[Buddha-l] Tibet uprisings: staged violence?

[Curt Steinmetz]

No one should doubt that the Chinese have used agent-provocateurs and 
every other conceivable dirty trick against Tibetans fighting for their 
freedom.

But the idea that spy satellite images can "confirm" the identity of who 
exactly started a riot down on earth is just patently ridiculous. Gordon 
Thomas is best known for his works of fiction - this appears to be one 
of them.

Curt Steinmetz

Christopher Fynn wrote:
>
> 'Beijing orchestrating Tibet riots'
>
> Canada Free Press[Friday, March 21, 2008 10:20]
> *Brit spies confirm Dalai Lama's report of staged violence*
>
> By Gordon Thomas
>
> London, March 20 - Britain’s GCHQ, the government communications agency
> that electronically monitors half the world from space, has confirmed
> the claim by the Dalai Lama that agents of the Chinese People’s
> Liberation Army, the PLA, posing as monks, triggered the riots that have
> left hundreds of Tibetans dead or injured.
>
> GCHQ analysts believe the decision was deliberately calculated by the
> Beijing leadership to provide an excuse to stamp out the simmering
> unrest in the region, which is already attracting unwelcome world
> attention in the run-up to the Olympic Games this summer.
>
> For weeks there has been growing resentment in Lhasa, Tibet’s capital,
> against minor actions taken by the Chinese authorities.
>
> Increasingly, monks have led acts of civil disobedience, demanding the
> right to perform traditional incense burning rituals. With their demands
> go cries for the return of the Dalai Lama, the 14th to hold the high
> spiritual office.
>
> Committed to teaching the tenets of his moral authority—peace and
> compassion—the Dalai Lama was 14 when the PLA invaded Tibet in 1950 and
> he was forced to flee to India from where he has run a relentless
> campaign against the harshness of Chinese rule.
>
> He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen
> Square massacre.
>
> But critics have objected to his attraction to film stars. Newspaper
> magnate Rupert Murdoch has called him: “A very political monk in Gucci
> shoes.”
>
> Discovering that his supporters inside Tibet and China would become even
> more active in the months approaching the Olympic Games this summer,
> British intelligence officers in Beijing learned the ruling regime would
> seek an excuse to move and crush the present unrest.
>
> That fear was publicly expressed by the Dalai Lama. GCHQ’s satellites,
> geo-positioned in space, were tasked to closely monitor the situation.
>
> The doughnut-shaped complex, near Cheltenham racecourse, is set in the
> pleasant Cotswolds in the west of England. Seven thousand employees
> include the best electronic experts and analysts in the world. Between
> them they speak more than 150 languages. At their disposal are 10,000
> computers, many of which have been specially built for their work.
>
> The images they downloaded from the satellites provided confirmation the
> Chinese used agent provocateurs to start riots, which gave the PLA the
> excuse to move on Lhasa to kill and wound over the past week.
>
> What the Beijing regime had not expected was how the riots would spread,
> not only across Tibet, but also to Sichuan, Quighai and Gansu provinces,
> turning a large area of western China into a battle zone.
>
> The Dalai Lama has called it “cultural genocide” and has offered to
> resign as head of the protests against Chinese rule in order to bring
> peace. The current unrest began on March 10, marking the anniversary of
> the 1959 Uprising against Chinese rule.
>
> However, his followers are not listening to his “message of compassion.”
> Many of them are young, unemployed and dispossessed and reject his
> philosophy of non-violence, believing the only hope for change is the
> radical action they are now carrying out.
>
> For Beijing, the urgent need to find a solution to the uprising is one
> of growing embarrassment. In two weeks time, the national celebrations
> for the Olympic Games start with the traditional torch relay. The torch
> bearers are scheduled to pass through Tibet. But the torch could find
> itself being carried by runners past burning buildings and temples.
>
> A sign of this urgency is that the Chinese prime minister has now said
> he is prepared to hold talks with the Dalai Lama. Just before this
> announcement, Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown declared he would
> meet the Dalai Lama, who is to visit London next month. This is the
> first time either leader has proposed to meet the Dalai Lama.
>
> /Gordon Thomas is the author of the newly published Secrets & Lies: A
> History of CIA Mind Control and Germ Warfare (Octavo Editions, USA) and
> the forthcoming Inside British Intelligence (JR Books, UK). /
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