I strongly believe Tibet will become more and more wealthy and prosperity
with the help of Chinese government, the railway will not only link
Tibet and inner part of China, but will also extend to Indian subcontinent,
south Asia and mid-east, then Tibet will become one of the traffic center
in China, more and more Tibetan people will abandon their traditional life
and seeking a new life.
and then, I'd like to see some hypocritical Americans despair to death.
that will be interesting.

There are two sides to every coin. Our world is fragmenting, wanting to break into ever smaller chunks. It's been going on in Europe for a while, in Africa, and around the globe. Each group wants to run itself as a country apart from any other. But the established nations want to hold on to what they have.

Any group can look into it's history and find reasons/excuses for autonomy. Tibet is just another in a long line. And whether you support Tibet or not depends on an emotional response to your view of history.

I think it's a sign of man wanting total freedom, as ever smaller groups appear wanting to have their own government, eventually it will boil down to each person wanting themselves to make decisions about everything they do. Maybe the idea of traditional governments is what is being fought against on the whole planet.

And even one death is a massacre if you're the one doing the dying.

CBC news has reported the number of dead at 70 so far. I'll see if I can find a verifyable link.

Originally posted by masqua
Ah... here's the source. Not very reliable, but then what is coming out of Tibet or China?

Theres actually a lot of things coming out. The problem with this is they post them in other language forums because most of the Chinese/Tibetan people don't know English which gives the impression that little information is coming out because of the lack of it in english.

CCTV has shown a lot of real pictures and as demonstrated before Tibetans can as well. Maybe people are just expecting a lot of deaths and taking lack of information as censorship