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Tibet Tops This Week's Protesting Schedule

By Alison Go

April 11, 2008 RSS Feed Print

This week, students demonstrated against sweatshops, sex trafficking, the Iraq war, and meal plan rollover. But, most of all, students across the nation have caught the "Free Tibet" bug—holding rallies and vigils to protest human-rights abuses in Tibet. At East Carolina University, the religious studies department held a teach-in, while the Amnesty International chapter at the University of Southern Mississippi led a candlelight vigil Tuesday. In New York, Columbia and New York University students flooded Union Square to join a larger mob of protesters. And at Duke University, a quiet vigil turned into a large pro-Tibet march, which then spawned an equally large pro-China counterprotest—a tumult filled with anthems, chants, flags, high-minded rhetoric, and lots and lots of wasted paper (aka fliers).

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do you reallly konow the history and the tense situation in tibet ,have you bee to tibet and have some talk with tibetans ..as i know most chisnese been to tibet can not speak tibetan,and haow they know the real felling of tibetan ~~

so i want tell you that just close you mouth because you are not a tibetan ~~I WANT TO TELL YOU IAM A TIBETAN IN TIBET。

告诉你我是个西藏人~~~~~

TSERING of WY 2:40AM March 12, 2009

A lot of the world's most know problems have been solved from surrounding countries. If people that weren't Jewish or a part of another abused group hadn't stepped in, nothing would have been resolved. The "It's not in my backyard so it doesn't matter" pholosophy is ridiculous. If it didn't matter, then why is there a UN? Why are there so many groups that gain support to help fight the delimas in other areas/countries? The comment that XXX had made are immature and naive. It angers me. Especially when I look at situation after sistuation- Tibet, Darfur and so many other places. I can't fanthom the thought that some people are actually so heartless that they would turn their head after seeing what's going on in these places.

Holly of FL 1:36PM April 25, 2008

I am a chinese student. And my father works at Tibet for helping the people there. I clearly know things happened in Tibet. In the past ,people in Tibet even did not have enough food .But now ,their life changed, they are not the slaves of Dalai Lhama but the freeman in China. Volunteers like my father contributed their time and energy to get rid of poverty in Tibet . Even the weather and geography conditions are very bad there ,my father has been there for 21 years and my family can only get together for once or twice a year .But now ,you do not see these chinese endeavor for Tibet and the truth of 3.14 . You should be told that all the decedents at 3.14 are not Tibetan but some innocent people of the Han nationality are killed by believers of Dalai Lhama .I am sad for the innocent decedents and your blindness,especially !!!

Jianqing Hao 1:50PM April 18, 2008

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