Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...went up to this guy in the rally and asked him, "Do you actually know where Tibet is?" Without slowing down in waving his "Free Tibet" sign with all his energy, he looked puzzled but nonetheless shrugged, "It's somewhere in China, isn't it?" We continued, "Yeah, but where exactly is it and when did it first become, like, a country?" "I don't have to know that, but all I know is that Mr. Lama has personally...
Excuse us, sir, the Dalai Lama is not a name but a title. Thus, the intellectual dimension and self-justification of the protest end right there. Tell us, seriously, what do you know about Tibet? (You are not thinking that all Tibetans are monks, are you?) Or, for that matter, China. (You are not thinking that all Chinese are red communists...
...protesters had to be herded into their respective pens: Taiwan here, Tibet there, and all those bubbly, bussed-in Chinese nationalists in the Graduate School of Design. The Chinese communist flag--bright, blood red, arrogant yellow and seemingly spanking new--had to be hung proudly from University Hall. The special-edition Harvard Gazette, a.k.a. Pravda, had to be distributed to the hundreds of international journalists in attendance. The entrances to Loker Commons and Sanders Theatre had to be blocked off for hundreds of feet. And the Taiwanese Culture Society had to be displaced...
According to Katie P. Sigelman '99, undergraduate director of Students for a Free Tibet (SFT), the coordinators of the protest were outraged that the University rescinded its agreement to allow Harvard students to demonstrate on Harvard property and neglected to inform them...
...After panels and a visit from Jiang, still nobody is talking about human rights in Tibet. I find that very sad," Mortensen said...