Tibetan blogger Woeser, New Statesman, July 31:
Then there are the thousands of Tibetans in Beijing. Tibetan college students have been told to go home this summer, while students at Tibetan schools are not allowed to leave the school premises. The Tibetan Studies Centre has given its staff a rare long holiday: even those we call “Tibetans hired by the imperial court”, meaning those on the government payroll, are not trusted. A Tibetan tour guide who I know was detained for a month, with no explanation whatsoever from the police.
A Tibetan artist friend was interrogated for a day because Buddhist scripture in Tibetan was found in his painting. My good friend Dechen Pemba, an ethnic Tibetan who was born in London and has been studying and working in Beijing, was deported back to the UK for reasons that were never fully explained.
As for me, if I stay in Beijing during the Olympics, I expect to be put under house arrest. So, should I go back to Lhasa? Friends and relatives there tell me: “You’d better wait until after the Olympics.”
All the power to this feisty lady, she’ll need all fortitude and providence she can get in taking on the might of the most depraved regime.
Great Blog by the way!
http://one-just-world.blogspot.com/2008/07/letter-to-hu-jintao.html
My experience: I oppose any form of extreme nationalism, so I tried to build a rational dialogue with who posting on ‘invisible tibet’ Chinese version, and forge friendship, but unfortunately my comments not welcomed. I found only raucous personal attacks between Han and Tibetans to go visible. Now I have big question mark on her intension.
Well, dialogue is important. However, the foundation should be respect for truth and one of equal footing. If you try to promote so called dialogue in a way where oppressors wanted to impose their own will and fictionalized version, the dialogue will be doomed to fail. You are nothing more than a self-rightous yet a hidden chauvinist.