Re:The Xinjiang Procedure
by verroq on Saturday December 24, 2011 @07:23AM
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I'm not saying what China is currently doing in XingJiang is right, but to deny that overthrowing Dalai Lama resulted in a better standard of life for Tibet's inhabitants is lunacy.
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Trying to improve someone's standard of living by force is almost inevitably doomed to fail.
Canada tried that with its native population in the 20th century -- take children away from their backwards and uncivilized parents and raise them instead in residential schools -- and it was an utter disaster.
If anyone is as curious as I am: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sch...
Do you know anything about Tibet? Or dGe Lugs Pa? Or anything at all?
Old Tibetan system is exactly how force kids turning into monks and abey the teachings of Dalai Lama (note: not only the 14th).
What the Communist did wrong in Tibet, is not about exile Dalai Lama, but replacing the old ruling ranks without providing more options. So if anything thing went wrong, blame the Communists.
Sure, arbitrary persecution of various ethnic groups is a good standard of life.
Unlike Tibet, there are not only ethnic groups in Xinjiang, but also terrorist groups as dangerous as Al-Qaeda, e.g. East Turkestan group. They are directly linked with each other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Turkestan_Islamic_Movement