IOC's decision to cut deal with Beijing on Internet censorship "irresponsible at best, complicit at worst"

L’ 8 Agosto inizieranno le Olimpiadi di Pechino. La festa organizzata dal regime comunista cinese e sostenuta dalle grandi multinazionali ha molti invitati. Parteciperanno all’evento uomini del regime, speculatori finanziari, manager delle multinazionali, politici occidentali ipocriti, ricchi borghesi, avventurieri e sordi di professione. Tutte queste persone negano con la loro presenza il grido di una verità storica clamorosa: l’esistenza dei laogai (campi di concentramento dove soffrono la schiavitù milioni di persone).

HONG KONG — China and India have seldom shared the same views on free trade in recent years, but they ended up on the same side at the collapse of world trade talks in Geneva on Tuesday because China made an abrupt about-face.
Growing worries in China about food security now appear to have overridden the country’s previous commitment to free trade — a commitment that has served it well until now as the country with the world’s second-largest trade surplus after Germany.

New Delhi, July 30 - Kunsang Sonam was in the middle of the Lhasa uprising when it happened on March 10 this year. He managed to escape over into Nepal and live to tell of the terror that had gripped his homeland. A first person account of a protestor and eyewitness in Lhasa was organized by the Friend's of Tibet on Tuesday at the India International Centre, New Delhi. The talk was moderated by Tenzin Tsundue, Tibetan activist and poet.

Authorities in China sentence a teacher who criticized the construction in quake-hit schools to one year in a labor camp, his wife says.
HONG KONG—Police in Sichuan have sentenced a middle-school teacher who openly criticized the construction of school buildings that collapsed in large numbers during the May 12 earthquake to one year of "re-education through labor," according to his wife.

Dharamsala, July 29: Tibetans in Dharamsala today held a candle light vigil to call on Tibetan exiles to gear up for major protest demonstrations against Beijing’s hosting of the 2008 Olympic Games next month.
The candle light vigil, organized by the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC) of Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan Government-in-exile, here this evening is aimed at urging Tibetans in India, Nepal and elsewhere around the world to come together once again in large numbers in the Indian capital of New Delhi to hold massive mass demonstrations.

GENEVA — As seven years of globaltrade talks approach another climax, China is emerging as a central player — and coming under heavy criticism from the United States and others for its tactics. No one should be surprised to find the Chinese trade minister, Chen Deming, playing hardball. In 2004, Mr. Chen studied at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and he has said privately that he learned all his negotiating skills in the United States.

See : http://english.ntdtv.com/?c=145&a=4215

Kathmandu, July 28 - At least 30 Tibetan exiles were arrested at Batase area of Sindhupalchowk district near China-Nepal border this morning after they tried to cross into Tibet as part of a protest against Chinese rule.
The Tibetans, including several monks, had trekked to Batase, about a week ago. 'The Tibetans were arrested as they sheltered in the village ahead of their attempt to cross the border into Tibet,' police inspector Suraj KC said. 'We will send them back to Kathmandu later during the day,’ he added. The Tibetan exiles had started their trek from Sankhu village.

Key rights advocates and social activists across China will spend the Olympics confined to their homes under round the clock surveillance. Some have been warned off talking to the media, while others cannot be reached by phone.
Qi Zhiyong, a Beijing-based rights activist who lost a leg during the armed crackdown in the capital in 1989, said he had been ordered to leave the city for the duration of the Olympic Games.

Nel video il comandante Seyfullah afferma :
“Il Partito Islamico del Turkestan mette ancora una volta in guardia la Repubblica Popolare Cinese.
Nostro scopo è colpire i punti nevralgici dei Giochi Olimpici .Attaccheremo città della Cina centrale utilizzando tattiche mai impiegate prima .”
Vedi :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSPRpR3JBCc

Lhasa
I monasteri di Drepung e Nechung sono ancora circondati dai reparti speciali e non riesco ad avere notizie delle centinaia di monaci che mancano all’appello.
Amdo e Kham
Oggi ho avuto conferma di alcuni arresti effettuati nelle scorse settimane :
A Tewo County due tibetani sono stati arrestati per aver partecipato ad una manifestazione e scattato delle fotografie.Sembra siano accusati di “separatismo e spionaggio” e rischiano l’ergastolo.
Altri due manifestanti sono stati arrestati nel distretto di Markham per aver inscenato una protesta pacifica e lanciato slogan indipendentisti.

Il signor Yang Weihua, 35 anni, viveva nel villaggio di Yongxing, nel distretto di Hulan della città di Harbin, provincia dell’Heilongjiang. Iniziò a praticare il Falun Gong nel 1996 e la pratica gli portò molto benefici, sia fisicamente che spiritualmente. Fu arrestato e detenuto per tre volte negli ultimi nove anni. Il 3 aprile 2003, alcuni agenti della stazione di polizia di Heping lo arrestarono e lo tennero in detenzione per tre mesi nel carcere di Hulan. Poi lo condannarono a tre anni ai lavori forzati e lo portarono nel campo di lavoro forzato di Harbin.

KATHMANDU, July 25 (Reuters) -- Nepali police said on Friday they had detained 125 Tibetan refugees, including nuns and monks, for trying to storm a Chinese consular office in Kathmandu.
More than 20,000 Tibetans live in Nepal and many of the exiles have protested regularly in Kathmandu, calling for the freedom of Tibet and against the Chinese crackdown on demonstrations in the Himalayan
region in March.