Yesterday at 11:30 am, I was given an opportunity to be interviewed by Ms. Diane Butler on Newsworld about the current visit of the Dalai Lama to Canada. I took this opportunity to point out a few issues concerning Dalai's visit. Although both the Canadian government and the Dalai Lama insisted to consider the visit religious in nature, those who push for "Tibet independence" would likely use his visit for political gains. The events in the last two days confirmed that sentiment.
During the interview, I also took issue with the phrase "cultural genocide", coined by the Dalai Lama. It is absurd to call the fast social and economical development in a few cities in Tibet "cultural genocide." It is misleading to the global audience and harmful to foster dialogue between groups with opposing political views.
I further noted that it is a long-term foreign policy of the Canadian Government to recognized China's sovereignty over all China, including Tibet. The Tibet separatists have called Mr. Martin's spiritual meeting to the Dalai Lama a "baby step." This is a wilful misinterpretation that their Tibet independence agenda could in any sense become acceptable to the Canadian foreign policy.
After the live on-camera interview, I had a long conversation with Mr. Eric Sorensen, a well-respected CBC TV journalist. I explained the complexity of the issue on Tibet. For instance, I argued that "Tibet independence" is vague idea that most Canadians have not been informed of. What is their vision for Tibet society, Democracy? Theocracy? Or Dictatorship by the elites from Dhasramsala?
Very few people in Canada realize the sufferings "bestowed" by the Tibetan feudal theocracy upon the Tibetan people before the so-called Chinese invasion. Very few people know that under the feudal theocracy of the old Tibet, there was institutionalised slavery. Except a small portion, most Tibetans were slaves owned by slave owners. Slave owners had completely control of his slaves. How many Tibetan slaves were mutilated and tortured? Of all of the atrocities of the Tibet feudalism, the theocratic establishment was an integral part.
Although nowadays the Dalai Lama claims that he has abandoned his Tibet separatist past, it is undeniable that, in the past, he had extensive dealings with many organizations hostile to the new Chinese government, under the fuzzy pretence of fighting for "Tibet freedom." The purpose of those co-operations on the surface take the guise of freedom fighting, but the real design behind the co-operations was to fit the Tibet independence movement into the strategic blockade of China, which lasted for more than two decades. Those blockades caused tremendous economical hardship and aimed to deprive basic necessity for a nation and its citizens to survive. Combined with the internal disasters in China, those blockades caused untold sufferings of the Chinese people. Was the Dalai Lama thinking about peace and human rights when he supported and participated those blockades?
The Dalai Lama had little hesitation in using the phrase "Cultural genocide" to describe the current situation in Tibet. He must be wilfully blind to the history of the last two hundred year of the Americas. He must be pretending that he is a genuine messiah for the inhabitants of Dharamsala. Since the 1950s, the Tibetan exile population in that mountainous city has steadily increased to more 100,000 today. The presence of such a large foreign population has changed completely the local social and political landscape. I wonder what would Dalai characterize this reality?
It is issues like these, and many others, which clearly demonstrate the hideous nature of the so-called Tibet independence movement. As for the Dalai Lama, we should not only hear what he preaches and prays, but also examine what he did and does.
Fuhu Wang
OACCUA
During the interview, I also took issue with the phrase "cultural genocide", coined by the Dalai Lama. It is absurd to call the fast social and economical development in a few cities in Tibet "cultural genocide." It is misleading to the global audience and harmful to foster dialogue between groups with opposing political views.
I further noted that it is a long-term foreign policy of the Canadian Government to recognized China's sovereignty over all China, including Tibet. The Tibet separatists have called Mr. Martin's spiritual meeting to the Dalai Lama a "baby step." This is a wilful misinterpretation that their Tibet independence agenda could in any sense become acceptable to the Canadian foreign policy.
After the live on-camera interview, I had a long conversation with Mr. Eric Sorensen, a well-respected CBC TV journalist. I explained the complexity of the issue on Tibet. For instance, I argued that "Tibet independence" is vague idea that most Canadians have not been informed of. What is their vision for Tibet society, Democracy? Theocracy? Or Dictatorship by the elites from Dhasramsala?
Very few people in Canada realize the sufferings "bestowed" by the Tibetan feudal theocracy upon the Tibetan people before the so-called Chinese invasion. Very few people know that under the feudal theocracy of the old Tibet, there was institutionalised slavery. Except a small portion, most Tibetans were slaves owned by slave owners. Slave owners had completely control of his slaves. How many Tibetan slaves were mutilated and tortured? Of all of the atrocities of the Tibet feudalism, the theocratic establishment was an integral part.
Although nowadays the Dalai Lama claims that he has abandoned his Tibet separatist past, it is undeniable that, in the past, he had extensive dealings with many organizations hostile to the new Chinese government, under the fuzzy pretence of fighting for "Tibet freedom." The purpose of those co-operations on the surface take the guise of freedom fighting, but the real design behind the co-operations was to fit the Tibet independence movement into the strategic blockade of China, which lasted for more than two decades. Those blockades caused tremendous economical hardship and aimed to deprive basic necessity for a nation and its citizens to survive. Combined with the internal disasters in China, those blockades caused untold sufferings of the Chinese people. Was the Dalai Lama thinking about peace and human rights when he supported and participated those blockades?
The Dalai Lama had little hesitation in using the phrase "Cultural genocide" to describe the current situation in Tibet. He must be wilfully blind to the history of the last two hundred year of the Americas. He must be pretending that he is a genuine messiah for the inhabitants of Dharamsala. Since the 1950s, the Tibetan exile population in that mountainous city has steadily increased to more 100,000 today. The presence of such a large foreign population has changed completely the local social and political landscape. I wonder what would Dalai characterize this reality?
It is issues like these, and many others, which clearly demonstrate the hideous nature of the so-called Tibet independence movement. As for the Dalai Lama, we should not only hear what he preaches and prays, but also examine what he did and does.
Fuhu Wang
OACCUA
