PHOTO: Tibetan exiles hold candlelight vigil in Kolkata, March 2012, by Jamphel Yeshi, who blew himself up in New Delhi due to Hu Jintao's visit. (Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images)
When Chinese Premier Hu Jintao flew to New Delhi on 28 March 2012, for the BRIC convention, fell into unknown terrain: A democracy with a free press where a Tibetan refugee from 27 years, Jamphel Yeshi, went into a public protest, He poured kerosene over his body and set himself on fire while shouting for an end to Chinese atrocities in Tibet..
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The burning images of India with Jamphel Yeshi burning, They exposed to the world the cost of the terror imposed by China on Tibet, which has been kept hidden for the last few 61 years.
From the 16 March 2011, 121 people inside Tibet and six outside the country, have set themselves on fire in public in defiance of the Chinese communist assault on the Buddhist Faith, but there are no journalists or diplomats to testify to the massacre, only videos that are uploaded to internet.
There is another powerful source for the explosion of Tibetan indignation, which receives negligible international coverage: The secret history of the kidnapping and plundering of Tibet's ancestral waters and lands.
The burning images of India with Jamphel Yeshi burning, They exposed to the world the cost of the terror imposed by China on Tibet
In Asian folklore, Tibet is known as “The Western Treasure House.”. Its inhabitants have been careful stewards of this generous land for millennia. The blessing of Tibet, its remote plateau, is now your headache: China controls the “third pole”” with an iron fist and there is no one to stop it.
Elementary facts about Tibet are not widely known, since no map of the Tibetan Plateau reveals the enormous resources and strategic advantage achieved by its capture.
Tibet is a unique geomorphic entity; their 46 thousand glaciers comprise the third mass of ice on the planet. This “third pole”, It is full of crystalline riches of fauna, minerals, wood and especially water, which is a vital component of the planet's ecosystem.
Tibet is the source of the Yangtze River, Yellow, Indus, Brahmaputra, Chenab, Sutleb, Salween and the Mekong River flowing through 11 nations feeding three billion people from Peshawar to Beijing. Hoy, one of the largest rivers in Asia- the ganges, which rises from the Tibetan plateau but fortunately just outside the Chinese border, It is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
In Asian folklore, Tibet is known as “The Western Treasure House.”. Its inhabitants have been careful stewards of this generous land for millennia.
In it 2000, China launched a vast development project titled Xi bu dai fa, the opening and development of the western region (from Xinjiang and Tibet, who together comprise half of China's land area). A massive influx of Chinese, Urbanization and forced relocation of local nomads occurred rapidly.
Xizang Railway, which opened in 2006, transports vast reserves of minerals, stone and timber to mainland China and brings countless Chinese engineers and workers, who have built at least 160 dams across Tibet and have plans for hundreds more.
Chinese engineers now operate multiple dams and mines across Tibet, polluting river sources, you can see all this with the Google Earth application. Chinese government dismisses concerns of its own scientists and neighboring states alarmed by sudden decline in water levels and fisheries.
In the 90's, China refused to sign the United Nations treaty on transboundary rivers and increased militarization of the Tibetan plateau, while denying journalists and international observers access to the troubled region.
Author Michael Buckey, who captured rare images of dam construction in his film “Thaw in Tibet”, noticed: “China doesn't have to listen to anyone about this.”. China has Tibet, So China has all the cards.”. (To access the videos and files of Mr.. Buckley can be visited www.meltdowntibet.com).
When recently asked about the crisis in Tibet, the official Chinese press mentioned: “The Dalai Lama reminds us of the uncontrolled and cruel Nazis during the Second World War….How similar is it to the holocaust committed by Hitler against the Jews?!
Many diplomats and journalists are baffled by China's obsession with demonizing the Dalai Lama., the distinguished and laureate recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, however, the stanlinoid hysteria of the politburo works. All rational discussion of Chinese exploitation of Tibet's resources is silenced, and diverts attention away from how Chinese mines and dams have created a threat of environmental catastrophe on the most populous continent on the planet..
The preservation and care of Tibet's glaciers and the rivers they support is one of the great challenges facing humanity in the 21st century.. In the 11 countries through which the waters of Tibet flow, Population and industrial development are projected to double in the coming years. 50 years.
The combined effect of rapid development, Desertification and water scarcity have already created extreme cycles of droughts and floods, food shortages and pandemics. Mainland China is in danger, so much so that in April 2011, the Yangtze River flowed at its lowest level.
Despite irrefutable evidence of the danger of overexploiting Tibet's water resources, The Chinese regime will not modify or reduce its plans for dams, tunnels, railways and highways across the Tibetan plateau.
Since leader Mao invaded Tibet in 1951, China has deployed a giant military infrastructure throughout the Tibetan plateau, which gives China a continuous border with Thailand, Myanmar, Butane, India, Nepal and Pakistan. The border areas are now filled with military air bases and battalions. In the coming era of “water wars”, China has a firm hand on Asia's water pillar.
China insists that Tibet is an “internal state matter”, and for decades, The world has turned its back in uncomfortable silence as the massacre of a defenseless civilian population, continues without anyone to oppose it and without punishment. The Chinese Communist Party has controlled 61 years the narrative, but ignoring Tibet means dismissing how the Chinese occupation intensifies environmental instability, economic and military in Asia and throughout the world.
This one, a Tibetan journalist based in Delhi, dice: “For years, We have protested the desecration of our culture, the domination of our rivers and the mining in our sacred mountains, but China doesn't listen: they shot us, They tortured us and there is no one to stop them. Ahora la gente dentro del Tíbet está determinada a encender sus cuerpos para hacerle entender al mundo lo que China está haciendo en el Tíbet y así el mundo despierte antes de que sea demasiado tarde".
* Maura Moynihan is a journalist and researcher who has worked for many years with Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal.. His work in fiction includes “Yoga Hotel” and “Kaliyuga”.This article was first published by Rangzen Alliance (rangzen.net)
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