Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Tibetans fight for freedom

In history there have been many protests against Chinese occupation over Tibet. As a result many Tibetans died seeing dreams of free Tibet. Every night they pray for the free Tibet and hope the day would come soon and when it happens they would return to their motherland. But China is growing rapidly which makes it more difficult to accomplish the dream of free Tibet.
Many Tibetans died in the protest on 1959 which dropped the Tibetans population. In 1989 another riot broke out cutting more than half of the Tibet’s population. At the end only woman and children were found in Lhasa leaving rarely any man . Most died in the protest and some fled to other countries with their family leaving all their property behind. Now if we go to Tibet, people will not find Tibetans who have been living there for generations because the original people who used to live in Lhasa where killed in the protest and some escaped. People that live in Lhasa today are mostly Chinese and the Tibetans that live there are from the village part of Tibet. Today in Tibet Chinese language is very important because most of the places are pre occupied by Chinese. Tibetans have to learn to speak Chinese to be able to stay in their own country.
The Chinese government says that if it wasn’t for them the Tibetans would have been illiterate farmers and living in same old fashioned way. They say they helped Tibetans by teaching them how to live. But, if they say that why are Tibetans s unhappy with them. I believe if that was true no Tibetans would go against them nor would they escape from Tibet leaving everything they have earned behind.

http://www.tibet.com/HumanRights/poptrans.html

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