Our government surrenders everywhere – Fernandes.

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Has India been judicious in its response to developments in Tibet or has it allowed itself to be bullied by Beijing? That is the key issue Karan Thapar discussed on Devil’s Advocate with former defence minister George Fernandes.

 

Karan Thapar: As someone who has been a supporter of Tibet for 50 years, what’s your view of the Indian response to developments in Tibet?

 

George Fernandes: India has sold out to China.

 

Karan Thapar: Has India been bullied by China?

 

George Fernandes: Absolutely and it accepts it.

Karan Thapar: So this is a shameful response from India.

 

George Fernandes:Yes.

 

Karan Thapar: I want to discuss with you certain specific things. Was it fitting and proper that a meeting fixed between the Dalai Lama and the Vice President two months ago should have been canceled because it was going to happen in the present circumstances.

 

George Fernandes: It should not have happened and it shows what I said earlier…

 

Karan Thapar: That India has sold out to China?

 

George Fernandes:Yes.

 

Karan Thapar: In other words the Vice President should have met the Dalai Lama?

 

George Fernandes:Yes.

 

Karan Thapar: Would you say it was a discourtesy to cancel the meeting.

 

George Fernandes: Yes it is.

 

Karan Thapar: The second thing I want to discuss is the fact that the Indian Ambassador in Beijing allowed herself to be summoned by the Chinese foreign office at 2 in the morning. By attending on the Chinese at 2 in the morning did she end up belittling and demeaning India?

 

George Fernandes: Well our Government allowed it. It has no shame.

 

Karan Thapar: You are saying Delhi should have told the Ambassador in Beijing – you must not go at 2 AM in the morning, wait till the next day.

 

George Fernandes: Yes that is what it should have been elsewhere it is how it happens.

India footballer in Tibet protest

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India’s football captain Baichung Bhutia has refused to carry the Olympic torch during its journey through the Indian capital Delhi later this month.

He told the authorities the move was in protest against China’s crackdown on Tibetan demonstrators, officials said.

India has not allowed large-scale Tibetan protests against China, which is hosting the Olympics this year.

Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has lived in India since fleeing his homeland in 1959.

India is also home to more than 150,000 Tibetan exiles.

Tibet’s government-in-exile, based in India, says up to 140 people were killed in a crackdown by Chinese security forces since anti-China riots began two weeks ago.

Beijing disputes this, saying rioters killed 18 civilians and two police officers during the protests.

Sympathy

“I sympathise with the Tibetan cause. This is my way of standing by the people of Tibet and their struggle. I abhor violence in any form,” Bhutia told the Times of India newspaper.

Bhutia is a Buddhist who comes from the north-eastern Indian state of Sikkim which has long been claimed by China as its own territory.

The footballer told the newspaper he had not been requested by any group to pull out of the torch run.

“This is an absolutely personal decision. I feel what is happening in Tibet is not right and in my small way I should show my solidarity,” he said.

The Indian Olympic Association, which is organising the flame’s journey through Delhi on 17 April, has invited several top athletes to participate.

India-China relations

On Sunday, China’s State Councillor Dai Bingguo called upon Indian National Security Adviser MK Narayanan to “understand and support” China’s policy towards Tibet.

Beijing said Mr Narayanan had reiterated that the government in Delhi viewed Tibet as part of China.

India has in the past been sympathetic to the Tibetan cause but in recent years Delhi’s relations with Beijing have improved.

India has not allowed large-scale public protests over the recent unrest in Tibet.

Earlier this month, more than 100 Tibetan refugees were detained in India while attempting to march to the Chinese border.

Contradicting videos of fight for free tibet.

I have recieved some mails which contradict the earlier videos and articles and they say that tibet was a part of china from long back. Since we ,who are outside from the TIbet – to know the truth we should know the both faces of a movement :-
here are videos which contradict the earlier videos and blame western media for their undue importance to China’s internal matter:-
1] Tibet was ,is and always be a part of china.
2]Riot in Tibet: True face of western media .

Clash that ’sparked’ Tibet’s violent protests

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Fight for a free Tibet.

Though i thought to write an article about Tibet i just had the feeling that it is the internal matter of China; we the Indians don’t agree with a third nation’s interference in the Jammu and Kashmir issue ,then how can we comment on Tibet – this was my confusion. One of the friend has rised this question of why the pro – naxal or naxals are not commenting about this tibet issue?
First we should know the history:- Read the below lines from history . After reading if any person or a nation supports china then they are either blind folded maoists without humanity or are gaining lots and lots of benefit in the form of trade from China. This blog from now on will continuosly track the FREE TIBET MOVEMENT. THERE IS ONE THING WHICH IS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE THAN – MAOISM,GANDHISM,MARXISM,LENINISM, SOCIALISM , CAPITALISM – - HUMANITY .

Despite forty years of Chinese occupation and various policies designed to assimilate or sinify Tibetans and to destroy their separate national, cultural and religious identity, the Tibetan people’s determination to preserve their heritage and regain their freedom is as strong as ever. The situation has led to confrontation inside Tibet and to large scale Chinese propaganda efforts internationally.
1949-51 The Chinese Invasion
China’s newly established communist government sent troops to invade Tibet in 1949-50. A treaty was imposed on the Tibetan government in May of that year, acknowledging sovereignty over Tibet but recognizing the Tibetan government’s autonomy with respect to Tibet’s internal affairs. As the Chinese consolidated their control, they repeatedly violated the treaty and open resistance to their rule grew, leading to the National Uprising in 1959 and the flight into India of Tibet’s head of state and spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
The international community reacted with shock at the events in Tibet. The question of Tibet was discussed on numerous occasions by the U N. General Assembly between 1959 and 1965. Three resolutions were passed by the General Assembly condemning China’s violations of human rights in Tibet and calling upon China to respect those rights, including Tibet’s right to self-determination

After 1959: Destruction

The destruction of Tibet’s culture and oppression of its people was brutal during the twenty years following the uprising. 1.2 million Tibetans, one-fifth of the country’s population, died as a result of China’s policies; many more languished in prisons and labor camps; and more than 6000 monasteries, temples and other cultural and historic buildings were destroyed and their contents pillaged. In 1980 Hu Yao Bang, General Secretary of the Communist Party, visited Tibet – the first senior official to do so since the invasion. Alarmed by the extent of the destruction he saw there, he called for a series of drastic reforms and for a policy of “recuperation”. His forced resignation in 1987 was said partially to result m his views on Tibet. In 1981, Alexander Solzhenytsin still described the Chinese regime in Tibet as “more brutal and inhumane than any other communist regime in the world.” Relaxation of China’s policies in Tibet came very slowly afer 1979n and remains severely limited.
Attempted Tibet-China Dialogue

Two delegations were sent by the Dalai Lama to hold high-level exploratory talks with the Chinese government and party leaders in Beijing between 1979 and 1984. The talks were unsuccessful because the Chinese were, at that time, not prepared to discuss anything of substance except the return of the Dalai Lama from exile. The Dalai Lama has always insisted that his return is not the issue; instead, the question that needs to be addressed is the future of the six million Tibetans inside Tibet. It is the Dalai Lama’ s opinion that his own return will depend entirely upon resolving the question of the status and rights of Tibet and its people.

Alarming Chinese Influx

In recent years the situation in Tibet has once again deteriorated, leading in 1987 to open demonstrations against Chinese rule in Lhasa and other parts of the country. One of the principle factors leading to this deterioration has been the large influx of Chinese into Tibet, particularly into its major towns. The exact number of Chinese is difficult to assess, because the vast majority have moved without obtaining official residence permits to do so. Thus, Chinese statistics are entirely misleading, counting as they do only the small numbers of registered immigrants. In Tibet’s cities and fertile valleys, particularly in eastern Tibet, Chinese out number Tibetans by two and sometimes three to one. In certain rural areas, particularly in western Tibet, there are very few Chinese. Regardless of the figures, the overall impact of the influx is devastating because the Chinese not only control the political and military power in Tibet, but also the economic life and even cultural and religious life of the people.
The Chinese military as well as the civilian build up in Tibet has been a source of great concern to India, as it impacts directly on India’s security. Tibet acted for centuries as a vital buffer between China and India. It is only when Chinese troops faced Indian troops on the Indo-Tibetan border that tensions, and even war, developed between the world ` s most populous powers. The more Tibet is converted into a Chinese province, populated by Chinese, the stronger China’s strategic position along the Himalayas will be. China’s growing military reach has now become a source of concern to many Asian nations as well as to India.
The Dalai Lama’s Proposals
In 1987 the Dalai Lama proposed a Five-Point Peace Plan for the restoration of peace and human rights in Tibet The plan called for:
1. Transformation of the whole of Tibet into a zone of Ahimsa, a demilitarized zone of peace and non violence.
2. Abandonment of China’s population transfer policy, which threatened the very existence of the Tibetans as a people.
3. Respect for the Tibetan people’s fundamental human rights and democratic freedoms;
4. Restoration of and protection of Tibet’s natural environment and abandonment of China’s use of Tibet for the production of nuclear weapons and dumping of nuclear waste;
5. Commencement of earnest negotiations on the future status of Tibet and of relations between the Tibetan and Chinese people.