Shanghaiist: How Tibetan serfs were liberated, according to the CCP

BBC1

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:40:16 +0800

The Dalai Lama was one of the biggest slave owners. Shame on him!

howardtaft

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:45:54 +0800

i can imagine some poor peasants crowded around a tv thinking that the serf's lives do not sound all that different from life during the 50's-late 70's. And still to this day, tilling land that they can not sell, and all but traded by local officials, when at a whim, they are told to move elsewhere as there land has been given to someone else. Oh, and being shot in a yard without a real trial... Sure there have been some positive changes, but i don't believe the government should pat itself on the back for liberating anyone. Any country with that level of corruption and censorship can't claim to do any liberating.

taihanasie

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:50:23 +0800

Hmm. Can't respond to a point without invoking the US huh? Typical.

eastman

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:09:10 +0800

nanheyangrouchuan boy, as to if serfs under their religious leaders are still serfs under the CCP, i would be a fool, though i missed your beautiful azz a lot, to argue with you who just said farewell in tear to his beloved FORMER leader who would be more rememebered than ccp. if obama wanted to be rememberd as well as bush and be voted a second time by smart and great americans who like to quote freedom and demoncrazy as every performers and speakers did yesterday, to go liberate tibeten serfs would not be a bad idea. maybe bin ladin with wmd is hiding there among serfs. anyway, you paper tiger need a war every few years to be scared and bugged and to rally behind your boss and to consume 10%gdp and to feed your brave servemen and lockheed martin, with an empty wallet.

nanheyangrouchuan

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:58:33 +0800

So they went from being serfs under their religious leaders to serfs under the CCP. If you call that progress...

eastman

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:33:27 +0800

---"what the Chinese government says was a system of feudal oppression 50 years ago"? i realy wish that ccp were as a liar as Dalai and that tibet were a shangri-la where serfs ruled over lamas and aristocrats instead. i guess mr. parenti has same wish: http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html