[This post has been updated as of 7:30 p.m. EST on 3.27.09.]
Here are today’s Tibet-related headlines:
Reuters reports on the launch Saturday of the annual “Serf Emancipation Day” public holiday in Tibet. “China’s Communist leaders say they abolished a feudal, theocratic system that would have been familiar to the peasants of mediaeval Europe,” they write. “But critics say China has exaggerated the cruelty of traditional Tibetan life to disguise a power grab, swept away much that was good along with the bad, and destroyed an indigenous government that was attempting more sensitive reforms.”
The Agence France-Presse profiles the illegitimate Panchen Lama appointed by the Chinese government in an attempt to control the Tibetan populace. The actual Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, was recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1995 and “immediately disappeared from public view and is believed to have been under a form of house arrest ever since.”
The New York Times reports that “The China Daily, the official English-language newspaper of China, published two editorials on Thursday denouncing the Dalai Lama and saying that ‘any attempt to split Tibet is doomed.’”
USA Today cuts through the BS and offers a stong editorial about “Serf Liberation Day.” They end saying:
The Chinese can physically crush Tibetan protests this weekend. They will have more trouble imposing their Big Brother narrative.
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