The reality of returning to Tibet, for those wishing for return, is very distant, according to assessments by independent observers, which paint a picture of a region firmly under Chinese control.
There are allegations of destruction of Tibetan culture, the militarization of the region and the migration of ethnic Han Chinese which has made Tibetans a minority in their own homeland. China's steadfast lack of willingness to negotiate over Tibet's status has thrown considerable doubt on any notion of a mass return of Tibetans. But many questions remain about which path the situation will take once the charismatic, year-old Dalai Lama is no longer around.
Can a non-violent movement be maintained, or will increasing violence dominate the issue? Will international forgetfulness about a long, peaceful struggle, turn into acceptance of the status quo, as China's influence strengthens and more generations of Tibetans are born outside Tibet? For many Tibetans living in India, their movement and culture are anything but forgotten, as young students at a Tibetan school in New Delhi learn traditional dances and Tibetan script in their classes, an epa journalist reported.
It is so appallingly sad that you have had to sacrifice your lives for freedoms that most of us in the West take for granted. I hope and pray it will not be in vain. We pray your sacrifice will not be in vain, and His Holiness can return to a free Tibet. Alike the petals of the White Lotus, my love for all Tibetans is glowing in my heart with the delicate fragrance called Freedom. Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
I deplore these criminal acts of the Chinese government. I salute the bravery of all Tibetans who have died for freedom from Chinese oppression since I honour all of you for standing up for your traditions and your religion. Every sacrifice is significant and is making a contribution to the campaign for justice. I hope and believe that Tibet will one day be free.
We must never lose sight of this. Keep faith brave Tibetans! Lives given, lives remembered not just by a line but in the hearts and minds of many. Tibetan mothers, who have lost your sons and daughters in these terrible times, I remember you.
I have visited your beautiful country and can only grieve for your sacrifice but always will remember your bravery. My hope is that the sense of outrage that many of us feel about the ongoing crime being committed against Tibet and its people will ensure that they are not forgotten.
Gone but never forgotten — may the sacrifice and suffering of the Tibetan people not be in vain and may the world one day see a free Tibet. My sympathy is for the families of those many who have died to uphold the freedom of all Tibetans. One day Tibet will be free. To honour all who have suffered and died to keep freedom alive in Tibet. Like the other catastrophe, Palestine, it is the great shame of our times.
What people do not realise is that if one commits evil, it follows you into the next life, whereby you then suffer in that life. You do not evade punishment — neither will the Chinese.
Thinking of all the people of Tibet, and the families of their fallen. Love and peace. I support the courage of those who stand up for their right to practise their religion and to have freedom in their own country.
I honour the courage and the loyalty of all the Tibetans who have given up their freedom and even their life for the love of their country. We remember all the wonderful people in Tibet who have suffered the onslaught of the Chinese murderers. We promise to publicise your suffering whenever and wherever we can; and all of your work to liberate your beautiful country once again. Free Tibet!! In memory and huge respect to Tenzin and all the Tibetans who have lost their lives in the name of freedom.
May the Tibetan culture be restored and freedom for all Tibetan people return. In memory of all those who have died for Tibet under the Chinese occupation. Hoping from the bottom of my heart that one day Tibet will rightfully be returned to its people, who have shown such incredible strength and resilience in the face of such adversity. People all around the world are thinking of you and sending you so much love. My heart cries for Tibet. Have been there twice My soul recognizes all souls.
Every morning I pray for Tibet to be free. Breaks my heart to see that money and power is more than a life, more than a world, more than who we are. I hope all living beings will wake up from this stupid mechanism of hate, unconsciousness and bad decisions. To honour the many brave Tibetans who have lost or given their lives in their fight for a free Tibet.
After the protests were put down, security ramped up, with internal movement restrictions, roadblocks, and an even greater police presence. The series of self-immolations that have been taking place across Tibet represent one response to this repression. Since February , at least Tibetans have set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule. Suicide as protest has a long history in China and in several religious traditions, including Buddhism.
The sheer duration of the Tibetan protests set them apart. The government has passed new laws making it illegal to self-immolate, to help anyone else do so, to spread news of a self-immolation, or even to organize prayers for someone who has died. Collective punishments have been imposed on the families, monasteries, nunneries, and sometimes whole villages.
Since , Lhasa has been essentially closed to Tibetans, already a minority in the city, who live elsewhere. American state support for Tibetan nationalists — cut in the early s as part of the Mao-Nixon alliance — has once again started to grow. Strategists, worried about Chinese economic, political, and military competition, support some Tibetan organizations, through the conduit of the National Endowment for Democracy and other vehicles.
One pro-free-market project in Pakistan received more money than all the Tibetan projects combined. And both sums pale in comparison to the hundreds of millions given to Afghan mujahideen groups in the s and s. As two supporters of the neoconservative Project for a New American Century wrote :. Americans need to recognize that, for better or worse, we have no practical alternative to Chinese sovereignty in Tibet.
It would be pointless to make independence a goal when there is no chance that such a goal can be reached. This could change. However, from the standpoint of American capital, there are good economic and political reasons not to ally with Tibetan nationalists. China owns more US government debt than any country except Japan; some of the Fortune companies invest in China; and most companies that produce in China have no realistic alternative that they could move to.
Whether Trump understands any of those factors — or will listen to those who do — is another matter entirely. Regardless, a more aggressive policy toward China will likely keep Tibet on the periphery. All the key fault lines and all the potential allies are located in east and southeast Asia, not the Himalayas.
And while some Tibetan organizations will accept whatever crumbs they are offered, Tibetan nationalism cannot simply be reduced to a tool of American imperialism. It gains support from the harsh realities of Chinese rule and from the refusal of most to accept it. Recognition of that oppression is at the core of why we should support Tibetan self-determination. In , the official news agency Xinhua boasted about how much the Chinese government had invested in Tibet:. In the period from to , the central government provided The majority of Tibetans still live on subsistence agriculture and livestock herding, though the Chinese policy of forced settlement is rapidly restricting this traditional economy.
Something like two million farmers and nomadic herders have been forcibly resettled in newly built villages. In the TAR and Qinghai, the establishment of nature reserves — which ban nomads but allow over-harvesting and industrial development — is driving this resettlement. These reserves now cover one-third of the land area of the TAR, and just over half that in Qinghai. Farmers face dispossession when their land is taken for urban or industrial development.
They are forced into shoddily built housing with no land for agriculture and almost nothing in the way of alternative work. In Taming Tibet , Emily T. Yeh described one such village:. Nearby construction had cut off all sources of irrigation and thus prevented them from working on their remaining farmland, and yet the village committee did not have enough capital from farmland compensation to complete construction.
Villagers were thus left to wait for other work units to come and expropriate their remaining farmland so that the village could finish building their resettlement homes. Ironically, then, villagers waited idly to lose farmland so that they could use the compensation to pay to move into apartments built on their expropriated farmland. As with the forced resettlement of indigenous peoples in the United States, Canada, Australia, and other colonial states, this creates regions — effectively ghettos — that suffer from huge social problems like alcoholism, family breakdown, and the loss of traditional skills.
China, however, has added an extra twist by making those resettled pay the cost of their new housing. It means we have to do whatever the leaders tell us to do. Some Tibetans have prospered from recent economic growth, in particular those employed as lower-level officials. Government and party administration make up over 13 percent of total economic activity. But the vast majority of that money goes toward control and coercion.
All will exclude Tibetans from everything but the lowest-paying jobs, and all will do great ecological harm. Tourism has little ecological impact, as it is concentrated in just a few areas. Although Twitter and Facebook are blocked in mainland China — the government banned them when riots spread across Tibet in — municipal governments have begun to launch Facebook campaigns to draw international tourists , and state-run newspapers maintain robust Twitter feeds.
Free Tibet found that the fake accounts had overlapping qualities. Most of their names were comprised of two western-sounding first names strung together. About 90 of them were also closely intertwined — they followed one another and frequently retweeted each other's posts, often identical statements and links.
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