Blog #5

There are a number of human rights issues being abused throughout Tibet. Since last week the Chinese government has sent its police to raid the homes of the residents of Lhasa in search of people who were involved in recent protests that happened throughout the city. Citizens of that region have reported that the police are pulling people out of their homes. Not to mention that the Chinese government is reporting that 13 of its citizen have bee killed because of the protesters. We than have Tibetan exiles stating that over 90 Tibetans have been killed by the police. This is only one of the situations going on between the people of Tibet and China. And since the beginning of China’s ruling, many of the Tibetans have gone through much worse. Tibetans have been locked up for no reason by the Chinese government throughout the years and many of them have been tortured while detained. In 1995 a report came out talking about how children risk their lives trying to cross the Himalayas just to get away from the Chinese government. Imagine the place where you were born and the only way you could live a decent life was by risking your own life just to get a glimpse of this freedom. Just after reading that report we see that the Chinese government has already gone against Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

According to Amnesty International, every week people are thrown into jails from protesting the government. The human rights group also states that the Chinese government will go into people’s homes and take away their pictures of the Dahlia Lama. Tibetans have been going through this treatment since the 1950’s and it’s shocking that the Chinese government is still getting away with this. If the UDHR was created to protect the universal rights of all individuals, why is it that people (Tibetans) are still suffering? How come nothing has been done to stop this chaotic treatment?