"They're shooting our people like dogs"

[girl gone mad]

I implore each and every person on DU to stop and think about what you are doing. If you think you can live without that Chinese made product from Wal-Mart, please try. If you can avoid watching the Olympics or purchasing items from IOC sponsors, please do.


The Chinese military is shooting Tibetan demonstrators "like dogs," a Tibetan exile group said Monday, firing "indiscriminately" intro groups of people protesting Chinese rule.

The accusation was leveled by the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy, a group run by exiled Tibetans in Dharamsala, India, home to the Dalai Lama. Exile groups in India receive some of the few reports from inside Tibet and have provided some of the only reporting from there since last Monday, when the most significant Tibetan protests in 20 years began.

"People have been saying they're shooting our people like dogs," Tenzin Norgay, the spokesman for the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy, told ABC News, citing his sources inside Tibet. He spoke just a few hours after a deadline set by the Chinese government expired for the protestors to stop or face a crackdown. The protests, he says, continued, and so did the retaliation.

"From reports we have been able to gather, the military forces, they do not tolerate anything more than a few minutes and then immediately they begin shooting or beating. And if the crowd goes out of control they shoot indiscriminately," Norgay said.

News Blackout

He said his group had confirmed that 55 protestors had been shot to death in the last few days. The Tibetan government in exile, which is seated in Dharamsala, maintains that it has confirmed at least 80 deaths in the capital of Lhasa alone during one week of protests.

If the Chinese military is in fact shooting into crowds, the accusation is impossible to prove. The Chinese government has kicked all journalists out of the region and exiled groups' sources are anonymous and refuse to speak directly to the media for fear of their safety.



http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=4468783&page=1

[samplegirl]

1. Not a problem for me

I don't shop at walmart.

[tachyon]

4. It's not just WalMart. (Yeah, they're the worst...but far from the only ones

selling Chinese stuff)

[girl gone mad]

5. You're right.

I hope people will start asking where some of the items they purchase are manufactured. One problem is that even some things "made in America" are really only assembled in America, while most of the parts are manufactured in China. Also, a lot of packaging is manufactured in China.

In theory it should be easy to stop buying Chinese, but I do understand that it's very difficult in practice.

[tachyon]

6. I don't really have a knee-jerk aversion to all things Chinese, really...

I've tried to explain for several decades how no country is self-sufficient, really --- even back in the 1970s when
{scary voice} Russia!!! was our cold war 'enemy' we were dependent on them for many raw materials, particularly chromium, vanadium and a few other rare metals...the marketplace then, as mostly always, operated without much interference from (or was surreptitiously assisted by) governments. Not much in that regard has changed, really.

[femrap]

7. But I bet you buy products

made in China...I haven't since '89 except for certain product like lighters which are ONLY made in China.

Check where things are made before you buy....! Thanks.

[cui bono]

2. k & r

[RC]

3. Who's training the Chinese army? Blackwater?

I'll bet bu$h is all hot and bothered over this.