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February 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Meanwhile a “management committee” has been established in every
monastery to “oversee affairs” according to the Tibetan United
Front Work department.
In January, temples across Tibetan areas, which are forbidden from hanging
portraits of the Dalai Lama, were told instead to hang portraits of China’s
leaders from Mao Tse-tung to Hu Jintao, according to the Tibet Daily, a
state newspaper.
However, the new controls have failed to stem the protests. The latest
self-immolation came last Friday, when Tamchoe Sangpo set himself alight
during a prayer ceremony at Bongtak monastery in Qinghai.
A spokesman for Free Tibet said it was unclear why the spate of
self-immolations, which have traditionally been extremely rare, had suddenly
occurred, and why they had occurred only outside the TAR.
The protests came despite a focus, in the past two years, on improving the
economic livelihoods of Tibetans in provinces outside Tibet. In Sichuan, the
Chinese government, keen to improve the lot of poor Tibetan herders, has
dedicated 18 billion yuan (£1.8 billion) to building houses for them, and
moving them off the grasslands.
But many herders complain that they could not afford their new homes, which
left them far away from their animals.
“The government always thinks it is helping people, but sometimes they do
not know what people want. The herders have their own way of life, they
cannot be fixed to one place and it is not appropriate to break this
tradition,” said one ethnic Tibetan scholar in Beijing, who asked not
to be named. “Tibet needs modernisation, but not in the same way as
Beijing or Shanghai. It needs it in accordance with its history and cultural
heritage. Money cannot solve everything.”
At least two of the Tibetans who have set themselves alight left messages
calling for independence, and some observers believe that the suicides were
in part prompted by the example of the Arab Spring, which began with the
self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia.
As the Dalai Lama ages, some younger Tibetans believe his policy of a “Middle
Way” of accepting Chinese rule but asking for autonomy, does not go far
enough, and that there should be firmer action to seek Tibetan independence.
In leaflets that Sonam Wangyal distributed before he set himself on fire in
January, he said he did not wish for “personal glory” but for
“Tibet and the happiness of Tibetans.” He wrote: “The day of
happiness will come for sure”.
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