I have read 'Seven Years In Tibet' by Heinrich Harrer, it is of course an invaluble eyewitness account of pre invasion Tibet. Harrer was of course more famous as a mountaineer, but his eyewitness accounts are valid. It was first published in 1953, a long time before 'Free Tibet' became a trendy cause celebre in Hollywood. The book is not politically motivated, in my opinion.
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The uprising are mainly small scaled disturbance rather than organised millitary violence.
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denotes a staggeringly wrongheaded misunderstanding of the situation. There is no Tibetan army to stage a military revolt. It may astonish you to learn that the Chinese would not allow the formation of a Tibetan Army. Over 87,000 Tibetans were murdered by the Chinese after the 1959 uprising - those are Chinese figures by the way. Care to justify them?
As for 'inconvenient truth' the fact of the Chinese genocide in Tibet seems to be an inconvenient truth to you. I can only reiterate, there was no need for the Tibetan people to be subjected to a genocide in order to foster economic development. Is that hard to understand?
The Dali Lama is, in my opinion, a disaster for Tibet. He's just not radical or angry enough, why he refers to the murderous Chinese invaders as 'Brothers' defies me! As for real politic; the Chinese will free Tibet when, and only when they are forced to pay too high a price for their continued and illegal occupation. Had the Dali Lama taken a leaf out of the IRAs book we could be looking at a free Tibet right now. It's a pity he did not. The Chinese occupation was on shaky ground, at least for the first few years.
Mass immigration of Han Chinese into Tibet was forced on the Tibetans by the Chinese and their brutal occupation. It's not something the Tibetans ever wished for.
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What kept "democracy" and other evils such as "racism" and "class exploitation" alive at the same time for hundred of years?
Prior to the civil rights moement, Soviets were massively campaigning against that and regarded "racism" as the Achilles' heel of western Imperialism, in contrast to the socialist version of "New Soviet man" based on equality.
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Since when has democracy been an evil? I would assert that the civil rights movement in the USA would have happened whatever the Soviets said. As for the 'New Soviet Man', wasn't he supposed to come into existence in 1985? Has anybody heard from him since?
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Advocating separatism/secessionism against the Nation is against the law in China, from what I know, just as the public order act of UK which criminalise
certain speech.
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Oh No! I have broken Chinese Communist law! How will I ever forgive myself?
Olympic Flame, is the Chinese Government paying you to lurk on forums spouting the same Chinese lies about Tibet? Why are simply vomiting out the same lies the Chinese propoganda machine has been putting out about their illegal occupation on Tibet for the last few decades?
Try reading and understanding at least some of the following:
Free Tibet Campaign - Major Allegations: Key Facts on the Chinese Occupation of Tibet
'A Strange Liberation; Tibetan Lives In Chinese Hands' by David Patt.
'Fire Under The Snow; Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner' by Palden gyatso.
'Waiting For The Sun' by Mary Craig.
I hope they are not too full of 'inconvenient truths' for you!