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Tears of Blood: A Cry For Tibet

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This is a must read book. As the west invites the China that Mao created to share in the wealth and the market place it is ever more important to understand the brutality and ruthlessness of the current Chineese government.

This book presents a clear and well documented look at the atrocities that have been inflicted on the Tibeten People in the name of official Chineese "liberation". 1.5 million bodies or 1/5 of the tibetan population from killings, starvation and brutal torture are all spelled out. Most of the dead are buddists and therefore do not believe in a response by violence.

If you like your facts in glossed over versions check out the movies 7 years in Tibet, or Little Budda or the best of the bunch, Kun Dun.

For an well written and easy read of the whole horrible truth of a genocide that picks up where Hitler left off.This terrible situations continues to this day and this book is a must read.

As a nation we have to understand the monster that is the truth of the Chinnese Government and this book tells it all. You'll read this and then run to your nearest word processor to write your congressman and demand that before we allow China any more of the fruits of the free and capitalist system they have to change their stance on respect for human rights. This country has not only attempted to distroy a people but they are trying to human spirit in Tibet.

Want more, run a search on Tibet and take a visit to the official web site of the Tibetan Government In Exile. But what ever you do do not ignore this book.

China is now the newest trading partner for America. This bookand "In Exile from the Land of Snows" by John Avedon offer agreat deal of understanding tho the nature of the Government ofChina. If you are planning to do business or just buy the "Madein China" Label you should want to understand where much of yourinvestment goes and the horrors that your dollars pay for. This is nota read that will leave you unmoved. You will want to know more...Another Video to see is a chinese and Tibetan language film "Windhorse" Very accurate when compared to the other histories listed above and current news reports out of Tibet. For more on Tibet visit the website of the Tibetan Government in Exile at www.tibet.com or for a beginners introduction to Tibet visit www.tibetanphotoproject.com and then come back and get this book. Reading this book is a worthwhile journey in today's global marketplace.

Mary Craig's Tears of Blood is a masterful account of a history long overlooked and disregarded by the international community, the history of 20th century China's brutal invasion and occupation of Tibet. Ms. Craig has gone even further than most to support the struggles of the Tibetan people, refuting point by point the standard line of the Chinese government, "Tibet has always been a part of China." A must read for anyone even remotely interested in human rights or Tibetan independence.

This book was a bit depressing - there is no doubt that what the Chinese did in Tibet was horrendous . . . and depressing. But this book doesn't stop -- its just one horrible thing after another . . . I thought Patrick French's Tibet Tibet gave a better overall feel and balance for what has happened in Tibet over the last 50 years.

Craig presents a long stream of horrific reports detailing military attacks, massacres, killings, detentions, tortures, rapes, beatings, demolitions, confiscations of property, and inquisition-like attempts at thought control. The accounts are given as examples which seem to represent the norm in China's administration of Tibet. And in the light of these accounts, the Chinese appear to be monsters. Their invasion of Tibet seems almost as brutal as the US conquest of Native America. Their military suppression of opposition seems almost as murderous as Russian operations in Afghanistan, or US operations in Vietnam. The condescending cultural imperialism of Chinese officials seems almost as bad as European racism in colonial Africa. The heavy-handed attempts to eradicate Tibetan culture seem abusive as the old Canadian residential school system for Native children.

Craig's denunciation of Chinese crimes seems to cry out for collective punishment of the Chinese people. The anger she conveys resembles that of articulate spokesmen for the Palestinians. She honors the Dalai Lama for his devotion to non-violence, but sympathizes with those who would use any means necessary. In denouncing the evils of other nations, she sounds more like a supporter of Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair, and less like a follower of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, or the Dalai Lama.

This book is great and by great, I mean that it's very well-written, loaded with info and gives human voices and faces to the struggle from Tibetans of all classes. It's not easy to read due to the injustices but the writer has made it easy for anyone to comprehend. I have previously known a bit of the struggle from some research, documentaries, etc. I still found a great deal of information in the book. Again, a person need not be well-versed on the subject due to the east of the writing.

It DOES put a very human face to the struggle and, should you choose to read this book, you will feel the injustice of this and the frustration with everyone's going along with China and making Tibet stand alone against such a tide of blood.

I knew VERY LITTLE about what happened to Tibet and the Dalai Lama, until this book. It's a very good read....Please consider buying it and learning about the abuse of human rights in other parts of the world.

I never heard of the term "thamzing", but this book is full of primary sources or accounts of public torture and Chinese communist lies. I cried several times reading this book due to the horrible accounts. There is a real cry, by many of the tortured... why do so many people not believe them?

Progress, by no means is worth any human loss of life.

Genocide. Ecocide. ugly words, but far worse is the actual doing of these atrocities. the book is passionate without being preachy, balanced in trying to stick to the facts without over dramatizing them. its is well written and easily read, convincing and deeply saddening. a must read for anyone desirous of knowing what is going on on The Roof of the World.

realpolitik versus the faith of the Dalai Lama and the people of Tibet. chinese communist with the millenium old chinese racism and serious blindness to all things not-chinese versus poor, buddhist, hill people. Tibet is loosing and may already have lost.

One thing missing from the book is an impassioned and reasonable plead of why the West, European and American people should give a damn about what happens in such a remote, poor, unimportant part of the world. her argument stems only from a call to justice and a call to the unity of humanity. and this is relatively unspoken. it is assumed in her passion for the people and Tibet and justice for there case.

Give me a minute to argue the Tibetan case.
1- you buy Chinese goods, these effectively support the government and allow the rape of this poor country and its people
2-there is a unity of humanity. we in the west are detribalized and owe little loyalty between the level of our families and the national governments.
3-the connectedness of all is real. for instance. ship the tibetan forests to china, silt load in the major rivers in India will be enormously increased. the destruction and flooding there will kill millions and destroy the wealth of another poor nation. this will have great effect on the military and political situation in this volitile region.
4-in is an example of the nature of chinese, communist, secular, expansionist, imperialist power at it rawist, most destructive, murderous.
5-the tibetan people through the Dalai Lama partly, but through their faith have much to teach the world, and they are doing so in actions, with their bodies and lives in a way that shames the materialist West. a very important lesson about what is really important in life.

but after all of this.
justice freedom faith
are more than words. they are deeds.

and this book will help you understand why some people are killing other people in Tibet. today. tomorrow.