Threat to World Peace
The Dalai Lama was invited to participate in a peace conference scheduled to take place in South Africa on March 27. The invitation to the world-renowned spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, a man of peace, kindness and goodwill toward all, was extended by Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Desmond Tutu, Martti Ahtisaari and F.W. deKlerk, along with Norway's Nobel Peace Committee.
All of whom sterling personalities know a thing or two about peace, recognizing in the Dalai Lama the quintessential champion of peace and brotherhood. Ah, but South Africa's foreign affairs spokesman speaking on behalf of his government has revoked that invitation.
At the behest of their great good friend, China. "The South African government has not extended any invitation to the Dalai Lama to come to South Africa" solemnly intoned Ronnie Mamoepa. Without a hint of embarrassment. To spare China more than a hint of embarrassment, although in fact, this situation will or should bring embarrassment to China.
Since at the very moment it is exercising its authoritarian autonomy itself, bringing peace to the ethnic Tibetan portion of Qinghai province, where Chinese police have 'detained' close to a hundred monks in the wake of rioting Tibetans attacking a police station over the disappearance of one of their own. Detained, as it happened by police for engaging in independence activities; a despised splittist.
And then there's the issue of thousands of people rioting in the wake of a suicide. A 25-year-old monk at the Ragya monastery where police locked down the monastery because Tashi Sangpo removed the Chinese flag and replaced it with the Tibetan national flag over the monastery's main prayer hall. The monk preferred to take his own life rather than be detained by Chinese police, wonder why...?
Friends of Tibet issued a statement giving their view of the usefulness of the proposed peace conference under these circumstances: "We believe that the barring of his holiness to attend the peace conference makes a mockery of the intentions of this conference".
Amen.
All of whom sterling personalities know a thing or two about peace, recognizing in the Dalai Lama the quintessential champion of peace and brotherhood. Ah, but South Africa's foreign affairs spokesman speaking on behalf of his government has revoked that invitation.
At the behest of their great good friend, China. "The South African government has not extended any invitation to the Dalai Lama to come to South Africa" solemnly intoned Ronnie Mamoepa. Without a hint of embarrassment. To spare China more than a hint of embarrassment, although in fact, this situation will or should bring embarrassment to China.
Since at the very moment it is exercising its authoritarian autonomy itself, bringing peace to the ethnic Tibetan portion of Qinghai province, where Chinese police have 'detained' close to a hundred monks in the wake of rioting Tibetans attacking a police station over the disappearance of one of their own. Detained, as it happened by police for engaging in independence activities; a despised splittist.
And then there's the issue of thousands of people rioting in the wake of a suicide. A 25-year-old monk at the Ragya monastery where police locked down the monastery because Tashi Sangpo removed the Chinese flag and replaced it with the Tibetan national flag over the monastery's main prayer hall. The monk preferred to take his own life rather than be detained by Chinese police, wonder why...?
Friends of Tibet issued a statement giving their view of the usefulness of the proposed peace conference under these circumstances: "We believe that the barring of his holiness to attend the peace conference makes a mockery of the intentions of this conference".
Amen.
Labels: Crisis Politics, Peace, World News
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