Re: TIBETANS SLAM DALAI LAMA PORTRAIT BAN AS PROVOCATIVE

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Water Barbarian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>But those liars had been saying that DL's protrait was banned
>several years ago. Why it need to be banned again?

I think you didn't even read the article. It said the ban had been in
place for years, but many apologists here always say it's only been
strictly enforced in TAR. They often bragged about how easy-going the
authorities were on the issue outside of TAR, and would cite news
reports from Kham or Amdo areas where the portraits caused no fuss by
the police. Well, it seems that has all changed now, and probably
required no more than a central directive to be equally strict in all
Tibetan areas. This childish, intolerant oppression simply spreads to
a wider area than the 1/3 of Tibet's land inside the TAR. It sure says
something about the Chinese government's sincerity in improving their
relations, or establishing mutual trust with the Tibetan government.
While the Tibetan side has gone to great lengths to compliment the
Chinese for having a good attitude during the recent visits, avoids
sharp criticism and even discourages overt protest against Chinese
leaders in order to continually improve the atmosphere, now the
Chinese pull another clampdown on free religous expression. And if you
read it, what was the Tibetan government's response? Something like
"We request the Chinese authorities to reconsider this decision."

It's certainly very clear to me who's making the real effort here.

Brian
-- 
"The People's Government forbids any person, any group, or any organisation,
 in any form or in any place to use any situation to represent celebrating
 the Dalai's birthday, to pray to the Dalai for blessing, to sing prohibited
 songs, to offer incense to the Dalai, or to carry out barley-flour-throwing
 illegal activities". - Lhasa City Government public notice, 24 June 2001