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Published Date: 06 March 2009
A NEW mural marking 50 years of Tibetan resistance to Chinese rule will be unveiled tomorrow outside St John's Church in Princes Street.
It shows a Tibetan monk being shot for calling for a "Free Tibet". Last year, a similar mural depicting a monk standing up to Chinese tanks in Tiananmen Square was defaced with a spray can.

MSPs, Tibetans and campaigners are expected to attend the unveiling ceremony at the West End church, which has a long tradition of controversial murals.

The painting marks the 50th anniversary of Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, being forced into exile and the first anniversary of the unrest and crackdown in Tibet in March last year.

Among those present will be Iain Thom, an Edinburgh member of Students for a Free Tibet, who hit the headlines before the Beijing Olympics by scaling a floodlight outside the Bird's Nest stadium and unfurling a pro-Tibet banner.

He said: "We want our politicians to take a stand and call on the Chinese government to stop the violence against peaceful protest and allow an independent UN delegation into Tibet."





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  • Last Updated: 06 March 2009 10:10 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Dragonhead,

Dalian, China 06/03/2009 13:04:51
The Dalai Lama was "forced into exile" my white, red neck *ss! He did a runner, he fled. As for the likes of Iain Thom,is even completely out of step with the Dalai Lama himself. He is only calling for more autonomy for Tibet.Autonomy he had before the failed uprising,not Freedom and an independent Tibet. He acknowledges that Tibet is an integral part of China, but don't let that stand in the way of zealots and self-serving activists with their own agendas getting it wrong.We are used to it by now.
China will not allow Tibet to sink back into the pig-sty of a medieval theocracy, where 95%of the population were treated and even addressed as two legged animals! Skinned alive by the aristocracy for the least offence.Even the term Dalai was to the Tibetans by the Chinese Emperor Shun Zhi, who granted the title to the 5th religious leader in 1653.The Gold seal of authority granting the title was written in Manchurian,Tibetan and Han.22Feb1940 Wu Zhong Xin was dispatched by the Guomindang Govt to preside over the "sitting in bed" ceremony and innauguration of the, then Dalai Lama. As for violence against Tibetans peacefully demonstrating? That included murdering innocents by torching properties,peaceful? It is only peaceful when Tibetans do it,is it? Tibetans are not the gentle, Buddhists of fairy tale western media.The treated their own far more savagely than the Chinese ever did or would.Nice word that "unrest",sanitized psychobabble for out of control rioters murdering innocents.Hypocrisy of the first degree.
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FreeThought247,

Edinburgh 09/03/2009 02:10:02
Are you paid per comment by the CCP, Dragonhead? Or are you a lone nutjob?

 

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