Comment: Yes, there were some Tibetan dead but they were all killed by the Tibetan rioters, looters instigated by Dalai and none of them were killed by the police. None of the rioters were killed and even some of them were arrested and sentenced for their crime but none of them were sentenced to death for their towering crimes. If such crimes were done by Han Chinese, they would be definitely sentenced to death. Han Chinese are allowed only one child per family but the Tibeten Chinese are allowed as many children as they can. Besides all ethnic nationalities enjoy special allowances. I don't know why our government is so soft-handed to ethnic nationalities. I think all Chinese should be equally treated. Even so westerners accuse the Chinese government of killing Tibetan Chinese. Chinese people are angry just because the western medias have turned the truth upside down. Whoever have come to Tibet have to admit the great changes there. People's life there isn't any different from that of other places in China. Many of you don't know who Dalai is. In fact Dalai was the title given by the Chinese emperor of Yuan Dynasty and since then all Dalais have to be appointed and approved by the central Chinese government. The present Dalai was appointed by Guomindang Government 1948 before the communist took power. In 1959 the central government ordered a democratic reform in Tibet where a serf system was being enforecd there. A handful of upper class owned 100% of land and each of them owned hundreds or thousands of serfs who were treated like their livestock and cruelly beaten; many of them had their eyeballs taken while others had their hands or feet cut off, or their skins peeled off for making drums. The cruelty of the upper class is beyond words. The upper class headed by Dalai hated so much the central government that was different from any previous Chinese central government that allowed the slave system to go on. Thent they fled into India until now. If without the communist central government, Tibet would be definitely as dark as the middle ages. If without billions of fund and constant repair by the central government, all Tibetan temples and monasteriers would have long been reduced to rubbles. China has started to excercise its sovereignty over Tibet since Yuan Dynasty about 700 years ago, much longer than the US history. If China were to give up Tibet, should Americans give way to the Indians and go back to where you came from? Seeing is believing! Go to Tibet to see yourselves! Tibetan Chinese are just like the Han Chinese and lots of them have their private houses, cars and whatever you have they have.
Suffer, the Children
Chinese orphanages are gearing up to take care of those who lost parents in the Sichuan quake.
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Of all the wrenching images emerging from China's devastating earthquake, those of the hundreds of children crushed in their schools are probably the most poignant. But as grieving parents mourned their children, aid workers were rushing to help another vulnerable group: those left orphaned by the disaster. Chinese authorities announced Thursday that 4,000 children lost their parents on May 12—a terrible toll in a disaster where the number of official deaths now tops 50,000.
Care for Children, a private organization that runs more than 180 orphanages in over 30 provinces as well as assisting state facilities, is one of the groups trying to help the youngest victims. NEWSWEEK's Manuela Zoninsein spoke to Robert Glover, executive director of the Beijing-based group, about what he found during his recent visit to the quake-hit Chengdu area. Excerpts:
NEWSWEEK: How did the earthquake affect the children in your care?
Robert Glover: We know that nine child welfare institutions we work with were affected; they are in Chengdu, Deyang, Mianyang, Chongqing, Bazhong, Neijiang, Zigong, Yibin, Abazhou. On this most recent trip [to the quake zone] we were able to visit the first three; we don't know about the extent of damage to others. [At these three] all the people were fine in all of the orphanages, though some orphanage buildings and foster care families' homes collapsed. The biggest part is the psychological impact. People have never experienced anything like this. The only injury was a man with both legs bandaged with rough plaster casts. When the earthquake struck he got most of the children out of the building, but the last few were stuck so he climbed through a window and then with two children in his arms jumped out of the window and broke his legs.
Earlier this week China observed three minutes of silence at the start of a national mourning period. Can you describe what that was like?
[On Monday], when we visited the Chengdu Social Welfare Institutions, we stood with the staff to commence the three-day period of national mourning. It began at 2:28 p.m., marking the very moment the massive quake struck in Wenchuan County, Sichuan. Flags flew at half-mast; the people wore white flowers and, heads bowed, held hands. Across the country, horns and sirens wailed in grief. The staff at Chengdu were very upset, and as I held the hand of the orphanage director she started to cry.
How are people reacting to the aid you delivered?
[When] we arrived in Zitong we were met by the young [orphanage] director, who clearly was in shock. She told us that they had got all the children out of the orphanage safely. [The building suffered significant structural damage in the quake, and the children are now living in tents.] They had already received children from Anxian, close to Beichuan; it was a bit unclear if they were orphaned or still waiting to find out about their families. We spent some time with two 10-year-old girls that had been evacuated from a school in Anxian; they were clearly in shock, but I managed to get a little smile from one of them when we gave them a Mei Mei doll.
What does the structural damage look like?
On Tuesday we left Chengdu midday for the Mianyang orphanage, which is 100 miles north of Chengdu in a town called Zitong and closer to the epicenter. Over 10,000 people died in this region, with 75,000 injured and 15,000 missing. En route we saw again many ambulances, rescue teams and trucks with aid on the road. As we got closer, the terrain became more mountainous, and more and more damage could be seen to buildings. Most people had moved out into makeshift tents. As we went through Mianyang it was clear the town was hit very hard. Many people sat on the side of the road staring into space. When we arrived in Zitong I was surprised that no cleanup had taken place—lots of rubble on the streets from collapsed buildings.
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