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Headlines : Human RightsChina frees 3 Canadian activists after Tibet protest
Lhadon Tethong, the executive director of Students for a Free Tibet, recently got a visa to travel to China. For the last week has been writing a blog and posting video diaries on a site called http://www.beijingwideopen.org/. Tethong and her colleagues are protesting the 2008 Summer Olympics in China. After being tailed by Chinese authorities she was arrested last night. Earlier today it was learned she had been released. Follow all the latest developments on my blog here. She can also be seen in GNN’s video “Faith in Exile,” linked below.
[Posted By anthony]Republished from CBC
Three Canadians arrested by Chinese authorities following a protest at the Great Wall against the Chinese presence in Tibet have been released.
The New York-based Students for a Free Tibet said at about 12 p.m. ET Wednesday that it received a call from witnesses who said the activists — Lhadon Tethong, Sam Price and Melanie Raoul — had been released in Beijing and deported. But it was unclear where they were deported to.
A spokesperson at the Chinese embassy in Ottawa confirmed to CBC News that the three Canadian protesters were “dealt with according to Chinese regulations and have been expelled from China….
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Why don’t we righteous Americans/Canadians set a good example for the Chinese by reliniquishing our established statehood towards Native American Independence? First Nation Independence?
Of cours not, we are hypocrits. We want to keep our stolen land and demand Tibet Independence.
Proverb goes “people living in glass house should not throw stones.”
Not sure if esteemed GNN is aware of the fact Students for a free Tibet is conntected with the Canadian government thru PM Harper’s advisor Tenzin Khangsar:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Tenzin+Khangsar+Students+For+Free+Tibet
I’m not sure it matters to me.
Don’t be silly.
In any case, in the US, the First Nations are sovereignties and at least in theory have criminal and cultural jurisdiction in their own territory. They are accorded cultural freedom, are not the subjects of a concerted plan for demographic displacement, they are permitted to freely practice their traditions and religion, they are not imprisoned for criticizing the government, and the US government has actually made the effort to apologize for its past actions and honor its treaty obligations. I’m not going to argue that the US has done or is doing all it could to treat native americans properly, but we’re doing a goddamn sight better than the Chinese government ...who do all of the things I just listed above.
I lived in Dharamsala, India, for a while in ’02. I taught English to a pair of young Tibetans who’d been raped ( both the guy and the girl) with cattle prods, tortured, and horribly mistreated while in prison for the crime of putting up posters. I heard stories and read reports that left me literally weeping. To compare the current situation of First Nations in the US and Canada (admittedly and emphatically poor though it is) to the treatment of Tibetans by China is almost ludicrous.
Very, very few are demanding Tibetan independence. Most are demanding Tibetan cultural freedom, human rights, and political autonomy. Honestly, if the Tibetans were treated as well as native Americans, I’d call it an improvement and celebrate it.
You might want to add “government” after “Chinese” so as to not sound like a racist.
Ok, I changed it. Also note that I’m talking about current, not historical, US-Native American relations.
Hey Bobby Fletcher (or “Charles Liu”):
“Not sure if esteemed GNN is aware of the fact Students for a free Tibet is conntected with the Canadian government thru PM Harper’s advisor Tenzin Khangsar”
Actually, you have the wrong Tenzin Khangsar. The one you speak of is in his mid-thirties, a long-time businessman and politico in Canada, and a former member of the Canada Tibet Committee.
The one involved with Students for a Free Tibet is a young guy just out of college who is also involved with Tibetan Youth Congress. As I hope you’re aware, Tenzin is an incredibly popular name for Tibetan males as well as females. And Khangsar isn’t rare either.
You get an A+ for rumor-mongering though. I’ve seen your damn comment to this effect in about a dozen places. I hope you’re getting paid by the CCP. Otherwise, you’re working too hard man!
Heh, nice.
Nice try Han Shan. I deny your accusation of being paid. If you have proof let’s see it, I sure can use the money – unlike y’all have the resouce to book all they way to China.
And you don’t think you’d get called on this? Who are you trying to kid? Tenzin Khangsar has been part of SFT and Tibet Independence long before he hooked up with Harper:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/elections/fed2005/candidates/generated/24011_CON.html
[And Snark, TSF are demanding Tibetan independence, read their giant flag carefully. If we don’t have the balls to demand “independence” for our own “Tibet”, what right do we have to demand the Chinese?]