Tibetan Liberation To Be Joyously Commemorated
The liberated peoples of Tibet are set to celebrate the Emancipation of the Serfs 50 years ago, when the People’s Liberation Army of China, of which Tibet is a historic province, ran out the feudal monks, including that jackal* the Dalai Lama. Xinhua:
LHASA, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) –Tibetan legislators proposed Friday to establish a Serfs Emancipation Day that will be remembered on March 28 every year to commemorate the emancipation of millions of serfs in the region 50 years ago.
The motion for this submitted to the second annual session of the ninth regional People’s Congress, the regional legislature, will be reviewed by about 400 lawmakers.
Tubdain Cewang, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Regional People’s Congress, explained the bill to the session on Friday morning.
The bill, which will be reviewed on Saturday, is expected to be endorsed at the end of the session, which runs from Jan. 14 to 19.
The serfs and slaves were freed 50 years ago after the central government foiled an armed rebellion staged by the Dalai Lama and his supporters with assistance from some Western powers.
Tibet became part of China in the 13th century under the governance of Yuan Dynasty. In 1951, after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong’s troops marched into Tibet after the signing of a peaceful liberation agreement between the central government and Tibetan local government.
In 1955, China set up a preparatory committee for the establishment of Tibet Autonomous Region, while many local people were proposing the reform of the thousand-year-old serfs system in Tibet. However, on August 18, 1956, Mao Zedong wrote a letter to the 14th Dalai Lama, saying that it was not the right time for Tibet to undertake a reform program.
In another message to the religious leader, Mao said it was left to the Dalai Lama to decide whether or not to start the reform process after the six years had elapsed.
However, the Dalai Lama and some serf owners still launched the armed rebellion, which was widely believed by Chinese historians not to postpone the reform, but to continue forever the feudal serf system.
Either that or they weren’t sufficiently advanced in their thinking to recognize the benefits of liberation under the guidance of Chinese Marxists. Apparently there are concerns that angry foreign reactionaries might foment uncivil unrest on the joyous occasion this year. AP quotes a counter-revolutionary feudalist provocateur:
“There is a lot of anger in Tibetans against the Chinese oppressive rule and cooking up another anniversary is the result of the nervousness of the Chinese communist government,” said Sonam Norbu Dagpo, international relations secretary for the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharmsala, India.
“Tibetans will be forced to participate in a commemoration (when) in fact the Tibetans became slaves of the Chinese and were not emancipated in 1959,” Dagpo said.
The anger is due to a lack of understanding. A Chinese historian explains:
“The Dalai Lama has been trying to embellish the old feudalistic serfdom which was actually even worse than the Middle Ages in Europe,” said Zhou Yuan, head of the history department at the Chinese Center for Tibetan Studies in Beijing.
“The younger generation might have been influenced by both the Dalai Lama and some Western propaganda, so (marking) this date will help them understand that period of time,” he said.
* LA Times, April 18, 2008, Tibetan official calls the Dalai Lama a “jackal clad in Buddhist monk’s robes and an evil spirit with a human face and the heart of a beast.”
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:12 pm on Friday, January 16, 2009
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January 17th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Commie rhetoric. I think most people have heard too much of it over the past century to believe it any more (well, except for the useful idiots, of course).
January 18th, 2009 at 2:04 am
If they lose Tibet they lose one third of their territory. It won’t happen. That’s the reason they shot those nuns and monks that were trying to escape. They don’t want external freedom committees being started.