From: Real_Tibetans@tia.lhasa.tb
Subject: WHAT REAL TIBETANS THINK?
Originator: Real_Tibetans@tia.lhasa.tb
 
 
Organization: Tibetan Information Agency
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 19:44:24 GMT

In an article posted Aug. 26, 1992, usenet@alf.uib.no wrote:
 
>About the discussion I only want to give some facts.
>(1) Our team should pay entrance fee to Mt. Qomolongma region.
>(2) Everyone know that there is something called Family Plan in China, but
>it is not found in Tibet. I met a Tibetan famer, Doji, who speaks Chinese.
>He have three daughters and still want a son. (3) About the living standard,
>Doji lives in Rongbuk valley leading to Mt. Qomolongma. He has three cows
>(not yarks) and several tens of sheep. I belive that he is richer than some
>Han famers living 100 kilometers north from Beijing. (4)I derectly ask him if
>he likes Tibetan independence. He said NO and that after the independence
>he would be forced to support monasteries qingke(a sort of weater) and
>butter, and lamas and monks would be high class on them.
>(5) In Xigaze, the second city in Tibet, I found Chinese soldiers
>cleaning the streets in early morning(I have the picture). (6)
>From a Xiegar County offical, I got that the gorvenment pays money to rebuild
>monasteries. In fact, in Rongbuk monastery which is nearest to Mt. Qomolongma
>and highest located in the world, there are 10 monks and 17 nuns now.
>(7)Compared with two years ago when I was in Tibet, more new buidings are found
>in Lahsa. In Zaxilunbu monastery, Xigaze, several new buiding has been
>constructed and one is being building. Pudala Palace is being renewing too.
>(8)In the army, armed police and police, there are alot Tibetans.
>It is easy to find Tibetan armed policemen guarding the gate of Tibet
>Autonomous Region Gorvenment.
>(9) Finally, for me, a Han people, it is not easy to speak to Tibetans. Most
>of Tibetans don't speak my language. And everywhere, I can see typical
>Tibetan artworks and culture.
 
Having dealt with Chinese spies long enough, not many Tibetans are likely to 
speak their mind to Chinese tourists.  So perhaps it is not surprising that 
Doji was not openly in favour of TI.  Westerners are regularly mobbed by 
Tibetans crying for a photo of the Dalai Lama.  These people do not behave as 
if they lived as "slaves" under the Dalai Lama before the invasion of Tibet.  
Tibetans often ask Western tourists to take back messages begging the West 
to help oust the occupying Chinese government.  That is one reason Western
tourists are not allowed to travel in Tibet except under strict supervision
by Chinese authorities.
 
Tibetans continue to flee Tibet by the thousands, and Chinese soldiers 
continue to shoot them as they cross the border.  Here is a recent UPI report:
 
  [UPI 9/02/92] KATMANDU -- A Tibetan was killed and two others injured
  Wednesday when a police patrol fired on a group of Tibetans trying to flee
  across the border into Nepal, police said. The two injured Tibetans were
  admitted for treatment to Bir hospital in Katmandu after being bussed into
  the city from the Okhandunga border region, a doctor at the emergency ward
  said. Some 21 Tibetans from the group were bussed into Katmandu either for
  treatment or questioning, police said. 
 
Do these seem like happy, smiling Tibetans?  
 
Tibetans want independence!  China out!
 
 
A committee of real Tibetans.
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