Articles

❯

Tibet and the Dalai Lama

All eyes are on Beijing as it hosts the 2008 Olympic Games. Since winning the Olympic bid in 2001, Beijing has come under intense scrutiny for failing to deliver on its Olympic-sized promises of improving human rights conditions in China, especially in the autonomous region of Tibet. This past March, historic tensions between Tibet and China exploded into the largest pro-independence protest against China in twenty years. Five-hundred Tibetan monks staged a peaceful protest against Chinese rule, and China immediately cracked down, shutting out all media and dispatching armed police who quashed the protests with gunfire and tear gas....