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When did killing civilians become a doctrine of Buddhism? These monks burned down houses, shops and cars along with people in there. They beat innocent children to death!! Notice that the hans(the major ethnic group in China) and the huis(Chinese muslims) are victims. What do we call these people who kill civillians? TERRORISTS!! Do not waste your sympathy on TERRORISTS!!!I guess no one reads Chinese here, but if anybody can, please check the following report by an Hong Kong based independent media.<a class="user" href="http://news.ifeng.com/mainland/200803/0317_17_445619.shtml&quot;&gt;http://news.ifeng.com/mainland/200803/0317_17_4456 ...</a>

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We need their money Big L, they just see us as stupid customers.....Bush mortgaged the house so his sponsors could make money off the War in Iraq...........blame Bush and every dumbf**k(if your poor) or genius(if your rich) who voted for Bush/Cheney and then re-elected them....it's not really China's fault, we made our bed and now we're sleeping in it.

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If anyone wants to keep getting the word out there, please sign the petition at <a class="user" href="http://www.nospintalk.com/content/view/36/1/&quot;&gt;http://www.nospintalk.com/content/view/36/1/&lt;/a&gt;recommend it, digg it, sign it, tell the governments of the world to make China behave a little better. Otherwise they can be told to kiss our collective asses.

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To argue Tibet not part of China, please visit website: <a class="user" href="http://newschecker.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;http://newschecker.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt; ; to see hidden side of Dalai Lama, please visit website: <a class="user" href="http://www.newspiritualbible.com/index2&quot;&gt;http://www.newspiritualbible.com/index2&lt;/a&gt; ; to verify the truth of Tibet uprise, please visit website: <a class="user" href="http://newschecker.blogspot.com/2008/03/who-lie-ab&quot;&gt;http://newschecker.blogspot.com/2008/03/who-lie-ab&lt;/a&gt; ... then welcome make your comments after visiting the above three websites..............................

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"Communist regime needed a reason, an excuse, to shutdown Tibet and start killing them off"???You mean the violence is just a make-up? Who made them up? The Communist regime? You smart tibetans.

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Would boycotting China's Olympics for repressing the Tibetan caste system be like the US government's 1980 boycott of the Soviet Union's Olympics because the Soviets fought the Taliban?

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Beijing over Toronto? WTF was the IOC thinking, the WORLD should send a clear message to those TYRANTS in CHINA!!!

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Most westeners, and certainly most people here, have no idea of the history of China & Tibet, what Tibet represents for the Chinese people, and what life in Tibet was like under the regime before the communists took charge.The western media seem prepared to accept that we "liberated" Iraq... but not that the chinese communist party liberated an enslaved, illiterate and starving Tibetan populace from the stranglehold of the ruling landlords of the time, and their allies, the Nationalist Party. The Chinese may not have elected their government, but they are proud of the progress that has been made since the 1949 revolution. They recognize that their government is not perfect, prone to corruption, often unjust etc but it is their government, and the vast majority recognize the dramatic improvement in living standards, women's rights, education etc. Even those who suffered under the cultural revolution will now defend their government against attack by largely ignorant westeners taking the moral high-ground, not because they are brainwashed or stupid... but because for all it's faults they love their country, and they trust their government to move slowly but surely in the right direction. The next thing they want is not democracy or a free press: they want social security and healthcare.What does "Free Tibet" actually mean? A return to Tibet under the control of the 1959 rulers would be the equivalent in France of a return to pre-french-revolution days. And before you talk about the "cultural genocide" in Tibet... first read up on the history. While you're at it, check out the history of the other Chinese "minorities", and the relationship between them and Han Chinese. Contrary to most western countris, China has NEVER tried to colonize further afield than the borders that 2000 years of history books loosely refer to as China - for many years China was composed of different regions with different cultures and languages. In the west we cannot even begin to understand how the Chinese view their country's borders, and how most Tibetans/Mongolians etc view China.Do not believe all the anti-chinese propaganda you are bombarded with in the US and Europe any more than you'd believe the Chinese press. Examine carefully both sides of an argument - if you write off one side of an argument as propaganda, chances are that both sides are in fact playing the same game, no? Take a look at US/European actions in the Middle East, Northern Ireland, Vietnam, The Basque country, Corsica, Afghanistan etc before criticising China's actions in Tibet.The western press is as selective in the articles and photos it chooses to show as the Chinese media, and uses a vocabulary specially chosen to influence public opinion. Where are the images and video of Monks (or at least, people in Monk outfits) destroying property? Where are the photos of the (unarmed!) Chinese police behind plexiglass screens with bloodied faces after being attacked with bricks and molotov c**ktails? Where are the interviews with renown Monastry leaders refuting claims that Monks were behind the violence? Where are the ordinary Tibetans who refute the claims of the separatists? Where are the statistics on what the Chinese have brought to Tibet since 1959 in education, healthcare, living standards, corruption, etc? You cannot simply take the view that any information that goes against your beliefs in "how things are" MUST be propaganda, false information, staged interviews... The western press would have us believe that the Chinese regime is an inhuman, brutal and corrupt dictatorship that imprisons anyone for anything, and executes people without trial. A bit like the old idea that Russians (and all communist regimes) were dangerous monsters who wanted to rule the world or blow it up. Would you be surprised to learn that most top Chinese politicians are popular family men, with wives, children and grandchildren, eager to serve their country and do the right thing for the Chinese people? We may disagree with how these leaders got into power, but it is ridiculous to imagine that they are all evil monsters.All we hear about China in the western media is SARS, poisonous paint, dangerous toys, cheap and nasty manufactured goods, human rights problems, state-run media, inscrutable faces that all look the same, dirty poultry markets, massive pollution, the "invasion" of Tibet... Have you ever thought that WE might be the one's being brainwashed? The goal is to instill fear of China and the Chinese, a bit like the phrase "A black man..." that Michael Moore's comments on in the US media news reports.How many civilian deaths and tortured political prisoners can be blamed on the western "liberation" of Iraq, compared with the Chinese "liberation" of Tibet. One man's "invasion" is another man's "liberation"...On cruelty to animals by the Chinese: I could show you as many photos of animal cruelty from Europe or the US as those you have seen from China. The Chinese government does not condone inhumane treatment of animals, and the Chinese as a people treat their pets as well as anyone here. The goal is to create a knee-jerk reaction to photos that are carefully chosen to shock you into anger, not against human beings that treat animals that way, but against the Chinese government... where is the link? It is like attacking Gordon Brown using shocking photos of animal experiments in a UK research lab.As for religious freedom, although in the past any religious practice was outlawed, the Chinese are now free to practise any religion they choose - they are even whole Muslim neighbourhoods in small towns in the middle of China... so religious tolerance in China is not what you have been led to believe.How many of you knew that the British invaded Tibet about a century ago, and that the reason the Dalai Lama has such huge international backing is because he was supported and funded by the CIA and the British when it looked like Russia would get their hands on Tibet? The British wanted Tibet to be annexed rather to India, a British colony!If you think that the "Free Tibet" movement has total legitimacy, you should first read the History of Tibet - the wikipedia article does a pretty neutral job, for once, of explaining the current situation. Just read the facts - Tibet has been more or less under Chinese control since the mongol Yuan dynasty (genghis and kublai khan) first unified China in the 13th century. Read the facts, especially near the end about the "British Invasion" and later, and you may start to understand why westerners are at least, if not more, brainwashed by misleading media reports, than the Chinese.I wish everyone would stop jumping on the Boycott and China-bashing bandwagon, and do some impartial research. Think about the possibility that your own media may also be brainwashing YOU. I am not denying that the Chinese authorities have often been brutal and violent... but we have no moral high-ground from which to sermon the Chinese on that front. So let's stick to the simple question: "Why is public opinion in the West so strongly engaged regarding Tibetan independance?" I could add: "And so blind when it comes to our own governments hidden agendas."The Dalai Lama has been backed by the British and CIA since he left Tibet in 1959. He is the only hope for the West to regain a strategic stronghold in that area, and he has thus been elevated in Western media to an untouchable status, a living god... that no one can possibly criticize because he won the Nobel Peace Prize :/ Remember, the British invaded Tibet at the start of the 20th century, and the West has been working for 50 years to put their smiling Buddhist friend back in place, and slap the Chinese back down a peg or two. The "Free Tibet" demonstrators are puppets of the Western superpowers China-bashing campaign. They want us to fear, and even hate, the Chinese, so our media feed us with images of brutality and violence by the Chinese government. They could easily do the same, but they don't.Think about the possibility that what I have written just might contain some part of the truth, or might not, and read the wikipedia history of Tibet, especially the part about the British Invasion of Tibet to the end:<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tibet&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tibet&lt;/a&gt;

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I forgot to remind you that none of the "bring freedom and democracy to xxxxx" crusades that Bush and his cronies are waging are really about freedom & democracy.Iraq is about OIL.Darfour is aboout OILTibet is about WATER!Whoever controls Tibet controls the water supply for half the planet.

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To those saying that I am what's wrong with America and ignorant, would you care to notice that I'm Australian?

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When things get hot, the ostrich digs a hole to hide its head in the dirt. All that's showing are its long legs and its...At least my ass has something intelligent and factual to say. Yours? Where did I put that clothes pin?

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