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The Riots in Lhasa
by Eirik Granqvist, a foreign expert in Shanghai who visited Tibet in 2006
"The western medias announced that China had cut all information andthat articles about the riots could not be sent out! I got mad aboutall the apparently incorrect information and wrote this article and twoother similar ones although I am not a journalist but just because Icould not stand all the bad things about China that was told. I sentthem by e-mail without problems and they arrived well but twonewspapers did neither respond neither publish what I had written. Thethird answered and wanted a shorter version that was published manydays later as a normal 'readers voice'. What Dalai Lama had said waslargely published every day together with a real anti-China propaganda.What I had written was apparently too China friendly for the 'freepress'."
I was very shocked by what I had seen in thetelevision and been reading in China daily about the riots in Lhasa.The most that shocked me was anyhow may be not the cruel events bythemselves but how the medias in my country of origin, Finland,reported the events. A friend has scanned and sent me articles and Ihave checked also myself what can be found at Internet.
Veryfew Finnish people have ever visited Tibet, but I was there togetherwith my wife in 2006. This was private persons and not as a part of agroup-travel. I have seen Lhasa with my own eyes. I have been talkingand chatting with people there. This was without any restrictions.Okay, we had a lovely and very competent guide that helped us much andtook us where we wanted to go in the mornings but in the afternoons wewere alone. Therefore I think that I have something to tell.
I am also interested in history and know more than people in general.When writing this, I do not have any reference books so I write out ofmy memory. If I do a small mistake somewhere, I beg your pardon.Anyhow, I think that this gives my writing an objectivity. I am wellaware of that I will be accused for this and that for writing what Ithink is the truth. I will be accused by those who think that they knowbut do not know and by those that haven't seen by their own eyes.
Tibet was for centuries an autonomous concordat between Nepal andChina. Sometimes China ruled Nepal as well. The king of Tibet usedtherefore to have one Chinese wife and one Nepalese and then a numberof Tibetan ones.
With the fifth Dalai Lama, the religiousand the political power were unified under the rule of one person, TheDalai Lama. Tibet became a theocratic dictatorship and closed itselffor the rest of the world. No foreigners were anymore allowed in.
At the end of the nineteenth century, the famous Swedish travellerSven Hedin made an attempt to reach Lhasa but was sent politely back,out of Tibet by Dalai Lama.
A French woman, AlexandraDavid-Néel was more successful. She visited Lhasa dressed as a Tibetanpilgrim and she was fluent in the Tibetan language. She told how shewas afraid many times that she should be discovered and then she knewthat she like other suspects or opponents should "happen to fall down"from the walls of the Potala palace.
Tibet was not a paradise. Tibet was an inhuman dictatorship!
The weakened Chinese Qing Dynasty had more and more lost its influencein Tibet. Tibet became more and more interesting for the Russian empirein the north and the British in the south.
In 1903 a Britisharmy expedition directed by the colonel Younghusband reached Lhasa. TheBritish lost 4 soldiers but slaughtered more the 700 Tibetans thattryed to stop them, mainly by magic. The British installed "acommercial representation" in Lhasa. The Chinese evacuated Dalai Lamato the Qinghai plateau where he hade limited rights of move, probablyfor preventing him from having contacts with the British occupants.
The Finnish national hero, Marshal Mannerheim, visited him there in1907 during his famous horseback trip through central Asia. He was thena colonel in the Tsar Russian army and his trip was in reality a spytrip. Therefore the 13th Dalai Lama was interesting.
Thepower of Dalai Lama was weakened. In 1950 the PLA marched in to Tibetwithout war. The 14th Dalai Lama seems at the beginning to haveaccepted this just as a security for his power as the theocraticdictator he was. He enlarged and restructured the Norbulingka SummerPalace in a luxury way in 1954.
The Chinese decided anyhowto finish with the cruel theocratic dictatorship under which theopponents fell down from Potala. The borders where during thisdictatorship closed for all foreigners and the only schools where thereligious ones. It is well known that it is easier to rule a populationwith a low education and is ignoring the outside world. In Tibet, about5% of the population owned everything and the rest literally nothing.About 40% of the Tibetans were monks and nuns living as parasites onthe rest of the population that had to feed them. Tibet was not aparadise! |
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