ONE WORLD, ONE DREAM: FREE TIBET 2008

Friday April 25, 2008, 8:52 pm
One year has passed since I and four Tibet supporters traveled to Mt. Everest Base Camp to protest the Chinese government's plan to take the Olympic torch through Tibet. Now, one year later, China is preparing to carry its tainted torch to the top of Mount Everest in a blatant attempt to proclaim its control over Tibet.

Over the past six weeks, Tibetans have risen up across Tibet and are risking everything for their freedom. Our support for their brave actions is needed now more than ever before. Watch my video message here.

Today marks the 19th birthday of Gedun Choekyi Nyima, the young Panchen Lama who was kidnapped by Chinese authorities when he was only six years old - yet another year has gone by and the Panchen Lama remains a prisoner of the Chinese government.

But, this isn't any other year - this is 2008! We have the opportunity to push for real change for the people of Tibet and change the course of history.

Please Donate Now and help SFT work to end the occupation of Tibet.

Your support makes a difference at this critical time.

Sincerely,

Tendor
Deputy Director

Saturday April 26, 2008, 8:57 am
This just shows how cruel the Chinese are. Imprisoning a six year old and still holding him. Disgusting. I sincerely hope the Tibetan peoples will win their fight against this terror called China. I detest that country and I am boycotting as much as I can but if the rest of the world sits on it's laurels and does nothing than Tibet will never be free and the Chinese will keep doing what unspeakable things they are doing, with impunity. It's a sad world we live in. I am trying not to despair but it's hard in face of the odds.Amida Buddha keeps me strong.

Saturday April 26, 2008, 10:20 am

Boycott China and the Olympics.

Contact companies that support the Olympics or import Chinese good and let them know why they are not getting your money.

Saturday April 26, 2008, 10:40 am
I have always enjoyed watching the Olympics but will not watch one second of them this time around. I do feel bad for the atheletes that have trained very hard for this but I feel even worse for the people of Tibet and the slaves of China.

Saturday April 26, 2008, 1:08 pm
I believe that the creation of a mass movement against the Chinese Olympics would serve towards:
1) Spreading information world wide (at present almost non existent) on the repeated abuse of human rights in China;
2) Fierce criticism of western governments’ actions that influenced the CIO to assign the Olympic Games to China due to particularistic interests;
3) A first connection between the various humanitarian organizations in order to plan practical interventions wherever necessary, stimulating democratic governments to help these organizations.

Saturday April 26, 2008, 1:15 pm
To Bea ....
Visit http://www.unmadeinchina.org
According to me a very interesting site..
Kiss
Paula

Sunday April 27, 2008, 3:22 am
to me it is backed by usa to bring china in the lime light nad deposign it defaming it, although, there are many region which demand seperation from usa control over them, like IRAQ, the world does not look it as should be looked, we human being of modern era are programmed generation believe it or not, usa is leading us towards the armagadan: the end of the world, and this tibet issue is nothing compare to this.

Sunday April 27, 2008, 10:40 am
Right from the start, I thought that China was a very poor choice to host the Olympics... it's a country that does not have a good spirit at all. What on earth was the Olympic Committee thinking??? I, too, will not be watching the Games this time around.

Sunday April 27, 2008, 5:33 pm
Fact 1: The British invaded Tibet in 1903.
Fact2: The British and US have supported the Dalai Lama's movement since being exiled in 1959, in the hope that would be able to regain control of Tibet. Remember India was British too at that time :/
Fact 3: The Russians wanted Tibet too.

Why so much passion for "freedom" in Tibet? "Freedom" from who? Were Tibetans actually "free" during the feudal rule of the Dalai Lama before the communists "liberated" the ordinary working people? Why have the Western media gone to such great lengths to demonize China and drum up public support for a "Free Tibet"? Because Tibetan Buddhism is the best? Because Steven Seagal is officially the reincarnation of a Lama?

Fact 4: Five of Asia's great rivers have their headwaters in Tibet and nearly half the world's population lives downstream.

Think about it.

Sunday April 27, 2008, 5:47 pm
I'm not saying that the Chinese government hasn't done some awful things in the past, and probably still does, but that is not the point: to believe that "Free Tibet" is about freedom of speech, freedom of religion or any freedom at all, is more than naïve.

Iraq was about OIL... Tibet is about WATER. All you "Free Tibet"ers are well intentioned, but are in fact being used to further a long standing political agenda by Britain and the US to control Tibet, it's resources, and above all, the water. Well China won't be having any of it, and I'm not surprised.

Tuesday April 29, 2008, 7:00 pm
Thanks Bea; Disturbing...Visited ALL Sites, Including Vitamin-Site, and Site on Children Imprisoned by Father for years; ALL VERY MUCH hurtful to my heart. Thank-you for DARING to report the TRUTH. Love and Light, Tassa

Tuesday April 29, 2008, 7:03 pm
Oh YES, BOYCOTT the CHINESE PRODUCTS/OLYMPICS; THAT is A MUTE POINT ALREADY for ME. Thanks again. FREE TIBET; They are the Peaceful Protesting Victims of Tyranny, in my Opinion.

Tuesday April 29, 2008, 8:33 pm
China deserves all it is getting! And anybody supporting this cruel regime! And guess what they are supposed to be the new world power. Scary to say the least! But they also deserve all they are hopefully will be getting through, the no buy Chinese pledge, because of all the monstrosities they are dishing out to humans and animals. Think of the worst thing that could possibly be done to an animal and they are doing it in China, as routine. I know that there is a movement from the young Chinese and I wish them all the luck in the world, to change the way China handles its people, neighbors and animals. Change the ways they think of animals!

Education is the key! The olympics is the best platform to oppose China and show them, that the world does not approve and that we can take the glum of their faces, by refusing to buy chinese. Boykott the olympics. Anybody with a heart, has to support this very loudly and if it means to give Coca cola a message, lets not buy it either!

Wednesday April 30, 2008, 10:57 pm
Kaye Z., many of us "Free Tibet'ers" as you call us
feel a compulsion to do SOMETHING, because, in my
opinion, doing nothing while we are aware of the
human rights abuses of the Chinese, makes us complicit
in their crimes by our silence. If I do nothing in the
face of such evil, I could not look myself in the mirror.
I do not doubt you, that the issue is water, but some of
us feel an irresistable need to stand up on the side of
the Tibetan people, just on general priciples alone.
Thank you, Bea.
noted.

Wednesday April 30, 2008, 10:59 pm
Clicking on Kaye Z's non-avatar produced this:

The profile you are looking for could not be found.

Who are you?
Art thou a troll?!

Friday May 2, 2008, 3:21 am
Not a Troll, I'm just well aware that speaking out in defence of China is politically incorrect these days, so good is the brainwashing job of BBC, CNN and Fox. After seeing images of the "Free Tibet" movement attacking an innocent handicapped Chinese athlete, I'd rather remain part of my favourite online group: anonymous.

China is of course guilty of human rights violations, but no more so than the Brits and the US relative to the size of the country. You just hear more about it when China does anything wrong. When an innocent is shot to death by UK police on the underground, or tortured in Pakistan, or thousands of civilians are killed in Iraq, we have been conditioned to accept that as "acceptable collateral damage" instead of protesting loudly. In fact, the UK resembles a police state far more than China - you'd have to go there to know that though.

I'm all in favour of standing up and shouting out for human rights - the problem is that the old Tibet before the communists arrived was in fact a slave society with no human rights at all. You really should watch the National Geographic documentary of the Tibetan rulers of that time receiving the Nazi's; just search on YouTube. There is human rights abuse going on by our own countries all over the world... but the authorities have distracted us all from the important human rights abuse going on today, which is not by the Chinese government, but largely by our own.

By all means "do something" - just make sure that you are well informed before pointing fingers and jumping on bandwagons... remember one thing: you may have been duped as to the bandwagons ultimate destination.

Friday May 2, 2008, 10:02 am
Kaye, please do forgive me, for being so rude
and making assumptions. I rushed to a judgement
without knowing the facts behind the story. It
was never my intention to insult you or to hurt
your feelings, and I do apologize.

Friday May 2, 2008, 11:21 am
always happy to discuss this, and other such important issues, with anyone, whatever their take on the situation - no hurt or insult taken.