On the journey through life, you're bound to meet many people. Today, you are destined to meet me. Who am I? My name is
Amy Nedetria Reeves
Check out the link! I am an Oral Roberts University Undergraduate student majoring in International Relations.
I'm currently working on my senior paper. It's been something that has been developing inside my head for quite a while now thanks to The Robertson School of Government at Regent University, my Dad (the original conehead), and Samuel Shoun (also known as Kaiser Amadaus 7).
I hope to enlighten the world as I've been enlightened about the many faces of genocide in China. In order to futher Communism in China, the government has sought to get rid of anyone that would offer any viewpoints that may threaten the existence of Communism in China.
"THOSE WHO CANNOT REMEMBER THE PAST ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT."-George Santayana:1863--1952, Spanish-born American philosopher, writer.
The day before Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, demanding the mass extermination of the Jewish inhabitants there, he explained away his actions to his officers by saying with a laugh, "Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?"
Because no one remembered the Armenian genocide carried out by the Ottoman Empire in 1915, Hitler felt that no one would stop his own endeavors before he had entered into a full-blown genocide.
CONGRESSMAN THOMAS BLILEY, R-Va. (CR-House, 4124184, p. H2979): "I know that the actions of the Ottoman Government did not lead directly to the forced starvation of the Ukraine by Josef Stalin, the gas chambers of Auschwitz, the gruesome slaughter of the Cambodians, Idi Amin's death campaign in Uganda, and the more recent actions in Matabeleland in Zimbabwe, but I know that human nature, even a warped and infamous human nature, needs the comfort of believing that it can get away with something before it procedes....If more proof is needed [than Adolph Hitlers statement about no one remembering the Armenians] then we can look up to Idi Amin's frequent statements of his adoration for Adolph Hitler as a man who knew how to handle the problem."
Soviet models such as the Ukranian "famine" were used by China in their genocide attempts as the Chinese inserted themselves into the border nations of Mongolia, Manchuria (now Cambodia), and Tibet. The parallels are astonishing. Just as the soviets had inflicted their genocide on the Ukraine by simulating a famine (among other gruesome things), so China inflicted a famine upon Tibet as well. They imposed agricultural modernizations that Tibetans did not understand and were unable to do. Nearly 343000 Tibetans starved.
$60 million was loaned to China from Russia each year for 5 years to be repaid in raw materials. In other words, a $300 million bribe was given to China to further communism on their own doorstep. But it did not happen innocently and without bloodshed. As I've stated before, in order to futher Communism in China, the government has sought to get rid of anyone that would offer any viewpoints that may threaten the existence of Communism in China. This even included communist leaders themselves as Mao sought to become supreme. Among the massacres deemed necessary to further communism were those of the Nationalists, the Cambodians, the Christians, the students at Tianammen Square, the Tibetans, and, most recently, the Muslims in Northern China. I'm sure that this is not an exhaustive list.
"THE CHIEF CAUSE OF HUMAN ERRORS IS TO BE FOUND IN THE PREJUDICES PICKED UP IN CHILDHOOD."--Rene' Descartes: 1596-1650, French Mathmetician, Philosopher.
The key to the success of intituting a communist regime lie in the leaders' ability to INSPIRE, COERCE, and MANIPULATE INDIVIDUAL PERSONALITIES. Once he has done this, any action can be justified in the name of justice.
Plato made an analogy of what "justice" is--or seems to be--in the eyes of a person endowed with a power that seems limitless. He questioned whether justice had to do with being "good" or whether it was concerned with whether or not you would be punished for doing the "bad" thing that you want to do. Plato explains this with a story. In this story a man acquires a ring that will, upon wearing, make the man invisible. Plato argues that even the best of the "good" men, when there's no fear of being punished for an action, will do very "bad" things. The situation that Plato gives has the posesser of the ring as a person living within a kingdom. Upon putting on the ring, the man in Plato's analogy rapes the queen, kills the king, and secures his position as the next king. In a twisted way, Plato calls this a type of "justice." Similarly, when a leader doesn't fear punishment, genocide seems to him as justice if it is a means to the ends he desires.
Amazingly, the western world knows little of these genocidal atrocities. Now, with the death of Deng, China has come to the forefront of the news. Yet, even as the world becomes aware of what has been happening to the innocent at the hand of the Communist Chinese government,I doubt that much shall be done because of the size and economic prowress of China.
We raided the land and we despoiled their temples. We wasted the ancients. So complex, the ruins of what was so simple. We left the alters overturned and defiled. We massacred millions. We bowed to the fires where their bodies were piled. We beheaded the priest. We hung the monks from high. We murdered their children, and we tortured the husbands, we raped the wives. We sat our flag in their ground, even then, marked with lies. We took the face of a people, and, in the name of greed, we burned out the eyes. But the eyes see now, and the eyes saw then, that the abomination is so much deeper within. That the fire was futile on the tip of that rod, for the eyes that were burned were the eyes of God. Vengence is yours, my lord. Be benevolent as thy word, and be merciful with thy sword. Vengance is yours, my lord.
Because of a lack of response by the League of Nations and the United Nations in twentieth century genocides, the Communist Chinese government has been able to carry out an uninterupted genocide against the Tibetan people through religious, cultural, and political means.
"NEW OPINIONS ARE ALWAYS SUSPECTED, AND USUALLY OPPOSED, WITHOUT ANY OTHER REASON BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT ALREADY COMMON."--John Locke: 1632-1704, British Philosopher.
As my research progresses, I hope to be able to add it here. In the meantime, you can do some reasearch of your own by following some of the links below. Of course, I also had to add the web page of my one of my favorite guys. Your journey through cyberspace wouldn't be complete without meeting Pedro. :)
You are person number to visit my website!
Links to Tibetan genocide sites on the Web
A History of the Tibetan Genocide
Michael's Tibet Page
Information on how China has Attacked Tibet by Religious and Cultural Means
China's Public Relations Strategy on Tibet: Classified Documents from the Beijing Propoganda Conference [This is the complete text of a report released at the ICT press conference in Washington]---A MUST READ!!!
"A falsity considered long enough begins to look like the truth."
"Ask the ocean where the water meets the land. He will tell you that it depends on where you stand."--Susan Ashton
"A liar needs a good memory."--Quintilian (35-95 AD), Roman rhetorician
"You're the only one that has to deal with the thoughts inside your head. The only thing that affects others are the consequences of your actions from these thoughts."--from my own philosophizing brain
"The balance between ideals and reality is a hard place to reach."--from my own philosophizing head
"The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small."--Witter Bynner (1881-1968), American poet
Feel free to send me e-mail if you have any insight on my subject area, want to glean knowledge from me, or just want to write me. I promise--I don't bite! #:-D
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