This was circulated by a Tibetan I met in Dharamsala. There is most likely some exaggeration in this, but it tells a very different story from the media.
"I have just met a Tibetan guy who could make it here Kathmandu from Lhasa yesterday. He was in Lhasa from 8th to 19 of March, so he witnessed the Chinese brutality in Lhasa. All the Tibetans who dare going out are caught by the Chinese police. Now all the prisons in Tibet are full and they are transporting many Tibetans to China. Dead bodies are piled in prison cells with people who are still alive. Many of them are heavily wounded but none of them is getting any medical treatment. Many people are dying miserably slow death in prison cells. Some people committed suicide knowing that they would be killed inhumanly by the Chinese. Tibetans are tied up in lines at police stations in Lhasa and the police are doing all kinds of inhuman things on them. Human blood is flowing at all the police stations like slaughter houses. Even more horrible thing is that all the limbs of all the Tibetans who are caught by the Chinese are broken. Some Tibetans with all of their limbs broken were dropped at the door steps of their families. Many Tibetans think it's better to be dead than alive with all limbs broken. Now Tibetans live in walls and constant fear. Police are searching protesters door by door everyday. Some of them even can't get inside as they don't have proper papers. Every street and door are guarded by the police. All the monasteries around Lhasa are sealed and nobody is allowed to go in and out so people are running out of food supplies and starving but the Chinese only care about their so called stability and harmony. Yesterday they invited some Chinese brainwashed media persons in Lhasa to show how harmonious they are and how calm Lhasa city has become with all the Tibetans sealed inside walls. Many Tibetans suspect that the Chinese killed lots of people one night in front of Jokhang temple as there was constant gunfire whole night long and tanks were running all around. So do you think the Chinese are harmonious enough to deserve an international game for peace? Don't you think you have moral responsibilities for your fellow humans who are dying for simply expressing their views? Don't you think you are silently supporting the brutality of China by just sitting there without saying anything at this moment?"
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Yeah, they're brutal, and they don't like people bucking their system, whether it's Chinese farmer peasants wanting to keep their land or Tibetans who want autonomy. The success of the Chinese ruling party to manipulate nationalist sentiment is a little scary.
Yea, there's little hope of changing the Chinese government's stance of any these issues. There's a BBC program call HardTalk, that interviewed the finance minister of china this week. You may be interested in it. He tries to defend the inflationary policy that exaggerates the disparities between the rich and the poor.
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