Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Sun, 03/23/2008 - 03:04.
A group of 29 Chinese dissidents urged Beijing to open dialogue with the Dalai Lama in a March 22 open letter. "We appeal to the country's leaders to directly engage in dialogue with the Dalai Lama," the group said in a letter e-mailed to reporters. "We hope to eliminate misunderstanding between Han and Tibetans." The pro-democracy activists, led by writer Wang Lixiong and dissident Liu Xiaobo, also urged the government to invite UN investigators to Tibet, and allow journalists into the region. It said those arrested should be given an open and fair trial, and called upon the government to produce evidence to substantiate accusations that the Dalai Lama premeditated the unrest. It accused the government's invective against the Dalai Lama of inflaming "ethnic hatred," and being part of a generally "failed" policy on ethnic minorities within China's borders. (Reuters, March 22)
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
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Chinese dissidents call for dialogue with Dalai Lama
A group of 29 Chinese dissidents urged Beijing to open dialogue with the Dalai Lama in a March 22 open letter. "We appeal to the country's leaders to directly engage in dialogue with the Dalai Lama," the group said in a letter e-mailed to reporters. "We hope to eliminate misunderstanding between Han and Tibetans." The pro-democracy activists, led by writer Wang Lixiong and dissident Liu Xiaobo, also urged the government to invite UN investigators to Tibet, and allow journalists into the region. It said those arrested should be given an open and fair trial, and called upon the government to produce evidence to substantiate accusations that the Dalai Lama premeditated the unrest. It accused the government's invective against the Dalai Lama of inflaming "ethnic hatred," and being part of a generally "failed" policy on ethnic minorities within China's borders. (Reuters, March 22)