GO ORANGE FOR TIBET

The Colour Orange – Can China Ban the Colour Orange?

China as a nation had from time immemorial been acquainted with Tibet as a neighbouring country. Like in all national histories there have been trade relations between the two countries as well as times of war!!! During the reign of the great king Songtsen Gampo China had to face defeats in the Tibetan hands and landed up paying yearly tributes to Tibet. There have also been many years of peace between the two nations, the ages of cultural and knowledge exchanges...of love and compassion.

With the two world wars the world has learnt a very essential lesson that for the survival of the human race and our very own mother Earth, PEACE is needed and to ensure this the UNO is founded.
Each country as a member of the world could also take membership in the UNO and take shelter in the great principles propounded therein. Sadly though five countries got veto power in the UNO among which China is one. I always wondered why few countries were given this special privilege specially to a country like China ruled by the Communist party.....what conditions have determined whether a nation is eligible for this veto power is still a big question for me??? Strangely though, soon after the second WORLD WAR when the world is awakening to work for peace, China conquered Tibet with a lot of bloodshed and no one bothered.
How can Tibet feel as a member of the world family when its very existence was threatened by another member of the world family.
It was like being stabbed to death by ones own brother and the other siblings did not give a damn!! How sad and how typical.
Sixty years have passed, six long decades of human suffering on the Roof of the World caused by the red Chinese regime and the situation has changed from extremely bad to worse.
This is the time in Tibet where for many, one would find more solace in death than in life under a foreign power where every breath is like a poisonous gas.
Tibet had been more or less for so long an orphan with orphanages who never bothered to find a genuine solution for the real issue. At this moment, a saying comes to my mind: give food to someone and you feed him once: teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime! The Tibetans would be most self sufficient if Tibet is returned to them. The most genuine support for the Tibetans would be when a country is willing to put its whole heart and soul into the issue and take real actions to bring a solution. We are for too long treated as objects of pity...far too long but our condition is worsening.

Another effort made for uniting the world family is with the start of the Olympic games where each nation could participate in the competition to bring humanity in the forefront in spite of the differences inherent in each participating nation...to unify the world without any discrimination.

Great Philosophy but what about responsibilities?? When the International Olympic Committee announced China as the Host of the 2008 Olympic Games there was Jubilium and pride in the Chinese people...of course they have the right to celebrate, but the question is, what is there to celebrate in China? Are they celebrating their victory over the entire world for their inhumane policies...for their pride in occupying a peaceful neighbouring nation and torturing the Tibetans for six decades, for their genocide tactics to extinguish the Tibetan race or are they celebrating the Chinese governments successful iron grip of the 1.3 billion Chinese people who have to behave like the Communist Robots of the sick regime or be shot like what happened in the Tiannenmen Square massacre!!!

Throughout the Chinese Olympic torch relays, in the different stops they were received with demonstrations by the Tibetans who live in exile and their supporters. The Tibetans who live in Tibet and guard the nation from inside showed their intense bravery in spite of the guns pointed towards them and many sacrificed their lives for the freedom of the Tibetan people.
Many courageous exile Tibetans hoisted the Tibetan National flag on the Chinese embassies and brought the attention of the world towards the Tibetan issue on a far larger scale.
By doing this they have not hurt the citizens of the host nation nor the Chinese people physically but the message was put across: that the human rights crises in Tibet under the Chinese regime is not tolerable.
A Tibetan in Tibet would be immediately shot for this action and therefore it is an urgent act of desperation for the Tibetans living in exile to show their solidarity with their brothers and sisters who are locked in the Himalayas. Any person of conscience would understand this.

I also pity the ordinary Chinese people whose lives are in stake if they do not participate as government machineries. The IOC has made one big undeniable crime by giving China the status of the 2008 Olympics host. The IOC and the Chinese government unanimously preach the world not to mix politics and games .O please, think sanely: One of the sponsors of the Olympic games:Coca Coca is getting filthy rich by selling to the rest of the world one of the most unhealthy beverages. In many remote parts of India,for example, where millions do not have proper drinking water and people have to walk for long distances to get this so called most plentiful, life sustaining commodity, you will find Coca Cola!!! What a contradiction!
The VW is accompanying the torch relay in China to promote their own cars: this is the moral responsibility they have towards humanity. May be when all the worlds natural resources are exhausted, VW will bring us Oxygen and clean air and drinking water from China with the money which they make from car sales.

By the way we are now in an extremely hightech age where people go to the space and come back. A lot of money and other resources are used in exploring the outer world and we do not look once into our inner self. We are all interdependent, our actions in one part of the world affects immensely in other parts of the world. The interdependency is the most essential philosophy of nature itself....how can one say not to mix politics with sports and sports with human rights?

Since the protest began in Tibet this March, hundreds of Tibetans have been reported killed and 4000 people detained in unknown places, it is still a shock for us: what have we done to deserve this? How many more should be slaughtered in Tibet till the UNO finally wakes up and makes real actions?

China is blaming the Tibetans for being an obstacle for the Olympic games because they think this is the opportunity to get more international respect. They suppressed the peaceful Tibetan protesters in a ridiculously violent manner and they suppressed their own peoples right to knowledge by blocking news from the outside world and kicking all the foreign reporters out of the country. What do they have to hide for doing this? China gave a deadline to foreigners to leave Tibet in a short span of time but did the world give China a deadline to improve its human rights policies in Tibet? No.

There were protests to allow the free media to Tibet to scrutinize the situation but if one thinks carefully, what is there to see apart from killing and cultural genocide. The entire world family knows exactly what is happening in Tibet but many members of the world Family just bother only for economic gains which comes from being silent and non-action. It is this silence that is killing Tibet slowly and painfully. Meanwhile THE UNO continues to sleep. Thank you so much for the oral support.

But we Tibetans have not yet lost hope. We know that with the guidance of our one and only Dalai Lama there is still hope in the horizon. We also know that there are in all parts of the world genuine peace lovers who prefer not to be blind and who would rather act than to watch till life comes to an end. My hearty thanks and infinite gratitude to all of you.

Tibet's survival is interdependent on the survival of the world and vice versa. As the Roof of the World other countries draw its water resources from Tibet. The Chinese government is exploiting all our natural resources which we Tibetans respected in the past...our water is getting dirtier, our lakes are polluted, there is everything possible happening which comes with overexploitation. Is the Communist regime still telling the world not to bring politics in the games and the politicians around the globe digesting this? We will still not lose our hope because HOPE is the only thing we possess as Tibetans and no merciless action can rob this away from us.

One latest human rights disaster in China is the staging of drama on the Olympics torch relay route: the case of Jin Jin, the young handicapped torch bearer protecting the torch. She was overnight made the national heroine and overnight a traitor for expressing her real thoughts to the media as found in one of the Chinese blogs. She was closely monitored during the interviews and in the end when she expressed her views about being unsure of boycotting the French supermarkets in China, she suddenly became the bad girl. O..what a shame on China!

Over time many individuals and some governments have come to the realization that if China does not respond to civilized talks, then perhaps they need other consequences to behave properly. One way is by boycotting the Olympic games, even if its about not attending the opening ceremony...this should give China the first indication that the world takes the Tibetan issue seriously and that harder consequences will follow if the communist regime does not behave.

Who is willing to send his children to play with a neighbourhood bully? Not me. China can not get international respect just by hosting the Olympics....but China can restore its respect by respecting the feelings of the billions of humans on this earth and restore their due human rights to them. China can now use this event to start a completely new Era: of peace and brotherhood.

From repeated experiences with China the world knows that this is a country which cant respect its words...in my words this is an absolutely unreliable entity.

To reassert the worlds continuous support of the Tibetan cause we use the colour Orange as a protest colour against the Chinese regime. We do not expect the world to boycott the Olympic games completely but by using the colour Orange at the sports events, a colour which China can not prohibit, we request the sportsmen to show solidarity with the Tibetan people and remind China that they do not tolerate the human rights abuses going on in Tibet.

This orange revolution could be boosted if the sportsmen use this orange colour in the sports events in their own countries and in this way encourage the Olympic sportsmen, also to take the necessary initiative for bringing peace in Tibet and in the world.

Tseten Choedon - Intitiative Go Orange For Tibet

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Die Idee zu diesem Projekt: www.thecolororange.net

The music on this Page is by Shire and Dharma Bums


The Colour Orange – Can China Ban the Colour Orange? China as a nation had from time immemorial been acquainted with Tibet as a neighbouring country. Like in all national histories there have been trade relations between the two countries as well as times of war!!! During the reign of the great king Songtsen Gampo China had to face defeats in the Tibetan hands and landed up paying yearly tributes to Tibet. There have also been many years of peace between the two nations, the ages of cultural and knowledge exchanges...of love and compassion. With the two world wars the world has learnt a very essential lesson that for the survival of the human race and our very own mother Earth, PEACE is needed and to ensure this the UNO is founded. Each country as a member of the world could also take membership in the UNO and take shelter in the great principles propounded therein. Sadly though five countries got veto power in the UNO among which China is one. I always wondered why few countries were given this special privilege specially to a country like China ruled by the Communist party.....what conditions have determined whether a nation is eligible for this veto power is still a big question for me??? Strangely though, soon after the second WORLD WAR when the world is awakening to work for peace, China conquered Tibet with a lot of bloodshed and no one bothered. How can Tibet feel as a member of the world family when its very existence was threatened by another member of the world family. It was like being stabbed to death by ones own brother and the other siblings did not give a damn!! How sad and how typical. Sixty years have passed, six long decades of human suffering on the Roof of the World caused by the red Chinese regime and the situation has changed from extremely bad to worse. This is the time in Tibet where for many, one would find more solace in death than in life under a foreign power where every breath is like a poisonous gas. Tibet had been more or less for so long an orphan with orphanages who never bothered to find a genuine solution for the real issue. At this moment, a saying comes to my mind: give food to someone and you feed him once: teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime! The Tibetans would be most self sufficient if Tibet is returned to them. The most genuine support for the Tibetans would be when a country is willing to put its whole heart and soul into the issue and take real actions to bring a solution. We are for too long treated as objects of pity...far too long but our condition is worsening. Another effort made for uniting the world family is with the start of the Olympic games where each nation could participate in the competition to bring humanity in the forefront in spite of the differences inherent in each participating nation...to unify the world without any discrimination. Great Philosophy but what about responsibilities?? When the International Olympic Committee announced China as the Host of the 2008 Olympic Games there was Jubilium and pride in the Chinese people...of course they have the right to celebrate, but the question is, what is there to celebrate in China? Are they celebrating their victory over the entire world for their inhumane policies...for their pride in occupying a peaceful neighbouring nation and torturing the Tibetans for six decades, for their genocide tactics to extinguish the Tibetan race or are they celebrating the Chinese governments successful iron grip of the 1.3 billion Chinese people who have to behave like the Communist Robots of the sick regime or be shot like what happened in the Tiannenmen Square massacre!!! Throughout the Chinese Olympic torch relays, in the different stops they were received with demonstrations by the Tibetans who live in exile and their supporters. The Tibetans who live in Tibet and guard the nation from inside showed their intense bravery in spite of the guns pointed towards them and many sacrificed their lives for the freedom of the Tibetan people. Many courageous exile Tibetans hoisted the Tibetan National flag on the Chinese embassies and brought the attention of the world towards the Tibetan issue on a far larger scale. By doing this they have not hurt the citizens of the host nation nor the Chinese people physically but the message was put across: that the human rights crises in Tibet under the Chinese regime is not tolerable. A Tibetan in Tibet would be immediately shot for this action and therefore it is an urgent act of desperation for the Tibetans living in exile to show their solidarity with their brothers and sisters who are locked in the Himalayas. Any person of conscience would understand this. I also pity the ordinary Chinese people whose lives are in stake if they do not participate as government machineries. The IOC has made one big undeniable crime by giving China the status of the 2008 Olympics host. The IOC and the Chinese government unanimously preach the world not to mix politics and games .O please, think sanely: One of the sponsors of the Olympic games:Coca Coca is getting filthy rich by selling to the rest of the world one of the most unhealthy beverages. In many remote parts of India,for example, where millions do not have proper drinking water and people have to walk for long distances to get this so called most plentiful, life sustaining commodity, you will find Coca Cola!!! What a contradiction! The VW is accompanying the torch relay in China to promote their own cars: this is the moral responsibility they have towards humanity. May be when all the worlds natural resources are exhausted, VW will bring us Oxygen and clean air and drinking water from China with the money which they make from car sales. By the way we are now in an extremely hightech age where people go to the space and come back. A lot of money and other resources are used in exploring the outer world and we do not look once into our inner self. We are all interdependent, our actions in one part of the world affects immensely in other parts of the world. The interdependency is the most essential philosophy of nature itself....how can one say not to mix politics with sports and sports with human rights? Since the protest began in Tibet this March, hundreds of Tibetans have been reported killed and 4000 people detained in unknown places, it is still a shock for us: what have we done to deserve this? How many more should be slaughtered in Tibet till the UNO finally wakes up and makes real actions? China is blaming the Tibetans for being an obstacle for the Olympic games because they think this is the opportunity to get more international respect. They suppressed the peaceful Tibetan protesters in a ridiculously violent manner and they suppressed their own peoples right to knowledge by blocking news from the outside world and kicking all the foreign reporters out of the country. What do they have to hide for doing this? China gave a deadline to foreigners to leave Tibet in a short span of time but did the world give China a deadline to improve its human rights policies in Tibet? No. There were protests to allow the free media to Tibet to scrutinize the situation but if one thinks carefully, what is there to see apart from killing and cultural genocide. The entire world family knows exactly what is happening in Tibet but many members of the world Family just bother only for economic gains which comes from being silent and non-action. It is this silence that is killing Tibet slowly and painfully. Meanwhile THE UNO continues to sleep. Thank you so much for the oral support. But we Tibetans have not yet lost hope. We know that with the guidance of our one and only Dalai Lama there is still hope in the horizon. We also know that there are in all parts of the world genuine peace lovers who prefer not to be blind and who would rather act than to watch till life comes to an end. My hearty thanks and infinite gratitude to all of you. Tibet's survival is interdependent on the survival of the world and vice versa. As the Roof of the World other countries draw its water resources from Tibet. The Chinese government is exploiting all our natural resources which we Tibetans respected in the past...our water is getting dirtier, our lakes are polluted, there is everything possible happening which comes with overexploitation. Is the Communist regime still telling the world not to bring politics in the games and the politicians around the globe digesting this? We will still not lose our hope because HOPE is the only thing we possess as Tibetans and no merciless action can rob this away from us. One latest human rights disaster in China is the staging of drama on the Olympics torch relay route: the case of Jin Jin, the young handicapped torch bearer protecting the torch. She was overnight made the national heroine and overnight a traitor for expressing her real thoughts to the media as found in one of the Chinese blogs. She was closely monitored during the interviews and in the end when she expressed her views about being unsure of boycotting the French supermarkets in China, she suddenly became the bad girl. O..what a shame on China! Over time many individuals and some governments have come to the realization that if China does not respond to civilized talks, then perhaps they need other consequences to behave properly. One way is by boycotting the Olympic games, even if its about not attending the opening ceremony...this should give China the first indication that the world takes the Tibetan issue seriously and that harder consequences will follow if the communist regime does not behave. Who is willing to send his children to play with a neighbourhood bully? Not me. China can not get international respect just by hosting the Olympics....but China can restore its respect by respecting the feelings of the billions of humans on this earth and restore their due human rights to them. China can now use this event to start a completely new Era: of peace and brotherhood. From repeated experiences with China the world knows that this is a country which cant respect its words...in my words this is an absolutely unreliable entity. To reassert the worlds continuous support of the Tibetan cause we use the colour Orange as a protest colour against the Chinese regime. We do not expect the world to boycott the Olympic games completely but by using the colour Orange at the sports events, a colour which China can not prohibit, we request the sportsmen to show solidarity with the Tibetan people and remind China that they do not tolerate the human rights abuses going on in Tibet. This orange revolution could be boosted if the sportsmen use this orange colour in the sports events in their own countries and in this way encourage the Olympic sportsmen, also to take the necessary initiative for bringing peace in Tibet and in the world. Tseten Choedon - Intitiative Go Orange For Tibet Tibet Nachrichten in Deutsch und Englisch Tibet Nachrichten in Englisch Die Idee zu diesem Projekt: www.thecolororange.net The music on this Page is by Shire and Dharma Bums		Kontaktiere Go Orange For Tibet um eine Sportveranstaltung in Deiner Stadt ORANGE zu gestalten.
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