PLA soldier's experience in Tibet
I am just back from Chengdu. In the filight back to the city where I am living, a younger army officer sat beside me. Only when the journey was close to its end, the officer started a conversation with me, as he found that I was reading a book on Mao Tse Dong and I was getting to part about Tibet.From his narrative, I know he's a student just graduated from a military in Chengdu, and he was on his way to his newly assigned post after the graduation. In this March, they were sent to Ah Ba (a Tibetan Automous Region) this March, where two of his schoolmates lost their lives, one had his eyes taken out, one stabbed by a knife by a 12 year old hungry looking boy, to whom the young soldier was trying to send some pork from his own meet can, when he himself was also very hungry.
All of the soliders had been ordered not to open fire. Therefore it was not possible to take a revenge on the boy.
I once thought the Tibetans in Ah Bai should be less violent, as the places they live are either relatively close to where the Han live, or live side by side with other nationalities including Hans. During the earth quake we have seen lots of Tibetans saved by PLAs and were very grateful.
The officer said that the local Tibetans in Ah Bai are in the same sect of Tibetan Buddhism, and that's why they hate Hans so much. I was told that the local in Lasha is in a different sect. Not sure if it is true.
Really upset by his story. Feel sorry for the soliders virtually without arms. I can understand that now how hard they hate Tibetans. But I should say if we Hans need to hate some Tibetans, we'd better to hate those who agitated the simple headed local Tibetans, those in-exile, they are surely to blame, they fanned hatred and advocated violence.
The government is trying hard to avoid using violence and thus reduce or abvoid causing more hatred, but surely those lamas pushed so hard to try to cause violence.
Just as believed to be said by a Taiwanese who travel often in China including Tibet, it could be right to have more schools and more prisons in Tibet, schools for ordinary people and prisons for lamas. It's believed that in some areas in Tibet, lamas outnumber ordinary people.
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