Just Like Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela, "China, Tibet and US-Sponsored Counterrevolution"

[magbana]

From the article: "China, Tibet and US-Sponsored Counterrevolution"

EXCERPT:

"Tibetan exiles and the CIA

In the late 1950s and 1960s, the CIA trained hundreds of counterrevolutionary exiles in sabotage and terrorism. This took place on bases from Saipan to Virginia, including the main center of Tibetan operations: Camp Hale, in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

U.S. intelligence documents, which were released in the late 1990s, document the close relationship between the CIA, the Tibetan exile movement and the Dalai Lama personally: "or much of the 1960s, the CIA provided the Tibetan exile movement with $1.7 million a year for operations against China, including an annual subsidy of $180,000 for the Dalai Lama." (12)

Imperialist support for the Tibetan "independence" movement is reminiscent of their support for Cuban counterrevolutionary forces that fled to exile in Miami after the island’s 1959 liberation from U.S. neo-colonial rule.

Soon after Fulgencio Batista’s overthrow, the CIA trained several thousand Cuban reactionaries in bombings, assassination and other terror tactics in the name of "freedom" and "democracy." The terrorist project, codenamed JM WAVE, became the largest operation in the CIA’s history.

Cuban extremist exiles in Miami claim to speak for Cubans who live in Cuba as they work to destroy the social gains that the vast majority of Cubans support. Similarly, the Tibetan reactionary opposition exiled in Dharamsala fights to overturn the social gains of Tibetans living in Tibet.

This time, the U.S. imperialists would dominate Tibet instead of the British. China has made it clear that it will defend its territorial integrity.

Tibetan right-wing groups could not exist without U.S. and European financing or the support of organizations such as Reporters Without Borders and Human Rights Watch. Actor Richard Gere, chair of the International Campaign for Tibet, has given a high profile to the issue."

Full Article:

http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8845&news_iv_ctrl=1261

[Mika]

1. Kick.

Thanks for posting this.

If you had dared post this in a more popular DU forum, I suspect you would have been flamed 100 times over for such an anti US imperialism post.

:thumbsup:


On edit: Some of the stats on Tibet almost mirror the stats on Cuba pre and then post revolution.

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[magbana]

2. I had considered putting it on regular DU discussion . . .

but I was worried my computer would burst into flames. Very interesting about similarity of pre- and post- revolution stats with Cuba.