Since March 14th, I have heard/seen a lot of different voices/versions of stories/points/videos/photos about things happened in Lhasa Tibet, I was going to write something about this here on my blog, but I didn’t because of the fact that most people around thought everything is Chinese governments fault, I have no argument with any one here. Here is a very good article that I found which is written by a Chinese oversea student
We are a group of oversea Chinese and are very concerned about the recent situation in Tibet.
We strongly denounce any violence toward civilians recently happened in Tibet and are against any sorts of hatreds among ethnic groups. We support Chinese government’s effort to stop violence and restore order and law in these areas. Just like African Americans in LA, people in Tibet might have every reason to vent their resentment; however, burning and looting shops, beating people from other ethnic groups are not included in the options. Lessons from history and today’s conflicting areas told us: violence can achieve nothing. It will only produce more hot spots and make the world further unsafe.
We call for the media adopt a more balanced perspective to encourage non-violence and reconciliation, to help relieve tensions between ethnic groups, and to avoid escalation of violence in Tibet and neighboring areas.
Although against any attempts to split China, we sympathize with reasonable demands of Tibetan people to improve China’s current policies on cultural reservation and economic development in Tibet. We also support any peaceful and lawful ways to achieve the goal. We strongly believe that non-violence, restraint, and patience are the only right attitude to find possible solutions for any conflicting issues in today’s world.
We also encourage people all over the world to take possible chances, including the Olympics Games, to get to know more about China, to walk into China, to contact ordinary Chinese people. A country with five thousand year history will evolve into a more open and better place within an open and friendly world. China’s past thirty-year’s open-up experience has proved it.
And here is some of my word regarding this incident: PLEASE PLEASE people have a look around of what all media say all over the world, know the facts and history about Tibet(Apparently some protesters do not even know where Tibet is, I gotta say that’s pretty stupid to go on a protest without knowing what you are protesting for), then start to judging the incident or Chinese government depending on those knowledge you have learned. Watch out for misleading like the picture below. This is a screen shot taken on TIMESONLINE.co.uk at about 1am today(24th March 2008).
and here is a video about Tibet incident from New Zealand TV3 news:
and here.. please do NOT do this:
