Tibet: A lesson learnt!

Tibet, a beautiful country! A land with a rich heritage, and wonderful people. A country with its unique language, script, religion and law. I don't know what the current political status of this land is, but its certainly not a part of any of its neighbours, it pretty much stands by itself! Actually all the above sentences should probably be in past tense. By now, the PRC must have already cleaned up Tibet!

My initial reaction to the Chinese crackdown on Tibet was: Don't the communists have no mercy? How can they kill a culture like that? Burn their history, holy books and scriptures, ram monasteries and change the socio-economic setup. Why do they have to bash these peace loving religious people? Communists are crazy! Someone needs to stop them. What are the countries of the world doing? We will be to be blamed for this cultural genocide. With these thoughts i kept an eye on the news and also started some research on the history of this issue. And now my conclusion is this: Tibetan people are the only people to be blamed here. This had to happen!

Look at Australia, there is no clue where the Aborigines are... almost completely wiped out I must say. America, colonised by Britishers and French, natives fucked up and robbed to create a so called "free" country! South Africa, same story. No matter what rules are made by the leagues of nations and what heights of morality mankind reaches, the rules of nature are simple; Survival of the fittest! This is evolution, this is reality!

Religions like the Buddhist faith of the Tibetans need to be defended externally by force of arms. Such a religion is defenceless in case of a war. The fact that you are a vegetarian does not mean that the tiger is not going to kill you!! Tibetans are surrounded by emerging superpowers. Non-violence cannot be used to protect your city walls. There are limitations of each method. If we Indians believe that our non-violence movement freed us, we are wrong. World war 2 left our colonial kingdoms so weak, they had to go back. Notice the creations of so many small countries in the 40s and 50s. If there is anybody to be thanked for our freedom, its Germany!


A religion may be based on non-violence not a country. Especially when you are sharing your boundary with communist China! No non-violent protests, no Nobel peace prize is going to save the autonomy of Tibet. Chinese crack down on Tibet is just another day in the predator-prey game, it had to happen. The Tibetan people are blind if they couldn't see it coming, and even if they saw it, they are too slow to adapt. And quite obviously, the next prey of the red dragon is us. What happened in Tibet is a tragedy but more than that is a lesson for us to learn...