This is an eyewitness account of a foreign resident in Lhasa who took refuge in a hotel close to the centre of the Tibetan capital yesterday. The city was gripped by violence after protesters and police clashed

"Oh my God. Oh no. That's crazy. One hundred people are trying to stone one man. A man was trying to cross the street with his motorcycle - they were trying to stone him but it's so crowded I can't see whether they got him or not.

"We came out for a walk about at about five today. I knew something was happening because there were a lot of people on the street. We were on Sera Street, which goes to the [Klukang] monastery. It sounds like the noise came from there; it sounds like at first they had been fighting in the temple.

"We saw people running and people in this hotel told us to get in quickly as the crowd was coming. They seem OK here, maybe the owner is Tibetan. All the other hotels have smashed windows.

I forget that something written down does not always sound as it was intended. My last remark was meant to make you laugh!

The first class I've had at a well-known American news agency was that we report facts, and not opinions. That the first thing you should do after you get some news is confirmation. confirm, always. But in the recent bombast of western media and the "poisoned dumpling" and China's toys issues, we have seen nothing but opinion from the western media. And biased opinions, too.

When they are busy quoting Dalai Lama, they just choose to ignore the voice of 1.3 billions of Chinese people, as if we do not exist.

http://www.anti-cnn.com/

The following are some of the mistakes made by western media in reporting according to anti-cnn.com.

1. Cutting part of the pictures as the whole picture.

2. Making use of photos which are not taken in Tibet, not even in China

3. Lies

4. Calling Tibet a country.

Such collective effort to link politics with the Olympics, and at a well-chosen time, I cannot but feel very sorry for some of the media which have forgot or chosen to ignore basic disciplines in the profession.


A more objective account of the violence that broke out in Lhasa on March. 14.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/15/tibet.china2

This year the bank system of china will collapse, 100's of millions who have left their family farm land for the city life will return to the country. all your country needs is a draught (has) , unemployment, (soon) and political unrest and their will be a peoples revolution, just like the last one 60 years ago, and for the same reasons, greed and corruption.

In that case i suggest that you should just leave, period.

I work in China as your country does not provide medical care to your people. I work in your country because your government is sending rockets into space and your corrupt greedy doctors will not do their job if they do not get a red envelope for several times their monthly pay. Even though you can get a ilver transplant, heart transplant, kidney transplant, hours away in cities of a million you cannot get the most rudimentary medical care or routine consumable supplies.

I worked in Hunan during the recent snow storm. All your national TV did not show the sh*t hole dirty hospitals and stacks of people piled in the snow frozen to death. It did not show the coal buring stoves in the hospital heating water to thaw frozen extremities. It did not show the hospital toilets heaped with sh*t and the washrooms with no sinks, soap or water. It did not show the hospital emplyees all chatting on QQ while thousands suffered wating for care.

however, I am sure you have seen the great patriotic stage productions in the last month showing the heroic military shovelling the snow and fixing everything.

China is communist, perhaps you should read the "Marxist Manifesto" which details how all men are to get a fair and opportune share of a countries wealth.


Almost all HIV/AIDS programs in your country are funded my first world nations.

Almost all TB treatment programs are funded by first world nations.

You have the highest rates of gastric and gynecologic cancers in the world and not one study has been done by your country to determine why.

I routinely do skin grafts on patients who have been intentionally burnt with boiling oil by your government and police.

40% of your ground water is seriously contaminated with pesticides which are sold unregulated

You executed your minister of food and drug safety to impress the world that your country is serious about the quality of food and drug exports. The world was not impressed.

China simply has no idea how to behave under the scrutiny of the entire world.
China's biggest problem is its inability to be honest with its populace.

I have never worked in a country in which i have sense such a massive nightmare coming.
thankfully, when the time comes, i have an option to leave

Where ever you are from Mr. Mad Doctor, I'm sure your country has done no wrong...

If China has the highest rate of gastric and colon cancer in the world yet the government has never done a study on it then how are you getting your facts..?
You've been to a lot of countries and haven't been in China for very long which means you can't speak the language which means, like everything else you've read, you're being spoon fed...

Do I doubt the sh*t that you see...? No. This is a big country that has made more progress in thirty years than any other country in history. Sure, they've trampled on the environment and human rights to get there and that can be upsetting, as it is in other countries as well...

...and, if the Chinese government is pouring boiling oil on innocent victims, then I'm sure the last thing they are going to do is let them free to roam a public hospital. You not

speaking Chinese probably were told this as fact.

Anyways, like Opal, I can't even feel but a fraction of what you're talking about...
I think the nightmare is coming tomorrow... Nice time to leave, yeah?