Let me start my points from a true story. A couple of years ago, on a World Conference on Women, many Tibetan women also attended the meeting. These Tibetan women are mainly from the two groups; the woman delegates from the Tibetan autonomous region of China and the woman delegates from an NGO on behalf of the “Free-Tibet” which is financially supported by the major western powers.
As usual, the woman delegates from the NGO claimed that the Tibetan culture is being destructed and the only way to rescue the Tibetan culture is to reverse the history to let the Dalai Lama come back to lead an “Independent Great Tibet” or “Highly Autonomous Great Tibetan Area.” The voiced out their claims in English, so that their claims were easily passed and quoted by the reporters of major western countries.
When the Tibetan women from the Tibet Autonomous Region of China tried to discuss the Tibetan Cultural Destruction issue with the Tibetan women from the “Free Countries,” and they found there was no way to communicate directly between them because the Tibetan women from the “free countries” do not speak Tibetan while the Tibetan women from Tibet do not speak English.
Thus, we saw two groups of Tibetans; though they are common on similar faces and having the similar costume styles, the difference between them is the group of Tibetans from “Free Countries” can speak English only but not Tibetan while the group of Tibetans from Tibet can speak Tibetan but not English. When the two Tibetan groups are arguing on the Tibetan issues, the English spoken Tibetans took advantage of the Tibetan spoken Tibetans since their can voice out directly to the journalists of “free countries” while none of the reporters from the “free countries” speaks Tibetan. Nevertheless, the reporters from the “free countries” never bothered to listen to what the Tibetan-spoken Tibetans’ voices through the interpreters. Then, ironically, on the major media and newspapers of the “free countries” the claim of the “Tibetan culture is being destructed” by the Tibetans who have already forgotten how to speak Tibetan are widely quoted while the voices of Tibetan spoken Tibetans were ignored by the journalists of “free countries.” The ignorance is actually an intentional ignorance.
Recently, some Tibetan mobs, actually a number of organized Tibetan terrorist groups indiscriminately killing the civilians in Lhasa as well as in some other Tibetan areas. The victims also include many ethnic Tibetans. A Tibetan young girl was burned dead together with other four girls of other ethnic Chinese when the mobs surrounded their shop and burn them alive. A middle school that many Tibetan children are attended was set on fire by the mobs too. Facing the bloody facts of terrorist activities, the journalists of the “free countries” that had been keen on “Anti Terrorist War” are showing their capricious reacts.
When the local police of Lhasa took actions to suppress the criminals, the western media described police action as “suppressing the demonstration” so that in their reports, the criminal mobs become demonstrators and the terrorist activities become peaceful demonstrations; and the civilians killed by the criminals all become the victims of the police suppression.
The media of the “free countries deliberately” deliberately refer the mobs as the Tibetans and refer the policemen and civilian victims as Chinese, though many policemen and the local government officials are ethnic Tibetans, and the civilian victims of the riots include Tibetans, Muslims, Hans and many other religious and ethnic Chinese. By their description, the event of the terrorists indiscriminately killing the civilians is deliberately worded as the conflict between ethnic Tibetan and other ethnics of Chinese.
Though many local policemen in Tibet are ethnic Tibetan, the majority of the local officials in Tibet who are leading the police suppressions are also ethnic Tibetans; the western media intentionally ignored this fact and deliberately describe them as Chinese officials and Chinese police. Since the Tibetan is an ethnic group of Chinese, describing a Tibetan as a Chinese is the same as describing a New Yorker as an American may be logically correct. However, their purpose to deliberately use the wording is to confuse and mislead their readers as if the event in Tibet were not a terrorist attack by criminals to the civilians but a conflict between the ethnic groups in China, and hint that the ethnic problem is cause by Chinese police suppression.
Actually, the criminals involved in this riot are not only ethnic Tibetans, there are also other ethnics of Chinese including Hans funded by the foreign organizations. The civilian victims also include many ethnics, many of them are Tibetans, all of them are so innocent and the badly violation of their human rights by the criminals are ignored by the media of “free countries” who have been chanting human right all the time. Just because this riot is a terrorist attack by the criminals in the name of Dalai Lama and Free Tibet funded and supported by the “free countries.”
The media of free countries are taking advantage of ignorance of the most audiences about Tibet so as to spread the biased publicity in favor of the Tibetan terrorists. That is why we can see some western newspapers “mistakenly” use the pictures of clashes between Tibetan demonstrators and Nepal police to describe that the Tibetan demonstrators are beaten by Chinese police, and we can also see many western newspapers “carelessly” ignored the fact that the Tibetan middle school was set on fire and the Tibetan girls were killed, and described the criminals as “demonstrators.”
Now we finally understand that the media of the “free countries” are so free that they can freely define any phrase and any event by intentionally ignoring some facts and deliberate use different wordings so as to mislead readers. The truth is always irrelevant for the media of the “free countries.”
