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Dalai Lama blasts 'brutal crackdown' in Tibet

World Mar. 10, 2009 - 02:28PM JST ( 6 )

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nutsagainMar. 10, 2009 - 05:27PM JST

So what does this man want? A return to the old theocracy and serfdom, brutal taxes imposed by the monasteries of the past? The Tibetans were a flat earth society, deeply ignorant in temporal matters. This doesn't excuse the Han Chinese from their behavior but at least the Tibetans now have running water, electricity, trains, adequate medical services etc. A Shangrila it certainly wasn't.
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TeruSenseiMar. 10, 2009 - 08:59PM JST

The Dalai Lama is a great and cunning politician.

He's very good at laying forth his agenda.

Or he's very senile.

Either way, I have no time for him.
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smithinjapanMar. 10, 2009 - 11:29PM JST

TeruSensei: "Either way, I have no time for him."

Yes, well... I guess he'll have to wipe you off the top of his list, then. Ha.

Seriously, there's no justification for what the Chinese have done, regardless of what the place was like before. I doubt the Chinese will ever give the place up, so it's hard to suggest what should be done, or what good can be done.
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Good_JorbMar. 11, 2009 - 06:28AM JST

So what does this man want? A return to the old theocracy and serfdom, brutal taxes imposed by the monasteries of the past? The Tibetans were a flat earth society, deeply ignorant in temporal matters.

Tibet has always been a part of China(aleast that is what China says, internal issue and all) and therefore those taxes imposed by the monasteries of the past were paid as tributes to China. As well China allowed all the serfdom to occur well Tibet was under the dominion of Chinese rule.
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ThonTaddeoMar. 11, 2009 - 06:39AM JST

The Dalai Lama does want independence for Tibet, but knows that it's not politically feasible and that the Chinese would really make things miserable for them if they demanded that. So he goes with what's more politically palatable.