Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Tibetan Suicide Bombers?

Tibetan Suicide Bombers?Very unlikely. Though this is Chinese propaganda in Chinese news, killing other people goes completely against the major principles of Buddhism. Since Tibetan Buddhists tend to take their religion very seriously there is no likelihood that there would ever be suicide bombers who were also Tibetan Buddhist.

However, it is possible that secular Tibetan Nationalists who are seeing there 3000 year old civilization completely destroyed by the Chinese might consider being Suicide bombers as a last resort but they would have nothing to do with Tibetan Buddhism or The Dalai Lama or the Tibetan Government in Exile.

NO. What I think is really happening is that the Chinese government is in trouble on multiple fronts and is looking for a scapegoat so the Chinese government doesn't collapse from within from private business losses sustained by members of the Communist party and from graft and bribes. The difficulty in maintaining secrecy while so many Chinese are starving will be hard to reconcile for the average Chinese citizen. So if the Chinese Government cannot divert attention away from itself somehow it could collapse from within eventually.

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