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  • From: Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Chinese racists call for the murder of Tibetans
  • Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:39:34 -0700 (PDT)

All independent news about Tibet is blocked by Chinese censors.
At the same time, Chinese censors have passed racist comments
on a number of websites that calls for the murder of the "separatists."

Does this remind us of the genocide in Rwanda or of Goebles?

Read the details in the following article from the Paris based
organisation Reporters Without Borders

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=26248

China 17 March 2008

Crackdown in Tibet away from the eye of the media in new violation of
Olympics pledge

Reporters Without Borders today strongly condemned steps taken by Beijing
to prevent media coverage of demonstrations and an ongoing crackdown in Tibet
and in provinces where Tibetans live. Foreign journalists have been stopped
from entering the province and tight censorship has been imposed on the
Internet and in the Chinese press.

The authorities have since 12 March refused to grant foreign correspondents
permits to enter Tibet and at least 25 journalists, including 15 from Hong
Kong, have reportedly been expelled from Tibet or Tibetan areas.

"The freedom of movement for foreign journalists had been one of the few
positive developments ahead of the Olympic Games, but this is now being
flouted by the Chinese government facing Tibetan protests," the worldwide
press freedom organisation said.
"Yet again the Chinese government is trampling on the promises it made
linked to the Olympics and has preparing the ground to crackdown on the
Tibetan revolt in the absence of witnesses."

"Online censorship is also veering into racism, with comment items urging
the killing of Tibetan separatists, while all independent news on the events
is being censored," the organisation added.

The authorities have refused entry to Tibet to foreign correspondents since
12 March and tourists are also being denied access, for security reasons,
according to the authorities. One European correspondent confirmed to
Reporters Without Borders that requests for permission to enter Tibet faxed
to the Beijing authorities have gone unanswered. Officials responsible for
giving permits for Tibet stopped answering phone calls from 14 March.

The Foreign Correspondents Club of China said at least 25 journalists, 15
of them from Hong Kong, had been expelled from Tibet or Tibetan areas,
particularly Xiahe in Gansu province.
Jonathan Watts, correspondent for British daily The Guardian, was today
prevented from going through a police check point in this border province.
"After checking my passport, the police told me to go back and I had to leave
the region. They had obviously expected the arrival of foreign journalists,
because one of the policemen spoke English," he said. At least six other
foreign media have been forced to leave the regions where many Tibetans live.
And Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that foreigners were being refused
train and bus tickets in Gansu province or to be allowed to stay in Tongren,
in the neighbouring province of Qinghai, where large numbers of Tibetans live.

A few foreign journalists are still inside Tibet but are unable to move
around normally because the cities are under police and army control. A
reporter with The Economist, who is in the capital, Lhasa, had obtained
permission to travel to Tibet before the start of the demonstrations.

The decision of the authorities to close Tibet to the press is in
contravention of the rules for foreign media adopted in January 2007, ahead
of the Olympic Games. And in an introduction to the "Guide to services for
foreign journalists during the Olympic Games in Beijing", the city’s mayor
Liu Qi, wrote : "The freedom of foreign journalists to carry out their
professional work, will be guaranteed".

Nearly 15 Hong Kong journalists representing at least six media were
expelled from Lhasa, accused by the authorities of "illegal reporting". They
were then forcibly taken to the airport and put on a flight to Chengdu in
Sichuan province. "They were not very polite. They came and looked at our
computers, searching for video footage," Dickson Lee, a photographer on the
South China Morning Post, told AFP. They had earlier got footage out of Lhasa
of the riots which left nearly 80 dead, according to the Tibetan government
in exile. The Hong Kong Journalists’ Association (HKJA) has called on the
authorities to reconsider the expulsions.

The Chinese authorities also forced most foreign tourists in Tibet to leave
the province. Some of them who witnessed the first demonstrations had
provided photos and footage of the protests and the crackdown. It is more and
more difficult for the foreign press to gather news, particularly about the
hunting down of demonstrators because telephone connections have been cut in
Tibet. Foreign-based Tibetan websites, particularly phayul.com, have posted a
number of accounts and footage of the events, thanks to networks within Tibet.

The video-sharing website Youtube has been censored since 16 March after
footage was posted of demonstrations in the streets of Lhasa. The message,
"incorrect address" appears when anyone tries to open it. The Youtube videos
are also inaccessible from the website Google Video. The BBC, CNN and Yahoo
News websites have been regularly inaccessible over the past few days.

Anyone searching for Tibet in Chinese can see videos on YouTube.cn and on
others web sites which are hostile to the Tibetans along with insulting
remarks about "separatists Tibetans" which are not censored. Chinese
video-sharing platforms, the most popular of which are http://www.tudou.com
and http://www.56com, have had all news referring to the latest events
deleted. On the other hand one can find news websites on which racist
comments have been posted about Tibetans, calling for the murder of the
"separatists".

Reporters Without Borders has been able to confirm that the cyber-censors
have not been deleting them, although all messages referring to Tibet are
undergoing advance filtering.
Finally, broadcasts within China of international television, CNN and BBC,
were cut by the Chinese authorities on several occasions during showing of
footage of events in Tibet. While official television has been showing only
film of Tibetans attacking Chinese businesses, without referring to Tibetan
casualties and the army deployment.

A disastrous state of press freedom in Tibet
Trying to get access to unofficial news is very hard for Tibetans. All
media are controlled by the Chinese Communist Party or public bodies. A few
underground publications run by Tibetans, particularly monks, are circulated
secretly.

Chinese and Tibetan journalists in this Himalayan province are forced to
comply with state directives much more than in the rest of China. Only
articles on official religious demonstrations are allowed. Party members are
to be found in all key posts of the administration and media in Tibet,
ensuring there is no chance of any editorial freedom. Articles are submitted
to "journalist-censors" before being published.

Radio Free Asia (RFA) and Voice of America (VOA), based in the United
States, along with Voice of Tibet (VOT), based in India, are the three main
radio stations that broadcast programmes to Tibet in the Tibetan language,
but these programmes are systematically jammed.

Thanks to their acquisition of ALLISS aerials made by the French company
Thalès, the authorities have been able to boost their capacity to jam
broadcasts, particularly in Tibet. Radio Free Asia has as a result been
forced to use around a score of different frequencies to try to get round
this censorship. During an on-the-spot investigation in Tibet in 2006,
representatives of Reporters Without Borders found that the Chinese
authorities constantly tried to scramble broadcasts using thudding sounds and
music. In Lhasa, RFA and VOT programmes in Tibetan were drowned out by
broadcasts in Chinese. Many monks do continue to secretly listen to these
broadcasts inside their monasteries.

The Chinese authorities are particularly watchful about Internet use in
Tibet. Identity cards are systematically checked in Cyber-cafés and several
websites and discussion forums were closed in 2007. One instance was the
closure in December 2007 of the most popular discussion forums with Tibetan
students (http://www.tibet123.com).

© Reporters Without Borders - 47, rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris - France


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===This looked rather interesting, and may affect things a bit. I do
wish that they had not made things proprietary...

"A strain of bacteria accidentally found in the Chesapeake Bay more
than 20 years ago -- a bug that decomposes everything from algae to
newspapers to crab shells -- could help produce cheaper fuel,
according to scientists at the University of Maryland"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/09/AR2008030901983.html?hpid=topnews

Geoffrey Wendel



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