I love this shit. As evidence of Chinese human rights abuses
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Some teenagers were arrested and jailed for a month for spraypainting pro-Dalai Lama messages on a police station. Grafiti in NYC is a class A misdemeanor; You can get a year in jail or three years on probation
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Some cops shot a nun. This is bad but the fact that they call out one specific instance, when compared to America, seems farcical.
They also quote Nazis and American missionaries on the conditions under Communist rule. Are those really the most reliable sources you can get, guys?
I don’t know much of anything about the history of Tibet or the Communist rule over ethnic Tibetan regions, but articles like this are so full of questionable sources with obvious conflicts of interest that it makes me sad laugh.
This is all very frustrating, because I can absolutely and easily believe that a war weary army that had spent decades fighting the Nationalists and the Japanese would do terrible things to civilians, because that’s what armies do. But the side alleging abuses and minimizing the horrors of slavery and serfdom is literally The Great Satan and it’s lackeys, so nothing they say can be trusted at all. So what you’ve got is two competing propaganda narratives and no impartial observers who can comment on what is and is not likely bullshit, what is exaggerated by one side or minimized by the other.
