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Shootings Prior to Olympics Highlights Plight of the Tibetans

By Wang Hua
The Epoch Times
Mar 28, 2008

Tibetan activists in-exile take part in a sit-in protest in New Delhi on March 28, 2008. China requires the Dalai Lama to stop sabotaging the Olympics as a condition for talks, Chinese President Hu Jintao told his US counterpart George W. Bush, according to the Chinese foreign ministry. (Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images)
Tibetan activists in-exile take part in a sit-in protest in New Delhi on March 28, 2008. China requires the Dalai Lama to stop sabotaging the Olympics as a condition for talks, Chinese President Hu Jintao told his US counterpart George W. Bush, according to the Chinese foreign ministry. (Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images)



Gunfire on the eve of the Olympics undoubtedly bring more uncertainties to Beijing that is already constantly embraced by sandstorms. It is reported that the Chinese Communist Party has gathered armed forces in Tibet with troops from Gansu and Sichuan, and has mobilized 10,000 regular troops and 4,000 police from Jilin, which is thousands of miles away from Tibet.

Every college Tibetan student in Changchun City is followed 24 hours a day by three men. Such a state of suspicion and fear can only signify the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has so much fear of the Tibetans that it is alienating itself from the people.

Are the Tibetans really so horrifying? Anyone who knows about Buddhism would know that the Tibetans, with their fundamental belief in Tibetan Buddhism, are simple and kind. They quietly endure the pains and difficulties in life without the slightest resentment or resistance, and take it as the path to eternal wealth.

On the contrary, according to the investigation by international community, the Chinese Communist Party has killed at least 100 innocent Tibetans in Lhasa. Witnesses have come forward to testify that local police officers, disguised as civilians, have instigated violence and attacked people with knives.

After nearly fifty years under the Chinese Communist Party and its policy of assimilating Tibet, along with the destruction and looting of the natural resources and culture of Tibet, the younger generations, infected with the communist creed of atheism and class struggle, have developed a strong hatred of the CCP. This is undoubtedly retribution for the evil deeds of the Chinese Communist Party.

For full coverage please see Repression in Tibet

As for whether or not Tibet is a part of China, the history is very complicated, not as simple as is stated by the CCP. It is strange that no one in the CCP hierarchy spoke out when Jiang Zemin gave 3 million square kilometers of land on the Sino-Russian border to Russia an area equivalent to one hundred of Taiwans, free of charge. It shows its true nature when the CCP, after giving away so much Chinese land, threatens war and uses violence when it comes to Tibet and Taiwan.

Confucius said, "If people who become estranged are not submissive, (we) need to cultivate civil culture and virtue to attract them to be so." At present the core of the Tibet issue is that the Chinese Communist Party has forcibly denied the Tibetans' spiritual beliefs.

To be allowed as a monk to enter the temple, one must support the atheist Party that persecutes all religions. One must criticize their reincarnated living Buddha in India, the exiled Dalai Lama.

However, regardless of the billions of dollars the CCP has spent on changing Tibet, the Tibetans maintain their beliefs and are willing to put down everything for three years to go on the journey to make pilgrimages to the holy land, kowtowing every three steps and bowing every five steps. Their spirit of praying for quietness and peace is something the brainwashed atheists can not comprehend.

Overall, the core of the Tibet issue is that the Tibetans fighting for basic human rights and religious freedom, which the Chinese Communist Party has strongly and forcibly denied. The CCP is facing a situation where "When people are not afraid of death, death is no longer a threat." The reoccurring protest by the Tibetan after 49 years under the CCP's thumb demonstrates the determination of the Tibetans to maintain their cultural traditions and religious beliefs. Armed forces and political pressure will not change the will of the people.

The Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly ignored and denied the requests of the Dalai Lama, who constantly calls for a peaceful settlement of the conflict and stresses "the premise of one China and an autonomous Tibet." As a consequence, the Tibetans continually rise against the brutal violence of the Chinese Communist Party.

On the eve of the Olympics, the entire world is watching as the Chinese regime uses violence to sustain its evil actions. It is obvious that the Chinese Communist Party's days are numbered.

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