1139: Tibet is the model for the Uyghur concentration camps. @bhuchungtsering, @GordonGChang
Image: The trench in front of the concentration camp at Kharkov. Along the cement pathway which crosses the photograph there appeared one day three representatives of the labor union at Kharkof. The unionists had voted to plead with the "extraordinary council" of the commune for less drastic measures in overcoming the sentiment against Bolshevism. The three delegates came unarmed and with the most peaceful intention. Without warning the guards of the concentration camp shot them as they crossed this bridge over the trench and they fell into the pit Bhuchung Tsering, @bhuchungtsering, vice president of the International Campaign for Tibet; and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, Daily Beast, in re: Tibet is the model for the Uyghur concentration camps. So many people protested China’s retreatment of Tibet that China had to hire bullies to push people away as the Olympic torch was being run. In 2008, we were assured that giving Olympics to China would improve treatment of Tibetans. Quite the opposite: the whole country now looks like a prison. Tibet has been the model where China experimented with extreme social control; the leader of that has been transferred to Xinjiang to do the same there. Why would the IOC award he games to China? Based on what happened in Tibet after 2008, need to see if the spirit of the games has been upheld by China. Not. China increased its clampdown; Xi introduced the Sinicization of Tibetan Buddhism! Now demands that the whole religion be controlled by China, to the degree of appointing the Dalai Lama. Monasteries have been closed; an essential Tibetan ritual at New Year. Most recent self-immolation was 2020; but China began to hurt the suicide’s entire family. There are protests in multiple countries against CCP brutality. “When you lie down with wolves, you do not get up.” https://www.thetibetpost.com/en/news/international/6948-i-want-to-urge-the-world-to-join-our-movement-and-boycott-the-upcoming-beijing-olympics-gonpo-dhondup https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/24/tibet.olympicgames2008