Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Tibet and the March 10 commemoration of the CIA's 1959 'uprising'

Has Tibet become the front line of a new national liberation struggle?
Or is something else happening there?
The U.S. news media are filled with stories about events unfolding in
Tibet. Each news report, however, seems to include a note that much of
what they are reporting cannot be confirmed. The sources of the
reports are shadowy and unknown. If past practice is any indicator, it
is likely that the U.S. State Department and the CIA are their primary
sources.
One frequently quoted source is John Ackerly. Who is Ackerly? As
president of the International Campaign for Tibet, he and his group
appear to work closely with the U.S. government, both the State
Department and Congress, as part of its operations concerning Tibet.
During the Cold War, Ackerly's Washington-based job was to work with
"dissidents" in Eastern Europe, particularly Romania in 1978-80.
A private international security agency in Washington, Harbor Lane
Associates, lists Ackerly and the International Campaign for Tibet as
its clients, along with former CIA Director and U.S. President George
H.W. Bush and former Pentagon chief William Cohen.
AP, Reuters and the other Western news agencies all quote Ackerly as a
major source for exaggerated reports about the clashes that have just
occurred in Tibet. For example, MSNBC on March 15 reported:
"John Ackerly, of the International Campaign for Tibet, a group that
supports demands for Tibetan autonomy, said in an e-mailed statement
he feared 'hundreds of Tibetans have been arrested and are being
interrogated and tortured.'"
Qiangba Puncog, a Tibetan who is chair of the Tibet Autonomous
Regional Government, described the situation quite differently at a
March 17 press briefing in Beijing.
According to 
china.org.cn
, China's state Web site, the Tibetan leader
said that allies of the exiled Dalai Lama on March 14 "engaged in
reckless beating, looting, smashing and burning and their activities
soon spread to other parts of the city. These people focused on street-
side shops, primary and middle schools, hospitals, banks, power and
communications facilities and media organizations. They set fire to
passing vehicles, they chased after and beat passengers on the street,
and they launched assaults on shops, telecommunication service outlets
and government buildings. Their behavior has caused severe damage to
the life and property of local people, and seriously undermined law
and order in Lhasa.
"'Thirteen innocent civilians were burned or stabbed to death in the
riot in Lhasa on March 14, and 61 police were injured, six of them
seriously wounded,' said Qiangba Puncog.
"Statistics also show that rioters set fire to more than 300
locations, including residential houses and 214 shops, and smashed and
burned 56 vehicles. ...
"Qiangba Puncog also claimed that security personnel did not carry or
use any lethal weapons in dealing with the riot last Friday. ...
"The violence was the result of a conspiracy between domestic and
overseas groups that advocate 'Tibet independence,' according to
Qiangba Puncog. 'The Dalai clique masterminded, planned and carefully
organized the riot.'
"According to Qiangba Puncog, on March 10, 49 years ago, the slave
owners of old Tibet launched an armed rebellion aimed at splitting the
country. That rebellion was quickly quelled. Every year since 1959,
some separatists inside and outside China have held activities around
the day of the rebellion. ...
"Any secessionist attempt to sabotage Tibet's stability will not gain
people's support and is doomed to fail, he said."
Meeting in New Delhi
Whatever is taking place in Tibet has long been in preparation. A
conference was held in New Delhi, India, last June by "Friends of
Tibet." It was described as a conference for the breakaway of Tibet.
The news site 
phayul.com
 reported at the time that the conference was
told "how the Olympics could provide the one chance for Tibetans to
come out and protest." A call was issued for worldwide protests, a
march of exiles from India to Tibet, and protests within Tibet--all
tied to the upcoming Beijing Olympics.
This was followed by a call this past January for an "uprising" in
Tibet, issued by organizations based in India. The news report from
Jan. 25 said that the "Tibetan People's Uprising Movement" was
established Jan. 4 to focus on the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The
beginning date for the "uprising" was to be March 10.
At the time the call was issued, U.S. Ambassador to India David
Mulford was meeting with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India. U.S.
Undersecretary of State Paula Dobriansky made a similar visit to
Dharamsala last November. Dobriansky is also a member of the neocon
Project for a New American Century. She has been involved in the so-
called color revolutions in Eastern Europe.
Phayul.com reports that the Tibet "Uprising" group's statement says
they are acting "in the spirit of the 1959 Uprising."
The 1959 uprising
Knowing more about the 1959 "uprising" might help in understanding
today's events in Tibet.
In 2002 a book titled "The CIA's Secret War in Tibet" was published by
the University Press of Kansas. The two authors--Kenneth Conboy of the
Heritage Foundation and James Morrison, an Army veteran trainer for
the CIA--proudly detail how the CIA set up and ran Tibet's so-called
resistance movement. The Dalai Lama himself was on the CIA payroll and
approved the CIA's plans for the armed uprising.
The CIA put the Dalai Lama's brother, Gyalo Thodup, in charge of the
bloody 1959 armed attack. A contra army was trained by the CIA in
Colorado and then dropped by U.S. Air Force planes into Tibet.
The 1959 attack was a CIA planned and organized coup attempt, much
like the later Bay of Pigs invasion of socialist Cuba. The purpose was
to overthrow the existing Tibetan government and weaken the Chinese
Revolution while tying the people of Tibet to U.S. imperialist
interests. What does that say about today's March uprising, that's
done in the same spirit?
http://www.workers.org/2007/world/tibet_0327/index.html

una volta vedetti un documentario di history channel sull'argomento la 
cina addestro circa 4000 tibetani su un certo altipiano ma poi 
all'appropinquarsi di alcune divisioni di fanteria cinesi non forně il 
supporto necessario ai ribelli (e come avrebbe potuto farlo in mezzo 
all'hymalaia nel '59...) i cinesi schiacciarono facilmente i ribelli 
ammazzandoli tutti fino all'ultimo.

 sources.
[ Taglio solo per lo spazio ]
#_Era da immaginarsela la politicizzazione dei fatti tibetani da parte di 
una organizzazione troppo avvezza a voler risolvere i fatti degli altri con 
risultati disastrosi.
Spero veramente che si arrivera`comunque ad una soluzione di compromesso, 
prima delle Olimpiadi.
IMO sara`cosi`.
Altre soluzioni non ne  vedo ed e`mia somma speranza che questo avvenga 
prima che la CIA riesca a "procedere" in qualcosa.
La Cina faccia qualche altro sforzo da parte sua e accetti l'esistenza di 
discipline spirituali ( come il Falungong ad es.) con pieno rispetto di 
queste anche nel suo inland...Qui dove vivo, se ne sono rifugiati una 
quantita`considerevolissima e questi non sono portatori di una buona 
immagine di quel grande paese.
Giano