Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Ferrovia in Tibet

Triste storia che, nonostante i conflitti in Medio Oriente, non
dovrebbe passare inosservata.
Una specie di pulizia etnica lenta, ma non per questo meno dolorosa per
i tibetani.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,427205,00.html
Tibet's Railroad to Perdition
By Richard Gere
The railway from Beijing to Lhasa, Tibet, is a staggering engineering
achievement and a threat to Tibet's identity.
The opening this month of the final segment of world's highest railway,
from Beijing to Lhasa, Tibet, is a staggering engineering achievement
and a testimony to the developing greatness of China. But it is also
the most serious threat by the Chinese yet to the survival of Tibet's
unique religious, cultural and linguistic identity. In the words of a
well-known Tibetan religious teacher who died after many years in a
Chinese prison, the railway heralds "a time of emergency and darkness"
for Tibet.
This railway across the roof of the world will result in an expanded
Chinese military presence in Tibet, accelerate the already devastating
exploitation of its natural resources and increase the number of
Chinese migrants, marginalizing the Tibetan people still further. In
the capital, Lhasa, Tibetans are already a minority.
In the years after China's invasion of Tibet in 1950, thousands of
Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and convents were destroyed, and hundreds
of thousands of Tibetans perished. Today the suppression of religion is
more subtle and less visible to outsiders. Many of the monasteries have
been partly rebuilt, but often they are simply showplaces for tourists.
Obtaining a complete religious education in Tibet is usually
impossible. Even having a photograph of the Dalai Lama is a criminal
offense.
Many Tibetans lost their land to make way for the railway, and Tibetan
nomads are being forced to settle in cities. Without land and religion,
cultures disappear. This is particularly true in Tibet, where the land
itself is regarded as sacred.
And even as their culture is undermined by the railway, most Tibetans
are unlikely to enjoy any economic benefits from it. With a price tag
of more than $4 billion, the Tibet railway is the most ambitious and
costly element of China's current drive to develop its western regions,
known as the Great Leap West. But its construction was based upon the
Communist Party's old strategic and political objectives, and its main
beneficiaries will be the Chinese military units stationed there,
Chinese companies and Chinese settlers. Most Tibetans don't have access
to education that would allow them to compete in the economic
environment created by China's policies, nor are they welcome to share
the fruits of its success.
The opening of the railway to Tibet could not have a greater symbolic
importance to the Communist elite - it is the achievement of a goal set
by Mao more than 40 years ago as part of a strategy to complete Tibet's
integration into China. And sadly, the opening of the railway takes
place in an environment of intensified political repression. The new
Communist Party chief in Tibet, Zhang Qingli, has said that the party
is engaged in a "fight to the death struggle" against the Dalai Lama
and his supporters.
China's president, Hu Jintao, formally opened the railway on July 1. In
the late 1980's, when he was party chief of the region, he presided
over the torture and imprisonment of thousands of Tibetans through the
imposition of martial law in Lhasa. The Tibetans have not forgotten
Hu's role in the oppression of their people. President Hu was also
personally involved in drafting the fast-track development policies
that have been such a disaster for most Tibetans. They are based upon
an urban Chinese model and do not take into account Tibetans' needs,
views or the way of life that has sustained them on the high plateau
for centuries. The Dalai Lama has spoken frequently about the urgent
need to involve Tibetans in the development of their land.
A true "great leap" would make room for a Tibetan role in economic
development, protect Tibetan religious culture and identity, and
welcome the involvement of the Dalai Lama in decision-making on Tibet's
future. Since 2002, there have been several rounds of dialogue between
Beijing and the Dalai Lama's representatives, following a decade-long
diplomatic stalemate, but at present China's commitment to the process
is uncertain.
Tibet's precious culture and religion, with its principles of wisdom
and compassion and its message of interdependence and nonviolence, are
rooted in the Tibetan landscape and Tibetan hearts.
The survival of Tibetan Buddhist knowledge in its own land is vital for
the world, as well as the Tibetan people. China's journey toward
greatness must not include the further destruction of this heritage.

 i tibetani.
Veramente se n'e' scritto qualche giorno fa, in un contesto di PI, e 
anche di buddhismo.
Am.

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Oops. Evidentemente mi sono perso qualche post (ho visto ora quello
intitolato "Exiles' hopes for a free Tibet dimming (Reuters) ".
Se questo articolo di Richard Gere e' gia' stato postato/discusso, mi
scuso per il doppione.

 scuso per il doppione.
C'č di peggio, Broglia.
E grazie per l'interessante articolo, invece.
Tb 

 
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,427205,00.html

 Arabi, non certo l'immigrazione degli Ebrei.
Eccolo di nuovo il *FESSO* razzista d'un Torrieri, il *MONOCOGLIONE 
MONONEURONE*, l'apostolo della *PULIZIA ETNICA* che se la prende con i 
Tibetani, dopo essersela presa con gli Israeliani...
Amalrick De Cesaris

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http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,427205,00.html

 particolarmente gravi...
B: No infatti...
- Un milione e duecentomila tibetani (un quinto della popolazione) sono
morti come risultato dell'occupazione cinese.
- Migliaia di prigionieri religiosi e politici vengono detenuti in 
prigioni
e in campi di lavoro forzato, dove la tortura č pratica comune. Le donne
tibetane sono soggette a sterilizzazione forzata e a procurati aborti.
- Piu di seimila monasteri, templi ed edifici storici sono stati 
razziati e
rasi al suolo, e le loro antiche e insostituibili opere d'arte e i tesori
della letteratura sono stati distrutti o venduti dai cinesi, durante le
'riforme democratiche' prima del 1966, e il rimanente durante la 
Rivoluzione
Culturale, secondo le autorit cinesi.
- Le risorse naturali del Tibet e la sua fragile ecologia stanno per 
essere
irremediabilmente distrutte, come risultato dell'invasione cinese. Gli
animali selvatici sono stati praticamente sterminati, le foreste 
abbattute e
il terreno e stato impoverito ed eroso.
- L'Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite ha approvato tre Risoluzioni 
di
Condanna alla Cina, per 'violazioni dei fondamentali diritti umani del
popolo tibetano' e ha invitato la Cina a rispettare i diritti del popolo
tibetano, incluso il proprio diritto alla auto-determinazione.
- Le cure mediche non sono accessibili a tutti e le strutture migliori 
sono
riservate agli individui di nazionaliti cinese.
( 
http://www.consapevolezza.it/tibet/tibet/situazione.asp
 )
Gabriele

 mostruosita'.
Preferisco chi costruisce ferrovie di congiungimento a chi costruisce
muri di separazione, tutto qua'.     Hanno fatto porcate entrambi, non
lo contesto, eh!
GT

 Tutto qua.
In altre parole non te ne frega un tubo della nazione tibetana, come 
probabilmente non te ne frega un tubo di quella palestinese, ma solo di 
metter bocca nei destini di popoli e genti per mera vanita'. Buono a 
sapersi, merda.
Am.