront of the Tibetan struggle for independence from China. While he has many supporters, he is also controversial within the Tibetan community for criticizing the Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration for eventually taking a "middle way" position of accepting Chinese rule, seeking only autonomy within it.

Norbu began working in the Tibetan Government-in-Exile in 1968, and was part of the Tibetan resistance in Mustang, Nepal from '71 to '72, just when the CIA was beginning to pull their aid. Mainly charged with getting intelligence on China, he also helped raise funds to keep the resistance alive until the Dalai Lama finally put an end to the Mustang base in 1974. Among other involvements in Tibetan activism, culture and academia, he was a president of the Tibetan Youth Congress, director of Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, and co-founder of the Amnye Machen Institute for advanced studies on Tibet.

He currently lives in the US, blogging on jamyangnorbu.com and rangzen.net (rangzen is Tibetan for independence), and writing his latest book, a literary history of Tibet's fight for freedom. Here are some excerpts from my interview with him on August 29.

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@ russianblueOrDeath

So I don't understand why Tibetans are reluctant to favourite Disp. Undercover in Tibet which is is currently on youtube in 5 parts as

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"Undercover in Tibet 2008". If people who know nothing about Tibet watch that 48 minute documentary they get a far better insight into Tibet is really like than visiting Tibet with people who have little knowledge of Tibet in my opinion.

[HumanRightsVideosT]

@ russianblueOrDeath

Because I'm not a Tibetan its not up to me to say what Tibetans want. I don't think Tibet needs China its the other way around because of Tibet's resources.

But in New Zealand most people know next to nothing about Tibet and many have been brainwashed including 4 of my relations. There are many China Friendship Societies in NZ.

[russianblueOrDeath]

...continue to support a policy that has caused a huge division within our people, caused apathy for the movement itself and worse of all, created a whole new class of Ngabos who are always so eager to be the first to see wisdom in becoming Chinese, extolling their many virtues of co-existence, when overwhelming evidence is there to show that they are only intersted in wiping us off the face of the earth. Not co-existence. no genuine autonomy. They are just playing with Hope and we are buying

[russianblueOrDeath]

@HumanRightsVideosT I think you made the point yourself. if China is not giving anything, then why bother to give away your most cherished status of a nation, a govt, and claim oneself to be proud Chinese? why disrespect thousands who actually died fighting for our country by proudly proclaming Ngabo as a Patriot. I get acid in my mouth whenever I think about that. If they are not going to give us anything, like they have proven to us in the 9 rounds of talks so far, then why do you ...cont.

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@ russianblueOrDeath

History shows us that

No Empire Lasts Forever. So I don't know why people don't like the middle way.

Anyway its obvious that the Regime of China isn't going to give the Tibetans anything, so there isn't much point in asking for anything now. The Regime of China likes keeping the powerful in China happy, including looting Tibet.

[russianblueOrDeath]

@HumanRightsVideosT Apparently you don't.

[HumanRightsVideosT]

@ russianblueOrDeath

Do you know the full implications of the middle way ?

[russianblueOrDeath]

Telling the truth since 1986 before the Middlepath traitors sold out Tibet for some stupid bullshit.