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Originally Posted by samwoo2go
buddhism is the main religion for the Hans (the ruling communist party) and they are allowed to pratice and pray as they wish.
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if that is the case, why does the chinese government plant informers within tibetan monastaries and force monks to undergo "patriotic reeducation"? are you saying the chinese government closed down 90% of tibet's monastaries in the name of religious freedom?
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the government is only against those "monks" in tibet that use religion as a mask to promote social unrest and attempts to test the sovegnity. To the Chinese government, thats domestic terrorism.
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this sounds awfully similar to burma doesn't it? it seems that the chinese communist regime is not much different than the military junta in burma. kinda scary isn't it.
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BESIDES, at the bare minimum, at least the Tibetans have not have to be slaves for the last 50 years as well. Its like taking a kid from Africa where he has no food and water and bring him to America and give him food and water and thats it. Pretty soon, hes going to forget about the pain of going hungry and cry for toys. Whats worse off a kid thats crying for toys or a kid thats crying for food?
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are you claiming that china rescued starving tibetans by giving them food and water? you seem to be forgetting some of communist china's unpleasant history. remember Mao's great leap forward between 1959 and 1962? The forced collectivization of agriculture resulted in the biggest famine in modern history with an excess of 15 million people within china starving to death during which over 100,000 tibetans starved to death. don't believe me? look it up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
by the way, the 15 million deaths is the government's own statistics, the actual number is believed to be far higher.
china didn't rescue starving tibetans. china caused the tibetans to starve to death.
just because you didn't know about it doesn't mean it didn't happen. it just means the communist chinese government has succeeded in suppressing its own unpleasant history. it is painful to comtemplate the fact that there are hundreds of millions of chinese in china and worldwide who are growing up now without knowledge of these events. as they say, those who forget history and destined to repeat it.