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Hiding the Bodies: Facebook Plays Footsie with China 
Sorry to harp on about this Tibetan business.I know most of you are busy frying other fish and there's nothing more boring than someone else's politics.It's just that to me this isn't politics at all.This is about humanity, suffering humanity.People are burning themselves to death on a weekly basis in Tibet because they reject military occupation by an economic superpower we in the West routinely trade with.To me it just doesn't seem right, and when something doesn't seem right I was brought up to think that it's my responsibility, as much as anyone's, to fix it.
Something else about the occupation isn't right. It's Facebook's censorship of aspects of the campaign against the Chinese presence. Dossier Tibet, the Facebook sister page of the website of the same name (www.dossiertibet.it ) has been locked by FB, which means that the account holder can't access it, and photographs of self-immolations that it posted have been removed. On what grounds could they do such a thing in the supposedly democratic world of the internet? (Of course, we know it's not that anymore. Hasn't been for a long time.)
We can only presume it was because of the graphic nature of the images. Anyone stumbling across them might find the sight of a burning body upsetting, even offensive. Yes, me too. But it's more offensive, much more offensive, that this boy or that old man had to set fire to himself because a foreign army is occupying his country, sterilising his women, destroying his language and religion, arresting and torturing dissenters, turning neighbour against neighbour. And I would go so far as to say that it's even more offensive than all of that to see the United Kingdom and the U.S.A., both cradles of freedom and democracy, trading so scurrilously with the nation guilty of all these horrendous crimes.
We citizens of the windy, self-righteous West need to know what's happening out there. The immoral things being done by our leaders in the name of traditions and principles that demand for them to do the very opposite.
It is an insult to the monks and lay people who have sacrificed their lives for Tibetan freedom to conceal the horror of their last moments from those whose conscience it was intended to arouse.
If you agree with this, why not drop an email Lord Allan of Hallam, who is the Facebook Director of Policy in Europe? He can be located at:[email protected]
Bruce Hodder
China arrests five more Tibetans on self-immolation charges
Phayul[Wednesday, February 27, 2013 23:36]
http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id...olation+charges
DHARAMSHALA, February 27: Chinese police in eastern Tibet have arrested five more Tibetans for the alleged roles in convincing three people to set themselves on fire.
Those arrested have been identified as Dhargey, Samten, Tashi Gyatso, Tenpei Gyalpo, and Tensang.
Chinese state news agency Xinhua today said that one of the main suspects “acted under the instructions” of members of the Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest pro-independence group in exile and journalists of the US based broadcaster, Voice of America.
“After each incident, Karong Takchen (Dhargey) and other suspects were on the spot to take photos and send them abroad,” the report cited the police as saying.
The five arrested have been blamed for “recruiting and encouraging” the self-immolation protests of Dorjee Rinchen, Thubwang Kyab, and Gonpo Tsering.
However, on January 31, a Chinese court in eastern Tibet had already sentenced six Tibetans to heavy jail terms of up to 12 years for their alleged roles in Dorjee Rinchen’s self-immolation protest.
Dorjee Rinchen, 57, set himself on fire in Labrang region of eastern Tibet on October 23, 2012. He carried out his protest near the local PLA recruiting center in Labrang and succumbed to his injuries at the scene.
Thubwang Kyab, 23, torched his body on the main street of Sangkog town in Sangchu on October 26, 2012 protesting China’s continued occupation of Tibet.
Gonpo Tsering, 19, self-immolated in Lushoe village in Tsoe region of eastern Tibet on November 10, 2012 raising slogans demanding freedom for Tibetans and the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
VoA has already dismissed China’s charges of its involvement in the self-immolations, calling them “totally false” and “absurd.” VoA Director David Ensor further called on Chinese official news agencies to “retract” their stories linking the US based broadcaster to the fiery protests.
TYC has also rejected China’s allegations as “baseless and fallacious” and instead called on the Chinese leaders to pay heed to the demands of the self-immolators.
Earlier this month, Chinese authorities in the Malho region of Tibet arrested 70 “criminal suspects” in connection with a “string of self-immolations that have occurred since November 2012.” Several other Tibetans have also been arrested on similar charges.
Dharamshala based rights group Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said China’s criminalisation of the self-immolations as “murder” is a “highly condemnable” misuse of legal provisions for fulfilling political objectives.
“The Chinese government needs to seriously address the real causes of self-immolation protests; it needs to acknowledge that the burning protests are a direct result of its destructive policies,” TCHRD said.
The United Nations, European Union, the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom have issued strong public statements blaming China’s policies for exacerbating the situation in Tibet and urged Beijing to address the grievances of the Tibetan people.
Anonymous Crash China’s Propaganda Site In Amdo, Tibet
27Feb
Anonymous has today crashed a further Chinese government site, the latest www.qh.gov.cn is a propaganda outlet servicing China’s regime that illegally occupies and oppresses the Tibetan region of Amdo. Thanks to our friends on Twitter for sharing news of this latest action..
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