new website counters "free tibet" campaign
evanr...@msn.com
myths put out by the "free tibet" campaign, that is supporters of the Tibetan
government in exile.
I oppose this campaign as it glorifies ex-serfowning theocrats like the Dalai
Lama, and more importantly it is part of preparing public opinion for moves
by the U.S. government in the direction of war against China.
--Evan Roberts
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Nathaniel Krause
On 3 May 2001 evanr...@msn.com wrote:
> My new website, http://members.home.net/tibetmyth, exists to counter the
> myths put out by the "free tibet" campaign, that is supporters of the Tibetan
> government in exile.
>
> I oppose this campaign as it glorifies ex-serfowning theocrats like the Dalai
> Lama, and more importantly it is part of preparing public opinion for moves
> by the U.S. government in the direction of war against China.
Well, those are certainly good reasons, much better than the ordinary
nonsense we receive from CCP-supporters on this ng. Still, I think you
hit the nail on the head in your article with, "'No country is allowed to
invade, occupy, annex, and colonize another country just because its
social structure does not please it.' --Now this is a real point. It
couldwell be applied to the many wars carried out by Washington in order
to prevent or reverse anti-capitalist revolutions. And I don't intend to
justify the Chinese occupation --it was up to Tibetans to make a
revolution in Tibet." To say the very least, if China really just wanted
to fix the Tibetan social system, they could have marched in, freed the
serfs, given the peasants weapons to resist the aristocrats, and then
left. By the same token, if the Chinese left today, it would likely not
mean a return to the old order in Tibet, so the flaws of that system are
probably not relevant.
Nathaniel Krause
Bud Swanson
<Pine.GSO.4.31.010505...@ux8.cso.uiuc.edu> :
Aside from that is HHDL a "theocrat"? He certainly doesn't talk like one.
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HH Dalai Lama 14 on position and his hopes for a Tibet run by Tibetans"
.....Personally, I have made up my mind that I will not play any role in the future government of Tibet, let alone seek the Dalai Lama's traditional political position in the government.
There are important reasons why I have made this decision. There is no doubt that the Tibetans, both in and outside Tibet, have great hope in and reverence for me. From my side too, I am determined to do whatever I can for the well-being of my people.....
However, in the future I will not hold any official position in the government. I will most likely become some sort of public figure who may be called on to offer advice or resolve some particularly significant and difficult problems which could not be overcome by existing government or political mechanisms. I think I will be in a better position to serve the people as an individual outside the government....
..My hope is that Tibet will then be a zone of peace where environmental protection becomes the official policy. I also hope that Tibetan democracy will derive its inspiration from the Buddhist principles of compassion, justice, and equality. Apart from being a multi-party system of parliament, the future Tibetan political system, I hope, will have three organs of government, namely legislature, executive, and judiciary, with clear separation of powers between them, each independent of the others and all vested with equal powers and authority.
(from tibet.com web site)
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Dalai Lama pledges a democratic Tibet ahead of Rome visit
Rome, Oct 24 [1999] (AFP) - Tibetan spiritual and political leader, the Dalai Lama, pledged that a free Tibet would be democratic as he prepared for talks with Italian leaders in Rome, according to a newspaper report Sunday.
The Dalai Lama was expected in the Italian capital Monday, six days after beginning the Italian leg of a worldwide tour in Milan.
Tibet's future system would no longer be theocratic but democratic, the exiled spiritual leader said in an interview with the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera.
The 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner, who fled to India in 1959, nine years after Chinese troops occupied Tibet, has renounced independence for the territory and called for its political and administrative autonomy, with non-violence being the only way to make progress.
"I for one have decided to give up any political role in such a future Tibet," he told the paper.
"And if Tibetans believe that they no longer need the religious institution of the Dalai Lama, I will leave that decision in their hands, too," he added.
Italian Culture Minister Giovanna Melandri last week pledged her country's support for the Tibetan cultural cause and called for more frequent and more profitable exchanges.
Referring to Tibet's recent history, Melandri said: "Not only do we have feelings of admiration, but also of solidarity for the wrongs and the injustices that have been suffered by a small people."
In Milan, the Dalai Lama's stay featured the opening on Wednesday of an exhibition on Tibetan art and spirituality, four days of prayer and spiritual teaching and a concert in his honour Sunday by Tibetan and Italian artists.
In Rome, at the end of his nine-day stay, he was to have talks with Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema and other political leaders.
(Agence France Presse)
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"....The Tibetan struggle is not about my personal position or wellbeing, but about the freedom, basic rights and the cultural preservation of six million Tibetans, as well as the protection of the Tibetan environment. As early as in 1969 I made it clear that it is up to the people of Tibet to decide whether the very institution of the Dalai Lama which is over three hundred years old should continue or not. More recently, in a formal policy announcement in 1992 regarding the future polity of Tibet I stated clearly that when we return to Tibet with a certain degree of freedom I would not hold any position in the Tibetan government. I have always believed that in
the future Tibet should follow a secular and democratic system of governance. I am certain that no Tibetan, whether in exile or in Tibet, has any desire to restore past Tibet's social order....."
Statement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the Forty-Second Anniversary of Tibetan National Uprising - March 10, 2001
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