What Is Really Behind
The Furore Over Tibet?
By Sharat G. Lin
15 April, 2008
Countercurrents.org
Riots in Tibetan cities and the Olympic torch relay have generated an
immense global furore over China's alleged human rights record in Tibet. The
impression is given that China is using its police and army to violently
enforce a brutal occupation on peaceful Tibetan aspirations for independence
. No doubt there will be some human rights abuses whenever riot police and
troops are brought out in force