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Dalai Lama describes Chinese torture of Innocent Tibetans. What is unbelievable ...is that, despite all the description given by him, he says that there are many other events, WHICH ARE TOO EVIL TO MENTION. The following is the article about International Commisions enquiry on the Tibetan Refugees, taken from the book "My Land and My People" by Dalai Lama. The words of Dalai Lama :-

In its inv...estigation, the Commision examined every Chinese and Tibetan statement, and send its trained men to interrogate Tibetan Refugees, and in doing so brought to light more horrors than even I had heard of. I do not think most people want to read of the extremes of cruelty, and I do not want to write of them, but in justice to my own people I must sum up the oppressions which that impartial enquiry revealed.
Tens of thousands of our people have been killed, not only in military actions, but individually and deliberately. They have been killed, without trial, on suspicion of opposing communism, or of hoarding money, or simply because of their position, or for no reason at all. But mainly and fundamentally they have been killed because they would not renounce their religion. They have not only been shot, but beaten to death, crucified, burned alive, drowned, vivisected, starved, strangled, hanged, scalded, burned alive, disemboweled, and beheaded. This killings have been done in public. The victim’s fellow villagers and friends and neighbours have been made to watch them, and eye witnesses described them to Commision. Men and Women have been slowly killed while their own families were forced to watch, and small children have even been forced to shoot their parents.
Lamas have been specially persecuted. The Chinese said they were unproductive and lived on the money of the people. The Chinese tried to humiliate them, especially the elderly and and most respected, before they tortured them, by harnessing them to plough, riding them like horses, whipping and beating them, and OTHER METHODS TOO EVIL TO MENTION. And while they were slowly putting them to death, they taunted them with their religion, calling on them to perform miracles to save themselves from pain and death.
Apart from these public killings, great numbers of Tibetans have been imprisoned or rounded up and taken away to unknown destinations, great numbers have died from the brutalization and privations of forced labours, and many have commited suicide in despair and misery. When men have been driven to take to the mountains as guerillas, the women and children left in their villages have been killed with machine guns.
Many thousands of children, from fifteen years of age down to babies still at the breast, have been taken away from their parents and never seen again, and parents who protested have been imprisoned or shot. The Chinese either declared that parents could work better without their children, or that the children would be sent to china to be properly educated.
Many Tibetan men and women believe the Chinese have sterilized them. They independently described the a painful operation to the interrogators of the International Commision. The Commision did not accept their evidence as conclusive, because the operation did not correspond to any methods of sterilizations known to the medical profession in India. But on the other hand, there was no other explanation to it, and since the Commision’s report was completed, new evidence has been given which has convinced me that the Chinese did sterilize all the men and women of a few villages.
Besides these crimes against the people, the Chinese have destroyed hundreds of our monasteries, either by physically wrecking them, or by killing the lamas and sending the monks to the labour camps, ordering monks under pain of death to break their vows of celibacy, and using the empty monastic buildings and temples as army barracks and stables.
On all the evidence which they collected, the International Commision considered the Chinese guilty of “the gravest crime of which any person or nation can be accused” – that is, of genocide, “the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such”. They were satisfied that the Chinese intend to destroy the Buddhists of Tibet.

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Just as every pious Muslim dreams of seeing Mecca once in his lifetime, every exiled born Tibetan dreams to see Tibet once in his lifetime.

The author is Dean of School at the Woodhall School, a private school in Connecticut.
Just as every pious Muslim dreams of seeing Mecca once in his lifetime, every exiled born Tibetan dreams to see Tibet once in his lifetime. I held that dream for years and first attempted to realize my dream in 1996, right after my graduation from the graduate school. Unfortunately, I had to abandon my plan, because a fellow Fulbright Scholar, Ngawang Choephel, was captured by the Chinese authority during his trip to Tibet. Like Choephel, my political status at the time was stateless - which meant that I'd have no country looking for me if I were arrested by the Chinese Security Police for real or perceived for suspicions.

Eleven years later, in the summer of 2007, now equipped with an American Passport, I travelled in Tibet. To respect the wishes of my co-travellers, I will not mention their names or their experience of travelling with me for forty days in Tibet. When I say Tibet, I don't just mean the truncated half of Tibet that the Chinese Government calls Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). To us Tibetans, Tibet always consists of three provinces, Dohtoe (Kham), Dohme (Amdo) and Ustang (the Central Tibet), territory expanding 2.1 million square kilometers, nearly half of which has been incorporated into the neighboring Chinese provinces after the Chinese occupation of Tibet in the 1950s.

My first entry point in Tibet was the eastern border town, Dartsedoh, which now goes by the Chinese name, Kanding. A regular tourist, ignorant of Tibetan history, could never be able to tell that this town was a thriving Tibetan trading center only fifty years ago, because the town, except for a few monasteries, carries little sign of its Tibetan origins. Trade still flourished, but there were hardly any Tibetans, who have become an insignificant minority. A handful of Tibetans in the town, in their last ditch effort to save their dying customs and culture, gather every evening, seven days a week, at the edge of the town and dance; men, women, and children form a big circle and just dance to the tune of their old folk songs. When I foolishly tried to enquire what the idea of gathering and dancing every day was, they suspected me of being a Chinese informer, and snubbed me.

I later learned that I had to introduce myself by showing my American passport to convince them that I was a fellow Tibetan from exile. The moment they learned that I was a genuine fellow brother from exile, unvented emotions poured out. My guide in Kandze introduced me to a young man who spent two years in prison for taking part in a peaceful demonstration; he'd witnessed the execution of two of his friends who were accused of organizing the demonstration. A nomad in Tromgyal, a village several hours from Kandze, moaned that his son was still serving in prison for participating in a demonstration in Kandze. On our way from Tromgyal to Nyishul, plain-clothed Chinese police stopped our minibus and searched the bus for a Tibetan woman, whose photo was held in one of policemen's hand.

We arrived at the Nyoshul Monastery. There were no Chinese in this remote and 4500 meter elevated region. I distributed Chaney, holy grains blessed by the Nechung Oracle in India, to the monks and nuns in Nyishul monastery. As they scrambled for Chaney, they asked me how His Holiness the Dalai Lama was. Amidst the rugged Khampa vernacular, I heard a nun speaking to me in an immaculate Lhasan dialect. I later asked her how she ended up in this part of Tibet. She's one of the singing nuns, who defied the Chinese authority by singing a song declaring their allegiance to the Dalai Lama in the Draphci prison in Lhasa. With pressure from the Chinese authority, she was not accepted back to her nunnery after being released from the prison. In pursuit of her spiritual quest, secretly she moved to eastern Tibet, outside of TAR, where there is slightly more freedom to practice religion. I heard similar sad stories from individuals in Lithang, Nyarong, and Nagchukha. These are the region outside of TAR.

The situation in Lhasa, the Capital City of Tibet, was even more tense. This tension was not noticeable until I began interacting with the local Tibetan communities, which I wouldn't have been able to do without my faithful guide. Tibetans were desperate and frustrated to see that they are becoming second class citizens in their own country. The majority of Tibetan youths are illiterate or semi-literate. Except for Barkor Circuit Bazzar, major portion of the city was overtaken by the migrant Chinese. When I asked my guide why Tibetans didn't take loans from the Government to start up businesses to compete with the Chinese settlers, he grumbled, "That's easy for you to say, you live in a free country." He took me to the new Lhasa Railway Station; it was an impressive structure that you would think any resident of Lhasa would be proud of. "This used to be residences and an agricultural field," said my guide. "They were thrown out of here with a compensation of only twenty-eight thousand yuans. They're now begging in the streets of Lhasa. The Chinese called this a development, but for us Tibetans it's a nail in the coffin. The train brings over three thousand Han Chinese to Lhasa a week, and most of them will stay here for good, because of the Government subsidy."

Lhasa is not alone where Tibetans are marginalized; I visited Tsethang, the capital of the ancient Yarlung Empire. The legend says this is where the first Tibetan race was born. But my first impression of the city was that I was in China, not in Tibet. Hotels, shopping complexes, residents, and streets are remarkably modern, but there was an eerie absence of Tibetans. Sensing my discomfort, my guide took to the Tibetan sector of the city, which is far less developed. I told my guide that I want to visit Kongpo, my parents' home county. "You need a special permit to go there," my guide said. "You'll not like it. There are even Chinese, more than here."

In exile, the campaign by both the Tibetan Government in Exile and non government organizations focused primarily on China's suppression of political and religious freedom inside Tibet. What I gathered was that China's shrewd ethnic cleansing policy of promoting a massive Han population transfer into Tibet in their attempt to turn the Tibetans into an insignificant minority in their own country and eliminating the original Tibetan names of places is more dangerous than denying political and religious freedom. If the Han migration to Tibet continues at the present rate, it won't be too long before Tibetan struggle from exile will become meaningless. Tibetans inside Tibet are resilient; they have resisted and survived the Chinese repression for the past fifty years, but this new onslaught cannot be resisted with willpower alone.

I asked questions about how to tackle this problem to Tibetan Prime Minster in Exile, Samdong Rinpoche, and other Tibetan intellectuals at the seminars and conferences I've attended. They all agreed with the gravity of the situation, but, like me, none of them seem to have the answer. Considering the enormity of the problem, and bereft of a solution, the issue falls into the background of the Human Rights abuse, religious and political repression.

Although he has rarely used it to address this problem specifically, I believe the Dalai Lama's Middle Way Approach is his endeavor to tackle this problem. The Tibetan Government in Exile, headed by the new Tibetan Prime Minster and Tibet Support Groups around the world, should be more vocal and bring this issue to the forefront their campaigns. This issue is neither political nor religious, but rather the question of the survival of a race.

The author is Dean of School at the Woodhall School, a private school in Connecticut.

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The Aspiration of every Tibetan

Osho on Invasion of Tibet by China

"If there were something civilised in man, every nation would have stood against the invasion of Tibet by China. It is the invasion of matter against consciousness. It is invasion of materialism against spiritual heights."
Acharya Rajneesh

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Unfortunately, Tibet has fallen into a darkness. Its monasteries have been closed, its seekers of truth have been forced to work in labour camps. The only country in the world which was working - a one-pointed genius, all its intelligence in the search of one's own interior and its treasures has been stopped by the communist invasion of Tibet.

And it is such an ugly world that nobody has objected to it. On the contrary, because China is big and powerful, even countries which are more powerful than China can ever be, like America, have accepted that Tibet belongs to China. That is sheer nonsense - just because China is powerful and everybody wants

China to be on its side. Neither have the Soviets denied the claim of China aside - even India has not objected. It was such a beautiful experiment, and Tibet had no weapons to fight, they had no army to fight; they had never thought about it.

Their whole thing was an introvert pilgrimage.

Nowhere has such concentrated effort been made to discover man's being. Every family in Tibet used to give their eldest son to some monastery where he was to meditate and grow closer to awakening. It was a joy to every family that at least one of them was wholeheartedly, twenty-four hours a day, working on the inner being. They were also working but they could not give all their time; they had to create food and clothes and shelter, an in Tibet it is a difficult matter. The climate is not very helpful; to live in Tibet is a tremendous trouble. But still every family used to give their first-born child to the monastery.

There were hundreds of monasteries… and these monasteries should not be compared with any Catholic monasteries. These monasteries have no comparison in the whole world. These monasteries were concerned only with one thing - to make you aware of yourself.

Thousands of devices have been created down the centuries so that your lotus can blossom and you can find your ultimate treasure, the diamond. These are just symbolic words, but the destruction of Tibet should be known in history, particularly man becomes a little more aware and humanity a little more humane… This is the greatest calamity of the twentieth century that Tibet has fallen into the hands of materialists who don't believe that you have anything inside you. They believe that you are only matter and your consciousness is only a by-product of matter. And all this is simply without any experience of the inner - just logical, rational philosophising.

Not a single communist in the world has meditated, but it is strange - they all deny the inner. Nobody thinks about how the outer can exist if there is no inner. They exist together, they are inseparable. And the outer is only a protection for the inner, because the inner is very delicate and soft. But the outer is accepted and the inner is denied. And even if sometimes it is accepted, the world is dominated by such dirty politicians that they use even the inner experiences for ugly ends.

Just the other day, I came to know that America is now training its soldiers in meditation so that they can fight without any nervous breakdown, without going mad, without feeling any fear so they can lie down in their ditches silently, calm and cool and collected. No meditator may have ever thought that meditation can also be used for fighting wars, but in the hands of politicians everything becomes ugly - even meditation. Now the army camps in America are teaching meditation so that their soldiers can be more calm and quiet while killing people. But I want to warn America: you are playing with fire. You don't understand exactly what meditation will do. Your soldiers will become so calm and quiet that they will throw away their weapons and they will simply refuse to kill. A meditator cannot kill; a meditator cannot be destructive. So they are going to be surprised one day that their soldiers are no longer interested in fighting. War, violence, murder, massacre of millions of people - this is not possible if a man knows something of meditation. Then he knows the other whom he is killing. He is his brother. They all belong to the same oceanic existence.

If humanity were a little more aware, Tibet should be made free because it is the only country which has devoted almost two thousand years to doing nothing but going deeper into meditation. And it can teach the whole world something which is immensely needed.

But communist China is trying to destroy everything that has been created in two thousand years. All their devices, all their whole spiritual climate is being polluted, poisoned. But they are simple people; they cannot defend themselves. They don't have anything to defend themselves with - no tanks, no bombs, no airplanes, no army. An innocent race which lived without any war for two thousand years… It disturbs everybody - even to reach there is a difficult task. They live on the very roof of the world. The highest mountains, eternal snow, is their home. Leave them alone! China will not lose anything, but the whole world will be benefited by their experience.

Tibet should be left as an experimental lab for man's inner search. But not a single nation in the world has raised its voice against this ugly attack on Tibet. And China has not only attacked it, they have amalgamated it into their map. Now, on the modern Chinese map, Tibet is their territory.

And we think the world is civilised, where innocent people who are not doing any harm to anybody are simply destroyed. And with them, something of great importance to all humanity is also destroyed. If there were something civilised in man, every nation would have stood against the invasion of Tibet by China. It is the invasion of matter against consciousness. It is invasion of materialism against spiritual heights.

(From "Om Mani Padme Hum: The Sound of Silence, The Diamond in the Lotus" talk given by Osho in 1988 at the Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune, India.)