CNN Report (29 April): '17 sentenced for alleged roles in Tibet riots'
- China has sentenced 17 people to jail terms ranging from three years to life, for their alleged roles in the Tibet riots.
- " "Monks have been taught legal knowledge in recent days and the monastery has resumed normal religious activities," Tenzin Namgyal, deputy director of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee, was quoted as saying.
Other monasteries that were closed will be reopened soon, he said."
Other monasteries that were closed will be reopened soon, he said."
- "Chinese authorities have increased patriotic education classes that require monks to make ritual denunciations of the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader Dalai Lama, accept the Chinese-appointed Panchen Lama, and pledge allegiance to Beijing."
I wonder what the exact charges laid against the people sentenced to life were. I also wonder if all the people sentenced were Tibetans, or if there were any Hans Chinese prosecuted. Were the Hans Chinese completely innocent during the violent riots? Were there no retaliation or violent acts on their part? We don't really know, because the Chinese state media has made it out that all the injured and killed were Hans, and the Tibetans, masterminded by the 'evil' Dalai Lama, were the violent barbaric perpetrators. How true was that?
While resuming talks with representatives of the Dalai Lama, the Chinese government conducts 'patriotic' education classes for monks in the Tibetan Autonomous Region that REQUIRES them to denounce their leader, the Dalai Lama. So-called legal education. It may be legal, but is it right?
Is this what China calls autonomy for Tibet?
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