The more you go on with your ranting, the more you are hurting your own cause, if cause there is...
What is being destroyed is the very essence of Tibetan culture (not to mention the loss of lives), not because of the recent events and the closure of Tibet to the outside world, but the policies of the Chinese government in the TAR, such as the official and unofficial migration of hundred of thousands of Chinese into Lhasa and other Tibetan regions of the TAR, Qinghai, Sichuan, etc, making them less and less Tibetan day by day.
If China is really interested in making progress, it could start by acknowledging the terrible effects of its assimilation policies on Tibetans (and on Uyghur in East Turkestan, the next volcano ready to erupt in your face...and I guarantee you this time that Palestine will look like Disneyland in comparison), and at the same time start a real dialogue -which implies talking and listening to Tibetans, and giving a larger degree of autonomy and real and meaningful decision-making to those who are directly concerned. And don't talk to me about Native Americans and whatnot, that's not what we are discussing here.
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