Facts on Tibet
Independent Tibet: Some facts
February 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Before the Chinese Communist invasion of 1950 Tibet was a fully functioning and independent state. It threatened none of its neighbors, fed its population unfailingly, year after year, with no help from the outside world. Tibet owed no money to any country or international institutions, and maintained basic law and order. Tibet banned capital punishment in 1913 (mentioned by a number of foreign travelers [1]) and was one of the first countries in the world to do so. There is no record of it persecuting minorities (e.g. Muslims... [Read the full story]
The Alliance
Rangzen Alliance
January 1, 2002 · Leave a Comment
In March 1959 the people of Tibet rose up against the Chinese occupation army to restore Tibetan independence and to defend the sacred person and honour of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Following the invasion of Tibet by the Chinese army in 1949-50 the Dalai Lama had attempted to prevent conflict between an angry Tibetan populace and the Chinese. His efforts failed to contain the tyranny and brutality of Chinese rule, the violence of which was finally directed even against His sacred person. But Tibetan freedom fighters succeeded... [Read the full story]
The Charter
Rangzen Charter
January 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Displaying the old mountain and snowlion flag in Tibet is a “splittist” offence for which you could be shot on sight. In this year’s historic uprising, scores, even hundreds, of national flags were flown defiantly throughout Tibet to visually demonstrate, as it were, the clarion call of the protestors for “rangzen” — independence. There can be no doubt that the people of Tibet are calling for rangzen. In a real sense even their other demand for the Dalai Lama’s return is a declaration of independence since... [Read the full story]
Book Reviews
Shadow Tibet: a review
May 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Jamyang Norbu says in the introduction to this collection of his essays that his role model is George Orwell. Having read Orwell’s collected essays, and Jamyang Norbu’s, I think that Orwell might well feel proud of his pupil. Another of his heroes is Simon Leys, the erudite Sinologist who, almost alone among those of his creed, exposed the fallacies of the Chinese Communists’ long before any others saw through their pretensions. Like Orwell and Leys, Jamyang Norbu has long railed against the lies and abuses of totalitarianism... [Read the full story]
DEA
Direct Economic Action (DEA)
January 1, 2002 · Leave a Comment
Probably one of the most underused but powerful weapon individual modern man has to effect political and social change in this commerce driven world of ours is his purchasing power. It has been underused because the correlation between “shopping” and political freedom is not an immediate one to most people, and also required, at least in the past, prohibitive organisational and communications resources to implement. But this is all changing, or so an article in the Financial Times (London) entitled “How... [Read the full story]
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Jamyang Norbu says in the introduction to this collection of his essays that his role model is George Orwell. Having read Orwell’s collected essays,... [Read more]
Tibet, Tibet. The title of Patrick French’s latest book intrigued me. Vaguely suggestive of a biblical lament, it also hinted at a kind of patient reproach,... [Read more]
In his Epistulae (Letters) the younger Pliny mentions that his uncle the natural historian and philosopher, Pliny the Elder, used to say that “no book... [Read more]