Yu Jie – Observe China
Yu Jie, born in Sichuan province, He is a writer and staunch critic of human rights violations in China.. Of 2005 a 2007, Yu served as vice-president of the PEN Independent Center. in 2012, he resides in the United States, after a year under house arrest.
He 30 May 2012, in Rangtang township, Sichuan, once again a Tibetan woman set herself on fire. This marked an increase in immolations in recent months, with the current total located in 41 (38 inside tibet, 3 out), of those, 30 They died (29 natives and 1 from outside). Among those who have died, 6 They were women, 3 nuns, 2 pastors and a student.
In the press controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, however, not even a word has been reported about this unrelenting tragedy. In fact, the majority of the Chinese public simply doesn't care and plays mahjong as if nothing is happening, sing karaoke like nothing is happening, trade stocks like nothing is happening.
For them, It is as if the suffering of their Tibetan neighbors is happening on another planet. Seeing that it is considered that the 56 China's ethnic groups together form a single national family, ¿How come the growing Tibetan death toll does not raise the slightest concern within the Han community??
This is symptomatic of a neo-Nazism growing within Chinese society.. When a society fails to maintain human life and dignity at the most basic level, implicitly paving the way for dictators to do evil and harm unscrupulously.
After the Bo Xilai case, We saw people at home and outside getting up like they were on drugs., seething for the reformist party of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao to succeed in changing China's political environment. But these people are like monkeys, easily deceived by the confused and indecisive intentions of their masters.
However, China's promise of political reform has never been kept. The oppression and censorship of the Tiananmen Era continues even today.
To see if the Communist Party officials have sincere intentions for political reform, one cannot tell by looking at whether they can stand behind the UN Declaration of Human Rights, not even if they have read the poems of Aliksander Pushkin, if not see if they value the holiness of an individual, the life of a common man. When Wen Jiabao slandered Tibetan immolation victims, saying that they were under the spell of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, he dashed all hopes for real political reform.
Hu/Wen's reformist party has now brought its deception to an end. They seduced people with the promise of hope, only to then cheat on her again, with the old forms of government. Constitutionalist Chen Yongmiao explains this as “being put in a dark room.”, Because the government is afraid of what will happen if you open a window and the sun shines through it.”. Consequently, The only light that shines in this endless dark night comes from the flames that consume the bodies of the Tibetans..
What flows in the veins of men and women is blood, not oil. If a regime brutalizes its people to such an atrocious degree, ¿Can they turn the blood on their hands into flammable gasoline?? According to Buddhist teaching, suicide is a very serious crime. For Tibetan devotees to commit an act so contrary to their beliefs, ending their lives in such an extreme and violent way, It is surely proof that their hearts are atrophied, and inside, they have already died.
This dissenting voice, even if the noble gentlemen of the Communist Party turn deaf so as not to listen, still talks. The one who must start listening, however it is the people of China. twenty three years ago, with the sound of the president's weapons slaughtering the people of Lhasa, schoolchildren and citizens were forced to give up their belief that Chinese security forces would never fire their weapons at them.
Therefore, our lives and the lives of the Tibetan people are intrinsically intertwined. E, true to the words inscribed on the wall of the New England Memorial in Boston, first written by Martin Niemöller: “In Germany, first they came for the communists, and I didn't say anything, because I was not a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't say anything, because I was not Jewish. Then they came for the unionists, but I didn't say anything, because I was not a union member. In the end they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.”.
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