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Tensions rise in Tibet as Chinese security forces bring fear to the streets

2012-02-02

Chinese security forces
No doubt suffering from altitude sickness
are cracking down on the basic liberties of the Tibetan people. Witnesses report random home searches and warnings not to discuss politics on calls outside the country.

According to Stephanie Brigden, the director of Free Tibet, Chinese authorities are using intimidation and surveillance to install a culture of fear.
Is that something new?
The latest crackdown in Tibet and surrounding provinces was prompted by Beijing's fear that protests in neighboring Sichuan province by Tibetans could spread to Tibet. Chinese authorities claim that in neighboring Sichuan, "mobs" of rock-wielding Tibetan separatists attacked police stations and civilians.

Posted by:Mike Ramsey

#8

Reference #7:

London's Heathrow Airport. I was just there yesterday. Without the signage, you'd never know where you were.

Posted by: Besoeker 2012-02-02 18:59

#7 I think that a new word is needed, combining the concepts of genocide with gradualism. Using "slow force" to displace a people from their land, taking their resources, denying them commerce, while giving advantages to the invading peoples, until they so outnumber the locals that the locals can be marginalized into extinction.

While going on for a while in Tibet, the Chinese are also carrying this out in other minority regions, such as among the Uyghur in western China.

This has happened a lot in history, but is almost never thought of as a genocide, though it accomplishes the same goals.

The use of force in such situations is always measured, but not based on the level of resistance, but on the advancement of the program.

Oddly enough, this is common throughout the world, most often used as an effort to "Islamicize" a place via immigration.

Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-02-02 18:57

#6 Last time I went to Denver I felt kinda out of it the first two days. By the third day I was back up to snuff.

Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-02-02 16:05

#5 Can't live up there? Nonsense. There is nothing magical about the air that people can't aclimate too. That is why the Chinese built/are building a rail connection. To move a large population up there.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2012-02-02 14:52

#4 Han Chinese cannot live "long term" at the altitudes that make up most of Tibet. They get there and start to get sick (and tired). I dont think most Han want to be shipped to Tibet and most Tibetans dont want to have to live with Han Chinese, I mean who would?

Posted by: 746 2012-02-02 10:57

#3 Perhaps the Tibets are realizing that they've been checked by Chinese rail lines and attempts to bring Chinese up into Tibet, and if they don't do something demographic trends will basically eliminate them.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2012-02-02 10:15

#2 EU condemnation in 5..4..3

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-02-02 02:01

#1 ION DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > CHINA DEMANDS [demanded] ITS SHARE OF ARUNUCHAL PRADESH, during the Sino-Indian Special representative talks which ended 01/17th.

Indjuh was not happy as it was hoping to discuss other matters.

* WOLRD NEWS > CHINA PROTESTS JAPAN ISLANDS-NAMING PLAN. Up to 39 islands + islets, etc. including the China-claimed Daoyus = Japanese Senkakus.

* TOPIX > AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE PLAN CALLS FOR US TO SEND MORE [US Navy] NUCLEAR VESSELS.

* RUSSIA TODAY > JAPAN WON'T GET KURIL ISLANDS - MIRONOV [Fair Party].

versus

* TOPIX > US BI-PARTISAN STRATEGY TO CLOSE [surplus] OVERSEAS BASES.

Bases Review Panel startup for proposed new BRACS.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-02-02 00:18

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