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China/Tibet
 * China promised to improve human rights for olympics
 * China granted Olympics
 * No change- Human rights
 * Tibet- many slaves-poor
 * Slave aren't independent- basically owned
 * Tibet- closed all visitors
 * Protests
 * Tibet- not indepented- want be
 * China- fourth largest country
 * Beijing-capital- China
 * Lhasa-capital-Tibet
 * China population- 1,306,313,800 people approx., 14.2million people- approx- Beijing
 * 1.2million Tibetians (1/5th of the population) died due to China's policies.
 * Estimate- 200000 tibetians in exile.
 * Half Lhasa's population- ham chinese
 * 1 Chinese guard per 20 tibetans
 * Under Tibet $4 trillion worth oil
 * 100000 Tibetans- refugees around world
 * Tibetans arrested for protest
 * China don't trust Dalai Lama
 * Imprisoned- 7 months- painting Tibetan flag
 * More chinese then tibetans
 * You can be gunned down if you protest against the chinese govt.
 * Tibetans are crossing himalayas- escape chinese govt.- can be shot/ death sentence
 * Some items say made in China- forced labour in Tibet
 * If women have more than 1 child- Forcibly Sterilised- no aniseptic
 * Chinese police don't allow Tibetans to talk to media
 * Man arrested- writing "free Tibet" in personal diary
 * 22 Tibetans killed by riots- 140 tibetans killed by chinese police.
 * If tibetan talks to foreigner it is 1 mans life gone-if caught by chinese police
 * Chinese police taken land off tibetans made them live in houses

Dalai Lama > Chin a attacks Tibet/reason
 * Dalai Lama- Spoilt as child
 * Born in poor family
 * Current Dalai Lama 14th
 * 15th Dalai Lama already training
 * Punishes- eye gauging, amputation, sliting wrists and ankle tendons, chain anround legs, standing cages.
 * Second command- called Panchen Lama
 * Exiled to India
 * Not allowed return China, Tibet
 * Wants Tibet to be part of China because, he thinks Tibet will benifit from it.
 * Dalai lama consistantly urged the tibetian people not to resort to violance-this is why he won the noble peace prize in 1989.
 * Proposals:
 * Transformation-whole of tibet in to a zone of Ahimsa, demilitarized-zone of peace and none violence
 * Abandonment- chinas population transfer policy-which threat ened-exsistence of tibetans as people
 * Respect-tibetan peoples-fundamental-human rights and democratic freedoms
 * Restoration-protection of tibets natural enviroment and abandonment
 * Dalai Lama found at 4, at 15 became leader, 72 now
 * Dalai Lama 13 soon 14 meetings with George Bush
 * Tibetan prisioners- Tortured/ beaten
 * making schools in India
 * has been in exile for 43 years
 * Dalai Lama said"tibetans should stay peaceful and everything would end"
 * Think it's left over 13th centuary- by Quing Dinastey
 * Government say they helping Tibet
 * China believe that Tibet need help with Budist religion
 * China to crowded- Expand into Tibet.
 * Attack- 1950

Chinese Government History
 * Want population down 1.37 billion 2010
 * chinese leaders- believe- sovereingty over Tibet- 700 years
 * Used to run on Pyramid System (Dalai Lama,Nobels,Slaves)
 * one stage- Lhasa deserted
 * China-attempt-capture Dalai Lama
 * 14 Dalai Lama's
 * 13th century both china-tibet fell under control of Mongols
 * For years tibet was a mystery (couldn't be found)

Religon
 * Believe- Dalai Lama- recarnation
 * Buddhist
 * Officially Atheist
 * a few: Daoist
 * Muslim
 * Christian

Olympics
 * Believe- Olympics- becoming- mixed- politics, don't want
 * About 50 days