Is this the time to free Tibet?

It seems like the run with Olympic torch, is going to be a gauntlet run for the Chinese government. The scenario could well see pressure building along the route, as the torch passes through the capitals of the world. This is maybe the right symbolic event in which to apply decisive pressure for real changes to Chinese politics. The most obvious case that the international society has, is the case of Tibet. Obvious because Tibet can not be claimed as a solely internal affair for China. They are evidently suppressing a non-chinese people. They have clearly occupied a foreign country, which now yearn to become free and democratic. There is an international famous and respected leader of the Tibetan movement.

The populations of all democratic countries should now call out to their leaders for action. We want our governments to boycott the Chinese rulers and their use of the Olympics as propaganda and make-up for their suppressing regime. We should demand of China that they roll back their occupation of Tibet, allow Dalai Lama and other political refugees to return, free all Tibetan political prisoners and invite the UN to govern the transitional period until a Tibetan democracy can be established. This should be our demands for participating in the Chinese Olympics. No less.


The Tibetan liberation could be an symbolic event that opens the way for the Chinese people to realize that they can also become free. That the Chinese rulers are not so all-powerful and that there is hope.

The french president has already announced that he demands that the Chinese government begins talks with the Dalai Lama and that they free political prisoners. This is a good first step, and he should be encouraged to take further steps. As reported here by Danish newspaper Politiken.

Now the torch is approaching London and its time for the Brits to step up to the plate and show their character. What do they value? Freedom in Tibet or good financial relations with China? The leader of the Liberal Democrats has called on PM Brown to abandon plans to greet the torch. That would only be the first symbolic step. As reported here in The Guardian.

Americans should ask their presidential candidates, what they think of the matter. Here is an obvious possibility of using diplomacy to help a suppressed people. The liberation would come much cheaper for USA than their current liberation of the Iragi people.

Be sure that most of our democratic governments will not be quick to take this action. They need to be pressured by us, the population. The main forum for building this pressure is obviously the net. Please join me in this effort. Link to others writing about it. Write your own comments and articles. Do what ever you can find time for to build this pressure..