July 25, 2010

TWEETING DALAI LAMA, CHINESE MINISTER AND UNRULY KATHMANDU

Posted by The Himalayan Voice:
[In Nepal, the onetime peaceful land on the earth, gun culture appears to be on alarming rise as police find increase in small arms coming into Nepal also from Lhasa, across its northern border. Murders, abductions and extortions under the barrel of guns have become day-to-day affairs in Nepal. The country is badly plagued with Indian gun culture which the Maoists have ‘successfully popularized’ to overhaul the Nepalese socio-political system, uprooting the 240 year old monarchy, in favour  of the country’s proletariats, also known as one of the peoples in  the world who lack the most urgent necessities. ]
By  B. K. Rana
Failing to form a government nearly in a month, after the caretaker prime minister  tendered  his resignation on July 1, Nepalese leaders  seem to be carrying enormous pressure again from New Delhi to try one more time to form a ‘consensus government’ that would be able to promulgate the ‘ constitution of new Nepal’  on time  and complete the much hyped ‘peace process’  which seems ‘on-going’  for all times not coming to the end ever. In the mean time further, those leaders and officials are to receive yet another ‘good counsel’ from China on matters what it describes as ‘the anti-China activities by the Tibetan exiles in Nepal, particularly those whom it suspects, to be working for Radio Free Asia’  as Mr. Chen Zhimin, the Chinese Vice-Minister for Public Security, lands in Kathmandu  for talks tomorrow, July 26.
Since the establishment of  diplomatic relation in 1955, Nepal and China ‘never threat each other, harm each other or doubt each other; but always respect each other, believe each other and help each other’ – it is what has remained the fact on the ground. 
Nepal is a sincere and trustworthy friend of China. Therefore, Nepal can’t allow anyone doing anything that might annoy  China.  It is believed that some 3000 Tibetan arrive Nepal each year risking their lives across the great Himalayas. Few of them face deportation on a regular basis. Recently,  Nepalese police are reported arresting two Tibetans from Nepal’s Humla district and handing them over to Chinese border guards which, Free-Tibet activists,  term as a breach of the ‘so called "gentleman's agreement" with the United Nations Refugee Agency in Nepal’. Another estimate is that more than 20, 000 Tibetans have taken refuge in Nepal.
In Nepal, the onetime peaceful land on the earth, gun culture appears to be on alarming rise as police find  increase in small arms coming into Nepal also from Lhasa , across its northern border. Murders, abductions and extortions under the barrel of guns have become day-to-day affairs in Nepal. The country is badly plagued with Indian gun culture which the Maoists have ‘successfully popularized’ to overhaul the Nepalese socio-political system, uprooting the 240 year old monarchy, in favour of the country’s proletariats,   also known as one of the peoples in  the world who lack the most urgent necessities.  
Additionally,  the Dalai Lama has begun to tweet  in order to reach out millions of  Chinese citizens and to defend his cause.  The Dalai Lama, in answer to some tweet-questions told, he hopes to ‘build a big family that enables Chinese and Tibetans to co-exist in a friendly fashion over 1000 years as before' and  'he wants to see all ethnic groups in China coexist amicably with each other on the principal of equality'.

The Dalai Lama says,  'Tibetans are not against China'.  In the video below he further says, 'We are not anti-Chinese. We really respect them. We really admire their civilization, their rich cultural heritage and after all through  centuries they are our neighbour and future  also we have to live side by side. So it is very very important to develop spiritual friendship" with China.

'The Chinese government has sent ‘Han Chinese workers, investors, merchants, teachers and soldiers  into remote Tibet.  After the violence that ravaged this region in 2008, China’s aim is to make Tibet wealthier — and more Chinese. Chinese leaders see development, along with an enhanced security presence, as the key to pacifying the Buddhist region. The central government invested $3 billion in the Tibet Autonomous Region last year, a 31 percent increase over 2008. Tibet’s gross domestic product is growing at a 12 percent annual rate, faster than the robust Chinese national average.'
'Simple restaurants located in white prefabricated houses and run by ethnic Han businesspeople who take the train have sprung up even at a remote lake north of Lhasa. About 1.2 million rural Tibetans, nearly 40 percent of the region’s population, have been moved into new residences under a “comfortable housing” program. And officials promise to increase tourism fourfold by 2020, to 20 million visitors a year.'
'But if the influx of money and people has brought new prosperity, it has also deepened the resentment among many Tibetans. Migrant Han entrepreneurs elbow out Tibetan rivals, then return home for the winter after reaping profits. Large Han-owned companies dominate the main industries, from mining to construction to tourism.' reports The New York Times.
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