01/13/2007 | A Tibetan girl tied a black ribbon on her right arm

Nangpala Shooting: was just An Icon on Freedom of Speech in Tibet

By Yeshe Choesang
15-01-2007
The malevolence video spectacle that was Nangpala shooting has provoked outrage throughout the world and just lighted on icon free speech of Tibetan people. The so called taunts of the land of control guards, China’s Nangpala shooting ripostes and the very videotaping of the event—ending in the sequels to the dropping of the trapdoor—removed, at least in Western media’s eyes, any dignity to the proceedings and opened questions about its legality. Even the architects of humble Tibetan’s downfall, many of world leaders have expressed displeasure with how things unfolded.
It is clear that China and its officials wanted the escaping Tibetans to be shot and killed to capital penalty for a variety of brutality. Cutting goat’s neck for sheep afraid of, said in Tibetan ancient words. It is also clear that Chinese officials underestimated the purpose of exile Tibetans to avenge Nangpala Tibetan dead women and children. Chinese determination was due more to reputation and political motivations rather than emotive reasons: The Chinese implementation order to Nangpala border guards and (most importantly), their immediate follow-up in face of several pressures to delay or commute on the shooting the Tibetan children and women, confirmed brutality as a serious player in their self guarding. There were, after all, these children women who did escape for free-speech—they killed them, the humble Tibetans without a single weapon.
For the pushing and shoving red scene in Snow Mountains that passed as witnesses at the killings, revenge was just a corner of red wing. With the exception of one red corner’s threat-ness, the killers, so called border guards, Chinese government officials, and everyone else in the snowline were Tibetan victims of Dalai Lama reign. To be in the snowline at their deaths were to recognize the sacrifice of their dead kin by exile Tibetans, especially Tibetan youths. These were no wanton victims in snowline where they lost their souls in ice of snow, but symbols of brave resistance to Chinese rule. To be present at murder videos meant that a participant’s exile family member (The Tibetan children or Tibetan brothers and sisters who killed by Chinese) had paid the ultimate sacrifice for their political opposition during Chinese illegal control over Tibet. All Tibetans paid their praise and remembered their solidarities. Among those martyrs was Tibetan Youth congress, Tibetan women’s Association, Tibetan Guchusum movement and Friends of Tibet etc, the much-revered other exile Tibetans to speak out for their pure souls were milted in the white snowline with red bleeding and pulled the only responses for blood for blood and souls for souls.
For those who were present at the brutality and more so for those who spoke, Nangpala shooting was an earth-shattering murder act. Their stature in the Tibetan’s mind is established, and their hopes and kin reaffirmed. For their part, they comported themselves with courage at the end, remaining calm and defiant in the face of taunts and death. That saved their struggles in the eyes of their Tibetan brothers and sisters, particularly their closer once, and reaffirmed their strength as a struggle for Tibet and it’s people at a time when thousands of Tibetans costly representing the majority of Tibetans who have no a little freedom in Tibet. At the end, they were reminder of history of Tibet, a completed Tibet nation and resolve in the face of insurmountable odds—something not lost on Tibetan leaders. Thus, whatever their rhetorical outrage, Tibetans know that even in deaths of Tibetans will continue to spread a long shadow over Tibetan issues.
For the China, the Tibet problem was the apparent haste and thirst for revenge that fueled the drive to easier implementation. Chinese foreign speaker at the press brief, who created the trial not reality that tried shooting Tibetans and Chinese lieutenants, expected years of appeals as self-guard from escaping rats added and a verdict on the infamous gassing of border militaries at Tibet and Nepal borders to occur before the Tibetans was killed to the scaffold. Members of border guard Forces responsible for high value detainees such as other Tibetans expected that at a minimum the murdering acting would take place after the any of Tibetan at land control broken. Chinese now banned the Tibetans most respected religious festival (Gaden Ngachoe) marking the 25th of every Tibetan 10th in their calendar has taken actions at end of 2006 the pilgrimage to all over Tibet. Tibetan’s supporters around the world assumed that some form of pardon or reduction in the Nangpala brutality might be possible in order to quell sectarian violence in future in Tibet. None of these views took into account Tibetan youth’s motivations or the absolute need of younger Tibetan leaders to see that Tibet freedom will be lighted sooner rather than later in order to bolster their political positions in an around the new Tibet government. Thus, the drive to killings of Tibetans at Nangpala was the “known unknown” (to use one of secretary of Tibet Autonomous Region’s best phrases) in the equation that Chinese policy-makers did not foresee and could not prevent.
In 1950s, in the end, Dalai Lama met Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung, made in a very Tibetan way. It may have looked cruel and barbaric to Chinese, and it may have been based on disputed legal grounds, but Chinese committed him as to tried and convicted for nation separation crimes, criticized, and pulled out unacceptable conditions in what for Tibet was an part of China, as same as Taiwan. it is must accepted efficient and relatively transparent process by Dalai Lama, one that was far better than the “justice” carried out during the ruling by Chinese leaders. To be sure, the Tibet issues are more political than criminal, but that was exactly the point: political crimes are the most sacred of crimes in China, particularly in Tibet, and Nangpala shooting was the best at committing them. That many Tibetan writers and media person were detained on the same gallows as many of their brothers and sisters are victims provided a sense of poetic, as well as political justice.
Nangpala’s shooting holds important lessons for those who seek to impose communist in countries where it has never existed. Holding human rights record is useful as a procedure for selecting government incumbents, and running open trials in which defendants can speak and have legal representation is clearly a step towards more transparency in the administration of justice. But neither of these can overcome decades of political hatred superimposed on centuries of religious and ethnic conflict, which is the case in Tibet. The banned, detained, sentenced and censorship’s samsara exposed the delusions of Hu’s administration officials who championed the forced imposition of “Communist” in Tibet, as well as the naiveté of Chinese officials on the every corner and every ground when dealing with the political realities motivating Tibet approaches to Tibetan issues. It also proved to be a remarkable way of reaffirming both red Chinese and particularly Han-Chinese pride and determination as well as Tibet control, which may or may not pave the ground for some form of post-some Tibetan small minded leaders, post-Chinese-occupation political compromise (especially if the Han-Chinese can act as intermediaries and power brokers, given their history and treatment under the Tibet democrat nation).
Whatever the future may bring, in Tibetan eyes exiled Tibetan leaders actions are relatively dignified and just. From 1990s, Tibet issues are running in corner direction, which never ever seen in world history, it also draws to an end a chapter in Tibet history that in retrospect may seem relatively stable given the uncertainties and chaos of the present. For the moment, contrary to what was promised in future, the future for Tibet is uncertain and delicately balanced as a direct consequence of the Chinese-crucial invasion and occupation. Such are the perils of the forced imposition of democracy, or ether communist, something that nations with similar pretensions may wish to take into account as they pursue their every individual’s future life.

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