In Tibet Chinese officials gouge out a man’s eyes and then throw him from the roof of Tibet’s holiest shrine. Meanwhile elsewhere in the town a father and daughter are forced to have sex while members of the Chinese army watch and cheer on (Chang, 30). China has violated treaties they have signed with Tibet and horrific international crimes are being committed on a daily basis. Countries will publicly condemn and take covert actions against China. But they fear if they take a more active stance against China they could lose trade relations with China.
For almost two thousand years Tibet has existed as an autonomous nation. Only twice in the country’s history have they been subjected to rule by outsiders (Chang, 31). On October 7th, 1950 eighty thousand troops of the People’s Liberation Army of China invaded Tibet in an attempt to integrate Tibet with China. The Tibetan army was outnumbered as well as overpowered and twelve days later Ngabo Ngawang Jigme, Tibetan Provincial Governor, surrendered to the Chinese government (Cavendish). The agreement the two leaders signed stated, “the Tibetan government could keep their functions and rights, including an army” (“Dalai Lama Says”). Chairman Mao ev
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The limiting of the population is done through “crucification, dismemberment, vivisection, beheading, burying, burning, and scalding alive, dragging the victim to death behind galloping horses, Children are forced to shoot their parents, disciples their religious teachers. While Tibetan policies and life remained the same, the only real change was that soldiers exchanged their uniforms for plain clothes (Chang, 31). World Bank officials ardently rationalize their position on the project, claiming that it will reduce poverty for the people being moved (Clark, 6). Countries use international organizations to voice their disapproval of China’s actions in Tibet without being penalized by China and damaging trade relations. However, “Human rights advocates argue that the Bank’s involvement in this project makes the institution complicit in the destruction of Tibetan culture” (Clark, 6). China’s actions in Tibet cause them to be hurt in the international community. “These acts of interference with the births of Tibetans are acts of Genocide” (Dhir, 73). One monk, who attempted to stand up to the monstrosities being committed by the Chinese, by begging them not to use the Buddhist Scriptures as toilet paper. The United Nations, on whose security council China sits, passed a resolution in 1965 expressing grave concern over conditions in Tibet (Chang, 31). China limits the individual freedom of thought and forces imperial China’s views upon Tibetans.
Internationally these human right violations have been acknowledged and condemned by various institutions as well as countries. The Dalai Lama was forced into exile in 1959, and by 1979 sixty percent of Tibet’s libraries had been burned. The United States has supported the Tibetan initiative since the initial occupation of Tibet (Pye, 184).
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