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For Dalai Lama the introduction of train service to Tibet from China, in reality, was just like a dagger making his way through his heart. Ironically, his attempts to keep Tibet away from the clutches of China have further tightened its grips. At this point of time it has become imperative for Tibetans to save its cultural landscape, if not greenery, from the well-calculated political onslaughts of the Chinese government.
I wonder what has made US, the global watchdog, to turn a blind eye to political, social and cultural alienation of the Tibetans. I am afraid that with time cultural legacies of Tibetans would become a thing of past as Chinese come to strengthen their presence in this art of the globe. Sadly, Chinese government has been successful in shattering the citadel of Tibet’s strange existence on the World’s map.
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When US and other countries can be hypersensitive about violation of human rights in Afghanistan,Iraq and etc. then why are they are silent over the misdeeds of China in Tibet? Do they practice double standards while dealing with cases pertaining to double standards ?
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Today from the legal standpoint, Tibet to this day has not lost its statehood. It is an independent state under illegal occupation. Neither China’s military invasion nor the continuing occupation by PLA has transferred the sovereignty of Tibet to China.
As pointed out earlier, the Chinese government has not claimed to have acquired sovereignty over Tibet by conquest. Indeed, China recognises that the use or threat of force (outside the exceptional circumstances provided for in the UN charter), the imposition of an unequal treaty or the continued illegal occupation of a country can never grant an invader legal title to territory. Its claims are based solely on the alleged subjection of Tibet to a few of China’s strongest foreign rulers in the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries.
How can China - one of the most ardent opponent of imperialism and colonialism - excuse its continued presence in Tibet, against the wishes of Tibetan people, by citing as justification Mongols and Manchu imperialism and its own colonial policies?
- Dr. Michael C Van Walt Van Pragg (International Lawyer) The Status of Tibet
http://www.friends-of-tibet.org.nz/occu.html
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China's role in the Tibet is very progressive and positive one. Chinese government has done tremendous development in the region. Tibetans have dual character in fact. They are enjoying the development works in the region and are criticizing the Chinese government for atrocities.
Some facts related with role of China’s progressive role :
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The Central Tibetan Administration states that the number that have died in the Great Leap Forward, of violence, or other indirect causes since 1950 is approximately 1.2 million.[173] According to Patrick French, the former director of the London-based Free Tibet Campaign and a supporter of the Tibetan cause who was able to view the data and calculations, the estimate is not reliable because the Tibetans were not able to process the data well enough to produce a credible total. French says this total was based on refugee interviews, but prevented outsider access to the data. French, who did gain access, found no names, but ”the insertion of seemingly random figures into each section, and constant, unchecked duplication.”[174] Furthermore, he found that of the 1.1 million dead listed, only 23,364 were female (implying that 1.07 million of the total Tibetan male population of 1.25 million had died)[174]. Sinologist Tom Grunfeld also finds that the figure is ”without documentary evidence.”[175] There were, however, many casualties, perhaps as many as 400,000.[176] Warren W. Smith, calculating from census reports of Tibet, shows 144,000 to 160,000 ”missing” from Tibet.[177] Courtois et al. forward a figure of 800,000 deaths and allege that as many as 10% of the Tibetan populace were interned, with few survivors.[178] Chinese demographers have estimated that 90,000 of the 300,000 ”missing” Tibetans fled the region.[179]
Policies were changed, including the revitalization of Tibetan culture and religion and language. [181] However, in 1998 three monks and five nuns died while in custody, after suffering beatings and torture for having shouted slogans supporting the Dalai Lama and Tibetan independence.[182] Projects that the PRC claims to have benefited Tibet as part of the China Western Development economic plan, such as the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, have roused fears of facilitating military mobilisation and Han migration.[183] There is still ethnic imbalance in appointments and promotions to the civil and judicial services in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, with disproportionately few ethnic Tibetans appointed to these posts.[184]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tibet