March 20, 2008 By Ewa
Last year my heart was given a brightly woven shield by the people of Tibet. I stumbled on the lush hills of Dharamsala, in an instance my eyes watered up, my heart melted into softness and my body weighed a penny. In an instance, I knew there was something important to […]
In 1936 the Olympic Games were opened by Adolph Hitler in Berlin, Despite global concern about Nazi racist policies, forty-nine nations participated. Hitler saw the Olympics as an opportunity to demonstrate the superiority of the so-called Aryan race, but the hero of the day was African American Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals […]
Shaky cell-phone videos from Tibet foretell doom for the Chinese empire.
By Anne Applebaum
Cell-phone photographs and videos from Tibet, blurry and amateur, are circulating on the Internet. Some show clouds of tear gas; others burning buildings and shops; still others purple-robed monks, riot police, and confusion. Watching them, it is impossible not to remember the cell-phone […]
March 18, 2008 by Raj Gopal
In my opinion the free world is not supporting Tibet as they should. Look at Australia, They openly say Tibet is a Part of China. Russia has no scruples as long as China is buying their arms. But what about the so called free countries, like US UK, Germany and […]
Beijing was chosen as the host city for the Games of the 29th Olympiad on 13 July 2001. Amnesty International kicked off its campaign to demand the Chinese government create a lasting and positive human rights legacy for the Beijing Olympics in August 2005 with the publication of The Olympics Countdown 每 three years of […]
As we can see and know already, it was a mistake to bring the olympic games to
China. This country has not yet matured for such an honour, as long as the
government representatives of China repress their own people and the
Tibetans .
‘Rise Up, Resist, Return’; the motto of the Tibetan People’s Uprising Movement applies to all of us because this is a movement of the Tibetan people. We have lived in exile for a very long time and struggled from the onset for independence. Each beat of every Tibetan heart is a longing, a wait for […]
The riots can be seen in the light of a quiet child finally fighting back against the playground bully
In the biggest protests since 1989, Tibetans are rising up. Lhasa is tense but quiet under virtual martial law. However, protests and riots have spread to Labrang and Machu, Repkong and Ngapa in the Tibetan province of […]