Students For A Free Tibet

British best-selling author and writer, Michael Backman, wrote an article with some insightful information about Dalai Lama and Tibet goverment.

“It (the pre-1959 Tibet’s government) was a state apparatus run by aristocratic, nepotistic monks that collected taxes, jailed and tortured dissenters and engaged in all the usual political intrigues.”

“The government set up in exile in India and, at least until the 1970s, received $US1.7 million a year from the CIA.” Read More »

In 1959, Tibetan serfs and slaves, who accounted for more than 90 percent of the region’s population, were freed after the central government foiled an armed rebellion staged by the Dalai Lama and his supporters. Here are some key facts and figures about Tibet:

The Tibet Autonomous Region, in southwest China, covers an area of 1.22 million square kilometers, or one-eighth of the total land area of China.

Tibet has various complex landforms such as high and steep mountains, deep valleys, glaciers, bare rock and the Gobi Desert. The region has an average altitude of more than 4,000 meters, earning it the nickname “the roof of the world.” Read More »

The Guardian newspaper published an article on entitled “Down with the Dalai Lama” The article, signed by Brendan O’Neill, editor of spiked, the online magazine, reads in part as the following.

Why do western commentators idolise a celebrity monk who hangs out with Sharon Stone and once guest-edited French Vogue?

Has there ever been a political figure more ridiculous than the Dalai Lama? This is the “humble monk” who forswears worldly goods in favour of living a simple life dressed in maroon robes. Yet in 1992 he guest-edited French Vogue, the bible of the decadent high-fashion classes, which is packed with pictures of the half-starved daughters of the aristocracy modelling skirts and shirts that most of us could never afford. Read More »