When Will Enough Be Enough?

The people of Tibet ask for freedom in the form of monks and nuns. The Chinese government responds with gunfire. Whatever happened to “just say no”?

Paramilitary police opened fire on hundreds of monks, nuns and Tibetans who tried to march on a local government office in western China yesterday to demand the return of the Dalai Lama.

Residents of Luhuo said that a monk and a farmer appeared to have been killed and about a dozen people wounded in the latest violence in Tibetan areas of China. Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, said that one officer was killed when police confronted a “lawless mob” in Luhuo.

The demonstration began at 4pm when about 200 nuns from Woge nunnery and a similar number of monks from Jueri monastery marched towards the Luhuo Third District government office. They were joined by several hundred farmers and nomads, witnesses said.

If this was happening in any other country in the world, everyone (the United States, Canada, the European Union, etc) would be pulling strings at the United Nations, or working with NATO forces to bring resolution to the matter. I guess, because it’s China, we’re simply going to look the other way. Again.

Now is it time to boycott the Beijing games?

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