Tibet: True or false?
Mila and Marcos Michel Collon
www.resistenze.org on the 23/03/2009
Without any question, to understand what you are familiar with the issue of Tibet
This media-test "does not want to offend. All positions are respectable. Our goal is that each one may ask, by itself, a fundamental question:
"My beliefs are based on reliable information or it was the manipulation of public opinion on some critical issues? "
How to be a good judge? You must listen carefully to the various positions, leave prejudices aside and check the reliability of each test, document or witness. We should not be all, readers or viewers of the media, interested to apply this method?
1. "Before the Chinese invasion, the Tibetan people lived in harmony with the monks and the feudal lords in a social order inspired by religious teachings."
FALSE.
The doctrine required the superiority of the rich man and the inferiority of the rural poor, the lower Monaco, and slave women. We had this order as the result of inevitable karmic succession, produced the virtue of the rich and their past lives.
In fact, this ideology justified a feudal social order of class: the servants had to work the lands of the lord or the monastery, and free for life. Whatever action was a pretext to impose high taxes, wedding, funeral, birth, religious festivals, possession of an animal, plant a tree, dancing, and even get in or out of prison.
These debts could be passed from father to son and continue in subsequent generations, and if the debts were not paid, the debtors were enslaved.
The escapees and thieves were pursued by a small professional army. The punishments were the preferred tongue cut or a blind eye, cutting the hamstring, etc.. All of these have been banned torture in 1951 through the implementation of the reforms brought by Beijing.
2. "In 1951 China invaded Tibet"
FALSE.
The term "invasion" implies the idea of \u200b\u200bthe existence of two different countries. In fact, from the twelfth century, the Mongol empire, Tibet was annexed by China. Since the seventeenth century, Tibet has become one of the eighteen provinces of China and the Dalai Lama received any guarantee of its legitimacy from the emperor of China.
At the end of the nineteenth century the British Empire invaded Tibet. The Dalai Lama took the opportunity to claim independence of Tibet. This demand, however, was not taken into account by any Chinese party or from any country in the world. In 1949, the U.S. State Department considered the Tibet (and Taiwan) as part of China, but everything changes when China becomes a socialist country with Mao Zedong.
was the same State Department, then, who wrote:
"Tibet becomes a zone strategic ideologically important. The independence of Tibet could serve as a struggle against communism, our interest is to recognize it as an independent country rather than as an integral part of China. " But he adds: "The situation changes if you create a government in exile. In this case, our interest will be to support Tibetan independence without recognizing it. The recognition of the independence of Tibet is not the question really important. This is our strategy against China. "
3. "From the moment when the Chinese Communists took power in 1951, the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan lords have lost their political power in Tibet"
FALSE.
In 1951, signed the Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet between Beijing and the Tibetan local government. The Dalai Lama accepted the proposal of Mao Zedong and sent a telegraphic message: "The local government, the lamas and secular people unanimously support the Tibetan Agreement of 17 articles."
This was the context in which the People's Liberation Army entered Tibet. The agreement provided for the continuation of serfdom in Tibet under the authority of the Dalai Lama.
The monasteries, the Dalai Lama and the officers kept their possessions (70% of the land). Beijing managed only to military matters and reports international. The Tibetan local government, composed of lamas and the feudal lords, negotiated and accepted the agreement. In return, the Dalai Lama received the post of Vice-President of the Chinese parliament, which took place without the slightest hesitation.
4. "The Battle of Lhasa ended with the death of 83,000 Tibetans!"
FALSE.
To better understand the evolution of the conflict: while the feudal serfdom in Tibet had been maintained, the fifties the land reform was implemented in neighboring provinces (Tibetan inhabited by minorities, which coexisted with the Han, Hui, Yi, Naxi, Qiang , Mongols, etc.)..
It confiscated the lands of landlords redistribute it to poor peasants. This process was developed without too much friction, given that the Chinese government was paying a pension to its former owners. There are lamas and Tibetan overlords of the regions bordering on it, for fear of losing their privileges, they began to organize resistance.
an armed revolt broke out in 1956, started from the monastery in Litang in Sichuan province. After a few skirmishes with the Red Army, one of the elite of Tibetan Sichuan has taken refuge in Tibet spreading rumors of the "red terror".
The CIA financed and supported the rebellion from the beginning. They had trained militias in Colorado, the were then run in Tibet and were supplied by air. The bloody events of this period were in fact a struggle for the suppression of the privileged classes organized by the CIA. In 1959, the rumors that "The Chinese wanted to kidnap the Dalai Lama" caused a large demonstration in Lhasa (although the CIA, in fact, had already organized the escape of the Dalai Lama in India). The protesters lynched some Tibetan officials red army crushed the rebellion.
How many deaths there were in Lhasa? According to testimonies collected by the pro-independence political scientist Henry Bradsher, 3000. In 1959 the Dalai Lama claimed that they were 65,000, and increased the number until you get to 87,000. The problem is that back then, Lhasa had a maximum population of 40,000.
Certainly after the rebellion 10,000 Tibetans were sentenced to hard labor for eight months, and used in the construction of the first power plant Ngchen. The figures fantasies about the "genocide" have continued to circulate. In 1984 the Tibetan government, said: "Between 1949 and 1979 are 432,000 Tibetans were murdered by the Red Army!"
5. At first, India denied political asylum to the Dalai Lama
TRUE.
Since 1949 the U.S. has tried to persuade the Dalai Lama into exile. To do this, have the support of his two brothers (contacted by the CIA since 1951) and the German Councillor Heinrich Harrer (ex SS).
The then Indian leader, Nehru, had no intention of giving him political asylum. Therefore, President Eisenhower proposed a treaty, if India had given asylum to the Dalai Lama, the U.S. would form 400 Indian engineers in the field of nuclear technology.
The treaty was accepted. In 1974 the first atomic bomb India veins cynically called "the Smiling Buddha."
6. The Chinese occupation has caused the violent death of 1.2 million Tibetans
FALSE.
Two data contradict this figure, accepted without proof more than 30 years by all the Western countries.
1 - The age structure of the Tibetan population. It is estimated that in 1953 the Tibetan population (both in Tibet and in neighboring provinces) reached a maximum 2.5 million inhabitants. If they had killed 1.2 million Tibetans between 1951 and the early 70 ', a large part of Tibet would have been depopulated. In addition, there would be a great imbalance between men and women. Demographers, however, do not detect any abnormality in the Tibetan population, which has never stopped growing. Currently in China there are nearly 6 million Tibetans.
2 - The only person who had access to the archives of the Tibetan government in exile Patrick is French, when he directed the campaign "Free Tibet" in London. With documents in hand, French came to closing that the evidence of the "Tibetan genocide" had been falsified. The battles of 1959 had been recorded several times and the figures of the dead had been added on the sidelines, as a result. French denounced this forgery, but the figure of 1.2 million deaths continued to go around the world.
7. "During the Cultural Revolution was banned all religious practice"
TRUE.
Between 1966 and 1976, all religious practices were forbidden, not only in Tibet but throughout China. Closed the monasteries and the monks were forced to live with their families of origin, devoted to productive work, mostly agricultural. Not all the monasteries of worship destroyed, but many objects of worship were swept away by Red Guards (young Tibetan intellectuals belonging to the Chinese revolutionary movement).
When the situation degenerated badly (excesses, arbitrary punishments), the Red Army intervened and restored the social and economic order. The Chinese government admitted the mistakes he had committed in this period and began to finance the restoration of all the religious heritage of Tibet.
The monasteries of monks returned to fill. Currently, in China there are more than 2,000 Tibetan monasteries and restored function.
8. "The Dalai Lama is a sort of Pope of Buddhism worldwide"
FALSE.
The Dalai Lama is not the Zen Buddhism (Japan), or Buddhism in Southeast Asia, or China's. Tibetan Buddhism represents less than 2% of the Buddhists of the world. In Tibet, also, there are four separate schools of Buddhism. The Dalai Lama belongs to one of those, the geluppa (the "virtuous" yellow hair),
During the visit of the Dalai Lama said in London in 1992, was charged by most British Buddhist organization of being a "ruthless dictator "and an" oppressor of freedom religious. " This is a "Papa" with a few religious disciples, but many political followers.
9. The Dalai Lama claims a territory equivalent to the fourth part of China
TRUE.
Although in his later statements claimed to be satisfied with autonomy, in his book claims the "Greater Tibet", a territory twice as large as that on which the Dalai Lama exercising their political power in the past! This area includes the entire province of Qinghai and parts of the provinces of Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan, inhabited by many minorities, and Tibetan.
What would they do? Drive out non-Tibetans? They would do the ethnic cleansing? Sure! In 1987 the Dalai Lama said quote: "They will have 7.5 million from the settlers." These are not colonists, however, since the population of these regions is mixed for several centuries. In any case, this expansionist project would result in what all great powers have wanted for more than 150 years: dismember China.
10. "The funding comes from donations of the Tibetan movement of humanitarian NGOs or charitable"
FALSE.
The Tibetan movement actually receive such donations, but its main source of financing is the U.S. government. Between 1959 and 1972, the CIA gave $ 1.7 million to the "Tibetan Government in exile and 180,000 dollars a year directly to the Dalai Lama. For a long time, he denied it, but finally in the eighties, has ended with public recognition. Since then, funding has been more discreet, through front organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the Tibet Fund, the State Department's Bureau of Democracy ... Another of his major sponsors, is George Soros, through the Albert Einstein Institution, which continues to be directed by former colonel Robert Helvey of U.S. intelligence.
11. "The U.S. support for the Dalai Lama is motivated by strategic objectives"
TRUE.
Elite director of the U.S. sees China as its main enemy. Although it is an indispensable economic partner in the long term, China is considered as the main factor of resistance to U.S. world domination. The United States predict that China will surpass the U.S. economy in 2030. Consequently, it is crucial for the U.S. to prevent the rest of the Asian countries are able to create a common market linked to China that might escape their control. So, they dream of splitting China as they did with the USSR.
Their goal is to control the economic wealth, the labor market and the largest in the world. China to weaken the U.S. has a dual strategy. On the one hand surround it with military bases, on the other, support separatism and every kind of opposition, starting with mass media campaigns to weaken. This is why they invest large sums of money into the issue of Tibet.
12. "The Dalai Lama has publicly defended the fascist dictator of Chile, Augusto Pinochet"
TRUE.
Pinochet was arrested by British police in England, based on an international arrest warrant issued by English Judge Baltasar Garzon. At that meeting the Dalai Lama strongly urged the British government for the release of Pinochet, so that was tried in Spain for crimes against humanity.
Pinochet was also a former CIA employee. The Dalai Lama, in fact, is a pawn of the United States. In 2007, George Bush awarded him the most decorated U.S., the Congressional Gold Medal. His Holiness then incensed the Bush administration for its efforts to promote democracy, freedom and human rights around the world.
He even called the U.S. "champions of democracy and freedom!"
13. "Reporter since Frontieres (RSF) support the Dalai Lama in a disinterested manner"
FALSE.
RSF presents itself as an organization that fights for freedom of journalists, and a large number donors believe that they support an independent and objective. But the funding to assist journalists oppressed occupies only 7% of overall funding. The rest is intended to finance political campaigns, where is the money laundering.
The owner of RSF, Robert Menard, is a defender of human rights variable geometry. He criticizes Venezuela and Cuba by distorting the facts? It has been funded by the Cuban mafia in Miami. He criticizes China for its policy in Tibet? He received $ 100,000 from the anti-Taiwan. Menard is certainly much more so when it comes to criticizing the U.S., the country that killed more journalists in recent years (Especially in Iraq). E 'funded by the CIA through the NED, cited above. Why
Ménard has left that RSF would stop criticizing the French media? Because it is financially tied to the great French media and some large corporations. Distributors print (partial ownership of Lagardère) distribute free of his photo albums. "You do not spit into the pot where you eat!" He recognized the same Menard in 2001. How, for example, to organize a discussion on the concentration of print and then ask Hanvas Hachette or to finance the event?
Despite all these suspicious backgrounds, the majority of mainstream media continue to defend the arguments of Menard. But UNESCO has stopped financing it with this explanation: "On several occasions, RSF had demonstrated lack of ethics in dealing with some countries very little objective."
14. "China is doing a cultural genocide in Tibet"
FALSE.
Tibet has long been an autonomous region. Since the 80 ', the Tibetan culture and religion is practiced freely, children are bilingual and Tibetology institutes have been opened. The monasteries were filled with llamas, including children. The Tibetan language is spoken and written by many more people than before the revolution. In Tibet there is a hundred literary magazines. The magazine Foreign Office, near the U.S. State Department, acknowledged that the practice of bilingualism was used by 60/70% of ethnic Tibetan officials.
Furthermore, Tibetan culture has had a new perspective on the development in the rest of China, especially in language, literature, studies of traditional life and architecture. In China have been published important collections of books, newspapers and magazines in Tibetan language. There are many publications dedicated to the promotion of Tibetan language, not only in Tibet but also in Beijing. Evidence shows that the idea of \u200b\u200b"cultural genocide" is nothing but a myth of political campaigning.
15. "The violence that took place in Lhasa on 14 March 2008, are the consequence of the harshness with which the Chinese police and army have suppressed a peaceful demonstration."
FALSE.
All the witnesses present at that time Western, including the journalist James Miles (The Economist), confirm the same version: the violence was triggered by young Tibetans who had been directed by some lamas to commit acts of vandalism.
These actions were planned to racist crime. Several groups, all armed in the same way (Molotov cocktails, stones, iron bars and butcher knives), acting the same way, they spread Lhasa, spreading panic and attacking the Han (Chinese) and Hui (Muslim). They have attacked schools, hospitals, hotels. They burned alive and stoned several civilians. Were counted 19 dead and over 300 wounded. Some older Tibetans rescue some victims have saved their lives.
When there were these racist violence, supporters of the Dalai Lama has claimed that it was a stunt performed by Chinese soldiers dressed as monks, by circulating the photo, a so-called "photo-satellite", which purported to prove the facts. We have shown that the photo was a huge farce.
Initially, the Chinese police and army were passive, and then intervene and stem the tide of violence. How many victims were there? The Western media spread a figure that reaches "hundreds," but again, this figure comes entourage of the Dalai Lama. Some of the "dead counted by the Tibetan government in exile now living in Tibet. Others are called "Dupont, Charleroi," without further precision.
The controversy is not over.
for info and contacts: mila.marcos.investigaction @ gmail.com
Reprints general de Elisabeth Martens
book "History of the Tibetan Buddsmo, the Compassion of the Mighty"
Edition L'Harmattan, collection "Asiatic Researches," 2007.
ISBN: 978-2-296-04033-5, Prezzo: 25.50 €
- Libro Elisabeth Martens - Interview-presentation: http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2007-11 -23% 2009:44:24 & log = lautrehistoire
- Elisabeth Martens - Bio connected, BT-light or dalaïstes convinced: what is it left? "(A portion of his book)
http: / / www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2008-04-28% 2015:24:38 & log = prompts
- Elisabeth Martens - "What the Dalai Lama does not say about Tibet and its doctrine "
http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2007-11-23% 2009:44:24 & log = lautrehistoire
-" Tibet: Réponses sur l'Histoire, la religion, class des moines, les problèmes sociaux, repression, the rôle des USA ... "- http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2008-03-28% 2006:21:41 & log = Specific invites REFERENCES 1. "Before the Chinese invasion of the Tibetan people lived in harmony with the monks and the feudal lords in a social order inspired by religious teachings"
- Michael Parenti - "Le Mythe du Tibet."
http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2005-08-24% 2011:39:05 & log = invites
- Zang Yanping - "When the Dalai Lama was in power, 95% of Tibetans could be sold as commodities"
http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2008-03-20% 2005:43:04 & log = lautrehistoire
2. "In 1951, the invasion there Cina Tibet."
- Elisabeth Martens - "Tibet: Answers on history, religion, class of monks, social problems, law enforcement, the U.S. role ..."
http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2008-03-28% 2006:21:41 & log = prompts
3. "Da quando i Comunisti China took power in 1951, the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan lords have lost all their political power "
4. "The battle is 83,000 dead in Lhasa Tibetan."
- Jean-Paul Desimpelaere - 'Les Chinois ont-ils les Tibétains liquid? "
http://www.mondialisation.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7771
5. "At the india denied political asylum to the Dalai Lama."
- Comaguer-"Les USA, Chine et Linde: aperçu sur la géopolitique de l'Himalaya"
http://www.michelcollon .info / articles.php? dateaccess = 04/04/2008% 2005:54:19 & log = invites
6. "The Chinese occupation causes the violent death of 1.2 million Tibetans."
- Jean-Paul Desimelaere - "The CIA sponsors of the Dalai Lama"
http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php? dateaccess = 01/02/2008% 2018:31:49 & log = lautrehistoire
7. "During the Cultural Revolution was banned all religious practice."
8. "The Dalai Lama is a sort of Pope of Buddhism worldwide."
- Peter Franssen - 'The Dalai Lama: "Les Etats-Unis sont les champions de la démocratie et de la liberté"
http://www. michelcollon.info / articles.php? dateaccess = 3/20/2008% 2006:42:36 & log = invites
- Nico Hirtt - 'A propos de la tours du "chef spirituel tibétain' en Belgique"
http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2008-04-28 2014:33% : 18 & log = invites
9. "The Dalai Lama claims a territory equivalent to the fourth part of China."
- Domenico Losurdo "The Dali Lama is a moderate?"
http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2008 -05-27% 2000:11:17 & log = invites
- Michael Parenti - Le Mythe du Tibet
http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2005-08-24% 2011: 39:05 & log = invites
10. "It comes Finanziamento del movimento da tibetano donazioni umanitarie o di NGO caritatevoli."
- Infortibet - The CIA: "It is we who have prepared the uprising in Tibet"
http://www.michelcollon.info/ articles.php? dateaccess = 2008-03-20% 2006:37:04 & log = lautrehistoire
- Jean-Paul Desimelaere - The CIA sponsor of the Dalai Lama
http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php ? dateaccess = 2008-01-02% 2018:31:49 & log = lautrehistoire
- Jean Paul Desimpelaere - "China is forcing nomadic Tibetans to live in town": info ou intox?
http://www. michelcollon.info / articles.php? dateaccess = 2008-01-14% 2010:20:14 & log = attentionm
11. "The U.S. support for the Dalai Lama is motivated by strategic reasons"
- Elisabeth Martens - "Quelles issues crise pour la Chine-Tibet? "Http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2008-04-28% 2014:52:36 & log = invites
- Domenico Losurdo -" When is because the U.S. has changed its position on Tibet '
http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2008-04-02% 2023:07:29 & log = lautrehistoire
12. "El Dalai Lama to publicly Defend el antiguo dictador fascist Augusto Pinochet of Chile."
- F. William Engdhal - "Jeux Geopolitical risk: Washington jue Tibet Roulette with China
http://www.alterinfo.net/Jeu-geopolitique-risque-Washington-joue-le-Tibet-a-la-roulette-avec-la- Chine_a18783.html
13. "Sin Fronteras Reporteros Apoya al Dalai Lama desinteresada training." - Pagina oficial de Sin Fronteras Reporteros.
http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=21
- Jean-Guy Allard - "Robert Menard received $ 100 000 of Taiwan"
http://www.michelcollon.info/ articles.php? dateaccess = 2008-05-02% 2016:47:41 & log = prompts
- Thierry Meyssan - "Reporters Without Borders covers CIA "
http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2005-12-07% 2019:30:56 & log = prompts
- Jean-Guy Allard -" RSF receives its funding from Taipei "
http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2008-04-10% 2013:55:15 & log = prompts
- Jean-Luc Melenchon -" I'm no agreement with the Olympic boycott and the anti-Chinese "
http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2008-04-30% 2014:42:44 & log = prompts
- Salim Lamrani - Cuba, the Internet and Reporters Without Borders
http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2007-03-09% 2005:51:18 & log = prompts
- Maxime Vivas - The hidden face of Reporters Without Borders
http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2007-11-19% 2009:01:32 & log = attentionm
14. "China está a cometiendo genocidio cultural en el Tibet."
- Ingo Nentwing - "cultural genocide" in Tibet "
http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2008-05-02% 2017 : 19:23 & log = prompts
- AlterInfo - "A German sinologist refutes claims of cultural genocide 'in Tibet"
http://www.alterinfo.net/Un-sinologue-allemand-refute-les-allegations de-cultural genocide au Tibet_a19137.html
16. "The violence that took place in Lhasa on 14 March 2008, are the consequence of the harshness with which the Chinese police and army have suppressed a peaceful demonstration."
- Michel Collon - "Tibet: Investigation on a photo manipulated" http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2008-04-03% 2007:17:28 & log =
articles - Peter Fransen - "What really happened in Lhasa? Journalists and tourists say something else "
http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2008-03-20% 2006:18:02 & log = attentionm
- Peter Franssen -" 5 questions à propos soulèvement du au Tibet "http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2008-03-28% 2014:10:11 & log = invites
- Elisabeth Martens -" Tibet: A appel à de Bouddha 'esprit critique "- http://www.michelcollon.info/articles.php?dateaccess=2008-04-10% 2013:44:48 & log = invites
Other references. If you want to see the version of the supporters of the Dalai Lama and separatism:
- http://bouddhisme.info/
- http://images.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/EFacs/: Archivos de la " Foreign Relations of the United States '
- www.iiss.org / about-us: Map' U.S. troop deployment "en el portal of the "International Institute for Strategic Studies"
- www.berzinarchives.com
- www.buddhaline.net Address of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the European Parliament (01/11/2001)
- www.cerbi.com
- www.clio.fr / chronologie_tibet_durepli_a_l_ouverture_force
- www.dalailama.com: Official website of the Dalai Lama
- www.darshan.fr.eu.org
- www.karmapa-europe.net
- www.maisondeshimalayas.org
- www . mindandlife.org: Portal of the Institute "Mind and Life"
- www.progressive.org
- www.solhimal.free.fr
- www.theepochtimes.com: Home of "The Epoch Times, Falun Gong newspaper
- www.tibet.fr / site / gouvernement.php: Government Portal Tibetan exile y en el de la Campaña "Free Tibet".
- www.tibet-info.net
- www.tibet-info.org/amisdutibet/: Portal de Los Amigos del Tibet. "
- www.trimondi.de / Kalachakra / literatur.ka.htm
- www.trimondi.de: Foro sobre la crítica
Kalachakra - www.wikipedia.org / wiki / livre_des_morts_tibétains
by Rebelion - www.rebelion.org/ noticia.php? id = 69452
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