Every country in d world should not under any country's torque or conquer. It's absolute ridiculous job carried out by the chinese govt killing innocent monks/people/children in Tibet because of asking freedom for their Nation. Everyone should raise the support to tibetan, who's fighting for their rights.. We did our fight nearly 60 years back with british govt. That time none of the people hv supported us except some asian countries...
This time we deeply support our neighbour country, and skipping off olympic torch rally is a nice way to express our support the tibetan who's fighting for the rights in tibet.. Also it will give more attention to all over the world people about this issue.. Regards, Shanmugam
RE:Good Job
by keith pavlak on Apr 17, 2008 05:10 PM Permalink
Supporting tibet's right to protest is all fine...please remember, this could backfire big time on us...I dont think we should embarass a billion chinese.We plan to the host the common-wealth games soon...i'd like to know what our response would be if the Kashmiris start protesting or the people of assam,nagaland and manipur show dissent? Also, there is no real justification for this, there are other peaceful and not so peaceful independence movements going across the world which no one cares for or takes up...the tibetian cause all of a sudden takes center stage because the leader of the tibetian people is also a media rock star and hugely popular with the US, also the media likes to project tibet with its old world romanticsm.THERE IS no doubt that the Tibetan people are entitled to rule their own country, to nurture their unique culture, to promote their religious institutions and to prevent foreign settlers from submerging them.But are not the Kurds in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria entitled to the same? The inhabitants of Western Sahara, whose territory is occupied by Morocco? The Basques in Spain? The Corsicans off the coast of France? And the list is long. Why do the world's media adopt one independence struggle, but often cynically ignore another independence struggle? What makes the blood of one Tibetan redder than the blood of a thousand Africans in East Congo?What then causes the International Media to discriminate?I support the tibetans but not ready to join demos.
Tibet had been a free country until it was overrun by china around 1950s.
It wasn't the case with kashmir (it was added to india & pak from earlier rulers during and after partition with british approval) or assam wherein the local people enjoy all the freedom and democracy(unlike today tibet wherein its more of ethnic cleansing)
And tibet is closer to india where, being a part of china is not good for india.
We cant do a thing about Congo or any other country, but this is something thats of importance to our security and its being truthful to the tibetans as well...
still, india is fearful of china, and it does not have a stand of its own.
we have given asylum to tibetans but we cant take a strong stand against chinese oppresion. thats the fact at the moment...
