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[Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com>]

More than 100 Tibetans have self-immolated in the last few months, yet the 
Western media has almost stopped reporting about Chinese repression and 
Western leaders keep on courting powerful and cash-rich leaders in Beijing. 
The Chinese are preventing the reporting about the repression and large parts 
of the Western public have swallowed the Chinese propaganda lies. Young 
Westerners who are privileged by enjoying political freedom and prosperity 
are insensitive to the suffering of the Tibetan people. They are excusing the 
brutal repression of the Chinese government by highlighting demeanor of 
Western governments.
Does the West only acknowledge the fight against oppression if it is 
accompanied by terrorism? Do we want to reward terrorism? If that is the case 
we morally bankrupt. Then the Tibetans would have to change from a strategy 
of self-immolation to a strategy of suicide bombs. That may further their 
political aims but would mean an end to the spiritual values of the Tibetan 
people. However, this is about our own spiritual values and the question of 
whether we’ll be able to look at ourselves in a mirror tomorrow.