Hundreds of Tibetans from various NSW regions, including Sydney, Dee Why, the Blue Mountains, and Newcastle, gathered in front of the Chinese Consulate in Sydney.
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The rally was jointly organised by seven local Tibetan community organisations, including the regional “Chushi Gangdruk”, and the regional “Youth Congress” based in Sydney and surrounding areas, to pay tribute to Tibetan activist Rangzen Lobga for fighting to reclaim the independence of Tibet, to protest against continued political repression in Tibet, and to oppose the implementation of the so-called “Ethnic Unity Law”.
As Tibetans living in different countries, such as the US, India, and European states, have been staging day-long mass protests since Lobga Rangzen set himself ablaze and died at the Headquarters of the United Nations, the protests have been carried out to show their strongest solidarity with him and their strongest support for his calls to reclaim the national sovereignty of Tibet, and to protest against China’s illegal invasion, continued military occupation, and modern authoritarian communist and socialist colonisation.
They also oppose the recently introduced so-called “Ethnic Unity Law”, which is particularly aimed at completely erasing the national sovereignty of Tibet and the cultural, spiritual, and linguistic identities of the Tibetan people.
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The mass rallies across the world sent a clear message that captured the attention of the international community and governments. Their rally slogans were as follows: “Stop ‘Ethnic Unity Law’, in Tibet!”; “Independence of Tibet, Crystal Clear!”: uncompromised and absolute; “Long live, Dalai Lama!”; “Stop cultural genocide, in Tibet!”; “Stop political repression, in Tibet!”; “We will never give up, freedom in Tibet!”; “People of the world, support Tibet!”; “Tibet belongs to, Tibetans!”; “Wake up, UNO!”; “UNO, we want justice!”; “Stop torturing, in Tibet!”; “What do we want? Freedom!”; “When do we want it? Now!”; “Who is the killer? Xi Jinping”; “Allow free media, in Tibet!”; and “Stop genocide, in Tibet!”.
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This 1944 (pre-communist China) American documentary suggests otherwise. Tibet was considered part of China long before it officially became one with it. Besides, the people of Tibet were genuinely slaves, I can’t imagine why people are so upset abou t the feudal system being done away with.
This is exactly a narrative spread by Chinese propaganda to justify Tibet’s annexation. This framing doesn’t make sense in many ways, one being that Tibetans have been slaves and subordinates to Communist China since 1949. Even if this is true, replacing one form of slavery and subordination by another isn’t freedom.
Tibet has never been a part of China anywhere in its pre-1949 history.
Are you absolutely certain America was pushing chinese communist propaganda in 1944? Are you certain you want to use the highly politically motivated and American backed (both financially and politically) Tibetan government in exile website as a source here? The Tibetan government in exile was created by and for the former Tibetan ruling class who, and I cannot stress this enough, owned people. Peasants they had the legal and religious right to punish however they wanted. In no world can their word be considered reliable.
You’re repeating the same narrative, posting the same source, accusing others of propaganda - typical ml I would say.
There is ample historical evidence that Tibet was never part of China.
And it must be said that replacing one form of slavery and subordination by another isn’t freedom, it’s still slavery. Among the 56 officially recognized ethnic groups in China, and 55 are oppressed. Tibetans are one of them.
I’d argue being a worker with rights is significantly better than being a peasant without rights but whatever you say man. If you do want other sources though here’s a short, well sourced, essay on Tibetan feudalism written by a historian who is not Chinese. All of the sources used are western and many are politically opposed to China.
I repeated myself because what you said didn’t make sense and never addressed my argument.
Redsail is among the worst propaganda platforms. They do nothing else than Chinese disinformation.
If you don’t come up with reliable sources, I end this discussion.
Redsails didn’t write that nor did they write any of the sources used in the essay. Feel free to offer sources of your own to back your own claims that aren’t immediately and obviously affiliated with relevant powers that have conflicts of interest on this matter.
Dismissing a source because the website hosting it says a lot of stuff you disagree with is deeply unserious.
Dismissing a source because the website hosting it says a lot of stuff you disagree with is deeply unserious.
While I agree with you, I wouldn’t trust anything InfoWars said and we shouldn’t what the BBC has posted about Israel.
I love this account always attacking sources others provide but when people do the same to their obvious propaganda or opinion pieces all that happens is they ignore it or attack the person for daring to say hey can you not post such obvious propaganda
That doesn’t matter. Redsails has a strong selection bias, they use sources and data to support predefined narratives only, very much like these ml communities here in the Fediverse. This is rubbish. I am out of this conversation.
Wtf?
This is the way. Down with the authoritarian CCP government.
