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Tibetan poet Woeser, called "the poet who forgot to be afraid," speaks out against the Chinese government's repression of human rights in this short clip by Al Jazeera English. According to Al Jazeera, during "crackdowns" on Tibetan dissidents in March, Woeser's Internet blogs were among the few sources of information from the sealed-off region. She is now prohibited from leaving the country; Chinese officials refuse to issue her a passport. She is not allowed to leave China to accept awards for her poetry because officials claim she is a threat to national security. In a rare and daring move, Woeser is taking the government to court. "The Chinese government has not kept its promises," the poet tells Al Jazeera. "In strict terms, it has kidnapped the Olympic Games because it's using the Olympics as a big platform to demonstrate its power."
Tibetan dissident poet Woeser Tsering speaks out
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Woeser as what? Tibeten? Man, you cannot be ALWAYS kidding. It must a hard and overpaid job for China bashers to dig out among 1.3 billions such a “famous” gabbage.
With only 25% Tibeten blood while all liquid left in her vein are Han Chinese, you tell me what she really is?
Dressed in Tibeten, furnished room in Tibeten and writing about Tibet in CHINESE don't make one a Tibeten. But by countrary she is called in Lhasa by Tibeten as traitor, given her PLA father with his folk’s blood on hands. I hate to call her this way of course, while calling her “swindler” by her Beijing aquaintance is well accepted.
Meanwhile what's the sense to sue the government while she doesn't need a passport any longer since her CHINESE husband took the award for her in Oslo already, though making a fuss can sure make this surviver complex a bit more famous? But her case was well taken by Beijing court, against vivid imagination of some smarties here that she will be simply shot by “commie fire-squad” for “organ harvest”, lol!
Maybe now it’s high time for this “romantic dreamer” to go all the way across Himalaya, accompanied with either those who are denied visa to India or the wild animal smugglers who are all-season lepeod-skin supplier to Sharon Stone, the best lama actress with Hollywood monk as her best friend. What a wonderful world! LOL!