Happy Serf Emancipation Day!!!
July 8th 2010 16:08
His Highness the 14th Dali Lama
China, this week, refused to acknowledge the Dali Lama's 75th birthday, on Tuesday last, instead stating it much prefers to celebrate March 28, 1951, when the Chinese Army took over central Tibet, and May 23, 1959, the date the Chinese Army suppressed a Tibetan uprising, which China celebrates as "Serf Emancipation Day".
Or was thatSMURF Emancipation Day?
Yeah, that sounds about right!
I think it might be the latter, which would explain why the Chinese Government saw fit to use unwarranted and unnecessary brutal force to stamp out this peaceful menace to human kind, SMURFS are, afterall, a non-Chinese species and therefore must be a threat because they are not Chinese, and do not dress like Chinese and do not share Chinese language, cultural, or spiritual ideals,(HA! Just joking China, we all know you are Godless heathens) Worst of all, SMURFS do not share the ideals of the Chinese Government, which simply asks its people to toil away till death and to do it silently, while smiling for the foreign press.
Speaking of things inhumane and oppressive, how about this....
Following is a quoted report from IFEX (International Freedom of Expression Exchange: The global network for free expression), follow IFEX LINK which details another of the Chinese Government's long list of human rights abuses.
By the way, please note that this man of conscience was arrested during the Beijing Olympics, one of many!!!
Dhonup Wangchen
Dhondup Wangchen, a Tibetan filmmaker who has been held since March 2008, was sentenced on 28 December 2009 to six years in prison, Reporters Without Borders has learned from his family, which knows little of the charges on which he was convicted or his present state of health.
"This self-taught video-maker, who did nothing but film interviews with Tibetans, has been given a long jail term after judicial proceedings in which his defence rights were violated," Reporters Without Borders said. "This sentence is a disgrace for China."
The press freedom organisation added: "We call on the judicial authorities to allow Dhondup Wangchen to file an appeal and to grant him a new, fair trial in the presence of a lawyer chosen by him and in the presence of international observers."
Dhondup's cousin, Gyaljong Tsetrin, a refugee in Switzerland, told Reporters Without Borders: "I am dismayed by the fact that the entire judicial proceedings have been so unfair. I am also very worried for Dhondup Wangchen because he is in a critical situation and the authorities have denied him the medical treatment he needs for his hepatitis B."
Dhondup has been sentenced in Xining, the capital of the western province of Qinghai (which has areas with a large Tibetan population). In 2009, a people's court in Xining refused to allow him to be represented by a lawyer chosen by his family. Dhondup has until 7 January to appeal.
His wife, who is a refugee in northern India, said Dhondup just wanted "to do something for Tibet."
Tashi Wangchuk, the head of the Association of Tibetan Journalists, told Reporters Without Borders: "We condemn this decision by the government in Beijing as it is a violation of press freedom. It is deplorable that we do not even know what charges were brought against him, where he is being held and what his current state of health is."
Dhondup was arrested on 26 March 2008 after filming interviews with Tibetans for a documentary called "Leaving Fear Behind".
Dhondup is one of a number of "Olympic prisoners" who were arrested before or during the Olympic Games and who are still being held. Reporters Without Borders is pressing for their release.
YOU can sign a petition about poor Tashi Wangchuk, here; PETITION LINK
SHAME ON CHINA!!!!
AND SHAME ON THE IOC (International Olympic Committee) FOR LETTING CHINA HAVE THE OLYMPICS WHILE CONTINUING ITS CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION TIBETAN GENOCIDE!
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