Re: Sorry, Micky Wong, you are quite wrong. Re: People Around the World are "Spamming the CCP" -- Acording to cohorts of the evil CCP

On 30 Apr 2006 08:11:22 -0700, "ltlee1" <ltlee1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Most disturbing of all was the fact that of the nearly 1.1 million
deaths listed, only 23,364 were female. This would have meant that
1.07 million victims were male, which was clearly impossible, given
that there were only around 1.25 million Tibetan men in 1950.


These excerpts are from a very interesting WIKIPEDIA entry on Tibet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet
History:
1. Tibet was a strong empire between the 7th and 10th centuries.
Christianity is known to have been present in Tibet prior to 782. The
distinctive form of Tibetan society, in which land was divided into
three different types of holding—estates of noble families, freeheld
lands and estates held by monasteries of particular Tibetan Buddhists
sects arose after the weakening of the Tibetan kings in the 10th
century. This form of society was to continue into the 1950s, at which
time more than 700,000 of the country's population of 1.25 million
were serfs.

2. Any attempt at land reform or the redistribution of wealth would
have proved unpopular with the established landowners. This agreement
was initially put into effect in Tibet proper. However, Eastern Kham
and Amdo were outside the administration of the government of Tibet,
and were thus treated like any other Chinese province with land reform
implemented in full. As a result, a rebellion broke out in Amdo and
eastern Kham in June of 1956. The rebellion, supported by the American
CIA, eventually spread to Lhasa. It was crushed by 1959. Tibetan
exiles claim that during this campaign, tens of thousands of Tibetans
were killed. The 14th Dalai Lama and other government principals fled
to exile in India, but isolated resistance continued in Tibet until
1969 when CIA support was withdrawn.

3. Since 1979, there has been economic reform, but no political
reform, like the rest of the PRC. Some PRC policies in Tibet have been
described as moderate, while others are judged to be more oppressive.
Most religious freedoms have been officially restored, provided the
lamas do not challenge PRC rule. Foreigners can visit most parts of
Tibet, and it is claimed that the less savoury aspects of PRC rule are
kept hidden from visitors.

4. Tibetan exiles generally say that the number that have died in the
Great Leap Forward, of violence, or other unnatural causes since 1950
is approximately 1.2 million, which the Chinese Communist Party
denies. According to Patrick French, a supporter of the Tibetan cause
who was able to view the data and calculations, the estimate is not
reliable because the Tibetans were not able to process the data well
enough to produce a credible total. There were, however, many
casualties, perhaps as many as 400,000. This figure is extrapolated
from a calculation Warren W. Smith made from census reports of Tibet
which show 200,000 "missing" from Tibet. Even The Black Book of
Communism expresses doubt at the 1.2 million figure, but does note
that according to Chinese census the total population of ethnic
Tibetans in the PRC was 2.8 million in 1953, but only 2.5 million in
1964. It puts forward a figure of 800,000 deaths and alleges that as
many as 10% of Tibetans were interned, with few survivors. Chinese
demographers have estimated that 90,000 of the 300,000 "missing"
Tibetans fled the region.

5. The government of the PRC says that the population of Tibet in
1737 was about 8 million, and that due to the backward rule of the
local theocracy, there was rapid decrease in the next two hundred
years and the population in 1959 was only about 1.19 million. Today,
the population of Greater Tibet is 7.3 million, of which 5 million is
ethnic Tibetan, according to the 2000 census. The increase is viewed
as the result of the abolishment of the theocracy and introduction of
a modern, higher standard of living. Based on the census numbers, the
PRC also rejects claims that the Tibetans are being swamped by Han
Chinese; instead the PRC says that the border for Greater Tibet drawn
by the government of Tibet in Exile is so large that it incorporates
regions such as Xining that are not traditionally Tibetan in the first
place, hence exaggerating the number of non-Tibetans.




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