Tibetan Unrest : The Crimson's Revolution's True Colour


THE recent crisis in Tibet focused attention on whether there would be yet another "colour revolution" - this time on the roof of the world, leading to a substantial portion of China breaking away.

China has reasons to be concerned. The actors involved in Tibet are essentially the same as those who were involved in toppling legitimate governments elsewhere in the Eurasian heartland.

After doing a comparison, William Engdahl, author of A Century Of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics And The New World Order, has concluded that the Tibetan uprising is but another colour revolution - this time "crimson".

"As in the other Colour Revolutions, the United States government is fanning the flames of destabilisation against China by funding opposition protest organisations inside and outside Tibet through its arm, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)," Engdahl said.

He also cited Freedom House, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), and Trace Foundation, which is funded by financier George Soros through his daughter Andrea Soros Colombel.

The NED was set up by the Reagan administration in the early 1980s on the recommendation of, among others, then-CIA director Bill Casey. It was designed as an independent NGO, one step removed from the US government. Yet its first acting president Allen Weinstein admitted to the Washington Post that "a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA".

The NED has been instrumental in the staging of every "colour revolution" - from Serbia to Georgia, from the Ukraine to Myanmar, says Engdahl.

In the case of Tibet, the NED has supported five major Tibetan exile groups: the Gu-Chu-Sum
(ex-political prisoners' association) Movement of Tibet; the International Campaign for Tibet; the Tibetan Women's Association; the Longsho Youth Movement of Tibet; and the Voice of Tibet.

These groups tried to organise a protest march by Tibetans in India back to their homeland, and had a hand in organising the recent riots in Tibet.

The NED's funding comes almost entirely from the US government. A 2007 report by the Congressional Research Service says US foreign operations appropriations for the People's Republic of China grew from US$10 million (S$13.5 million) in 2002 to US$23 million in 2006. Most of this money went to democracy-related programmes and for the support of Tibetan communities.
About 40 per cent of US government funding for human rights and democracy-related programmes in China was allocated through the NED. Funds for Tibetan exiled communities also came
from the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour, the US Agency for International Development and the New York-based Tibet Fund.

Advice and training for the exiled Tibetans were provided, among others, by the Albert Einstein Institution (AEI), which is funded by Soros foundations and the US government.

AEI founder Gene Sharp once said his institute specialised in "non-violence as a form of warfare". AEI's former president Robert Helvey, a retired US Army colonel and former Defence Intelligence Agency official, is on record as stating that he got involved in "strategic non-violence" after observing the failure of military approaches to toppling dictators. He found this other approach - non-violence - more appealing.

According to a source with access to the Tibetan movement, prior to the March 10 demonstrations in Lhasa, 40 grassroots activists representing 25 Tibetan communities in India were given advanced training on grassroots activism and capacity-building by the five leading Tibetan NGOs, with training manuals provided by the AEI. Held from Feb 15 to 17, the course familiarised participants with the concept of non-violence as warfare.

The AEI has translated its two main "colour revolution" manuals into Tibetan, one with a foreword by the Dalai Lama. Activists from Serbia and Ukraine have said that AEI's training and manuals were instrumental in the formation of their strategies.

American NGOs were not alone in stoking the fire. German ones, funded by the Berlin government, have played an increasingly significant role recently.

The Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF), a think tank linked to the German Free Democratic
Party, has been actively involved in the Tibetan independence movement. According to German-Foreign-Policy.com, a website founded by a group of German journalists and social scientists, the FNF "gave the impetus to the current anti-Chinese Tibet campaign that violently forced the interruption of the Olympic torch relay in Paris".

Last May, the FNF helped organise the Fifth International Tibet Support Groups Conference in Brussels. According to a Tibetan Government in Exile statement, the event led to a "road map" for the Tibet movement for the coming years. It was decided then to make the 2008 Olympics the focus of their activities.

and The road map called for global protests, a march of exiles from India to Tibet and rallies within Tibet. The Olympics were seen as a chance for Tibetans to come out protest "like one mighty force protest - or else Tibet would "slip out of the world map".

Mr Rolf Berndt, from the FNF's executive council, has said the Games were "an excellent opportunity to publicly promote the cause of the Tibet Movement".

Early this January, the five exile organisations issued a statement saying "the 2008 Olympics will mark the culmination of almost 50 years of Tibetan resistance in exile. We will use this historic moment to reinvigorate the Tibetan freedom movement and bring our exile struggle for freedom back to Tibet. We will bring about another uprising that will shake China's control in Tibet and mark the beginning of the end of China's occupation".

Clearly, the immediate cause of the recent bloodshed in Tibet should be attributed to this road map, not the suppression of peaceful demonstrations by the Chinese government, as claimed by most of the Western media.

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Some web sies on NED:

National Endowment for Democracy: Paying to Make Enemies of America
http://www.antiwar.com/paul/paul79.html

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a Washington D.C-based non-profit funded by the U.S. national budget, .....
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index ... wment_for_Democracy

The National Endowment for Democracy is a foreign policy loose cannon. Promoting democracy is a nebulous objective that can be manipulated to justify any whim of the special-interest groups--the Republican and Democratic parties, organized labor, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce--that control most of NED's funds. ....
http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb-027.html

Allen Weinstein, one of the founders of the National Endowment for Democracy, said in 1991, "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA".
http://www.iefd.org/articles/ned.php

"The misnamed National Endowment for Democracy is nothing more than a costly program that takes US taxpayer funds to promote favored politicians and political parties abroad. What the NED does in foreign countries ... would be rightly illegal in the United States. The NED injects 'soft money' into the domestic elections of foreign countries in favor of one party or the other.
http://www.commondreams.org/scriptfiles/views03/1117-06.htm

"Since [1983], the NED and other democracy-promoting governmental and nongovernmental institutions have intervened successfully on behalf of 'democracy' actually a very particular form of low-intensity democracy chained to pro-market economics in countries from Nicaragua to the Philippines, Ukraine to Haiti, overturning unfriendly 'authoritarian' governments (many of which the United States had previously supported) and replacing them with handpicked pro-market allies."
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1513.html

NED Funded Group helped conduct bogus Venezuela Exit Poll...
http://www.mediatransparency.org ... php?recipientID=251

Perhaps another, more accurate way to describe NED's project is "to support [polyarchal] democracy wherever it supports US foreign policy." In other words, for the NED, democracy is good only when it advances US national interests and when it can be contained by the elites.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.co ... yCtr_AFL_Venez.html

"Democratic Imperialism": Tibet, China, and the National Endowment for Democracy
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6530

Washington's interest in Ukraine: Democracy or Energy Geopolitics?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=325

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Some web sites on AEI:

The Albert Einstein Institution (AEI) has played the key role in recent years in training and deploying youth movements to help prepare the conditions for coups through fostering the impression that the targeted regimes are deeply unpopular, and through destabilizing those regimes through their demonstrations and the like.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index ... instein_Institution

WASHINGTON, March 19, 2005, The U.S. government and allied forces' year-end installation of Victor Yushchenko as president of Ukraine have completed the field-testing of the "Postmodern Coup." Employing and fine-tuning the same sophisticated techniques used in Serbia in 2000 and Georgia in 2003 (and unsuccessfully in Belarus in 2001),
http://onlinejournal.org/Special ... /031905mowat-1.html

It has been 15 years since CIA began using it to overthrow inflexible governments without provoking international outrage, and its ideological facade is philosopher Gene Sharp's Albert Einstein Institution. Red Voltaire reveals its amazing activity, from Lithuania to Serbia, Venezuela and Ukraine.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article30032.html

In 1989, when the Albert Institution became well known, Gene Sharp began to advice anticommunist movements. He participated in the establishment of Burma's Democratic Alliance - a coalition of notable anticommunists that quickly joined the military government - and Taiwan's Progressive Democratic Party - which favored the independence of the island from communist China, something U.S. officially opposed. He also unified the Tibetan opposition under Dalai Lama
http://venezuelasolidarity.org.u ... er_cover_coups.html

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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Robert+Helvey+Gene+Sharp

In reality much of the anti-China public opinion war is not grassroot, rather initiated by the US government.

Another example is this woman named "Susan Prager" that keeps popping up to promote "Human Rights Torch Relay" - Guess what I found when I Googled around her name?

- She may be a staffer of US Congressman Robert Andrews

- She is also an officer of a quasai-government non-profit "Friends of FLG" - this group is founded by the wife of fmr. congressman Tom Lantos and Ambassador Mark Palmer of the NED. FoFLG has pumped over 6 million into various FLG media to promot an intensely anti-Chinese political message in US:

http://tinyurl.com/5z78n3

Are you people that brainwashed? Do you truly believe there is a 'crimson' revolution? How many times does His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama have to say that he does not support the violence? Does no one think that the unrest might have a cultural and economic basis rather than some big conspiracy?
Not to mention the 11th Panchen Lama's recent comments... oh thats right.. he hasn't made any since he and his family were imprisoned by the Chinese Government. I hope I am allowed to express my views here.
Yes that's right, both sides can spread the truth as they see it.

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Original posted by woody at 7-5-2008 22:06
Are you people that brainwashed?

It looks more like you are brainwashed by Dalai Lama!

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Do you truly believe there is a 'crimson' revolution? How many times does His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama have to say that he does not support the violence?

Well, the Americans and the British also claimed that they were in Iraq to 'liberate' th Iraqis from their miseries! Is ti true?

Dali Lama can say whatever he wants. What happened in Iraq shows clearly that it was extremely violent.
What happened in London, Paris and Los Angeles show that the pro-Tibetan groups are violent people!

If you are so keen to clear the name of Dalai Lama, please prove that the following and related reports are fabrications!
The Olympic Torch Relay Campaign
http://www.german-foreign-policy ... 51i04prvd5rtmeuq6a0

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Does no one think that the unrest might have a cultural and economic basis rather than some big conspiracy?

Please read the reports:
The Olympic Torch Relay Campaign
http://www.german-foreign-policy ... 51i04prvd5rtmeuq6a0

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Not to mention the 11th Panchen Lama's recent comments... oh thats right.. he hasn't made any since he and his family were imprisoned by the Chinese Government.

You don't seem to understand the procedure for the selection of Panchen Lama. Please check it up first.

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I hope I am allowed to express my views here.
Yes that's right, both sides can spread the truth as they see it.

Truth 'as it is', not as 'they see it'!

Do you have a copy of the two training manuals that were translated into Tibetan? I am especially interested in the Dalai Lama's forward that is reported to be in one of them.

Also, I posted a thread re the death of the Dalai Lama's translator, Lobsang P. Lhalungpa. He wrote Tibet The Sacred Realm, largle a photo album with comentary. This has a forward by the Dalai Lama.

I would be very interested to see the Dalai Lama's forward in those training manuals.

take care
Kathy and Shannon

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Original posted by woody at 7-5-2008 22:06
Are you people that brainwashed? Do you truly believe there is a 'crimson' revolution? How many times does His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama have to say that he does not support the violence? Does no o ...

It is very intersting you mentioned His Holiness not support the violence....Can't you google a bit to find out the truth about how he commented G.Bush's violence 'invation' around the world? ......brainwashed?.....ha...moneywashed, don't you think?

The Dark Side of Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama is being charged with Religion Persecution in India by Tibetans!
Document made by Swiss public TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5sOm-uQH9Y&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aboblx-0zAs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1dILwsmwCQ&feature=related

To sign up petition for requesting Dalai Lama to give religious freedom
Stop religious persecution! Please visit Western Shugdensociety
http://www.westernshugdensociety.org/

Western media miss the real Tibet story
By Michael Backman

Following is quoted from a comment from http://www.syracuse.com:80/news/ ... t_dali_lama_at.html

Posted by Dharmakara on 04/23/08 at 3:03PM

Dear Pyle, Nolife, and other members of the Dharma Retardation Party of Tibet:

IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT GET OUT OF THE FRYING PAN.

Buddhism is reflected in many ways, in multiple traditions, but what is this creature that has the nerve to place its understanding above that of the Buddha?

Tibetan Buddhism has been and more than likely will continue to be about "spiritual materialism" --- nothing has changed and probably won't until the true heirs of Atisha Dipankar get off their butts and do something about it.

Let's examine this concept that the Dalai Lama has always been a "man of peace", shall we? After exile, the Dalai Lama ended up on the bankroll of the CIA (the Tibetan concept of "dana") while his brother trained guerrillas to send back into China --- some of them were also trained here in the US.

When the "gravy train" ceased to exist, the Dalai Lama was quite angry with the US and had no problem giving voice to this anger.

Of course today we are dealing with a more mature and hopefully wiser Dalai Lama, but give us a break --- anyone who reads the earlier writings of the Dalai Lama will see a stark contrast.

My own preceptor met him about that time and referred to him as an "angry young man" and even commented on the Dalai Lama's own statement that he would find better teachers to remedy the situation.

Has he done so? Well, that is questionable.

In 1997 three members of his inner circle were brutally murdered several hundred yard from the Dalai Lama's residence in the dead of night. In this case, the scapegoat wasn't China, though they originally attempted to point their finger in that direction, but instead they settled for blaming the Shugden sect of Tibetan Buddhism as the most likely culprit.

Although the Dalai Lama has been very critical of that particular sect of the Tibetan tradition, this has not always been the case and, interestingly enough, many of the senior members of the sect in question actually safeguarded the Dalai Lama as he fled Tibet in 1959.

What's wrong? Did they outlive their usefulness?

Needless to say, politics make strange bedfellows, but isn't this the actual cause of problems within Tibetan Buddhism --- the existence of political agendas among its supporters, always clinging, always craving, and always living in denial of it --- and when they're not doing so, they're busy creating "exclusive dharmas" in the guise of expedient means.

What's the going price for an empowerment these days?

If the members of the Tibetan tradition cannot be truthful about ittheir own past or deal with abuses which occur in the present moment, how can they ever claim to be a path toward liberation? By enslaving people? By exclusive dharmas? By deceptions? By turning a blind eye when teachers abuse students? By adopting a spirit of denial?

We're all not idiots in the West and many of us know what gets whispered in the backrooms of monasteries around the world.

If I've said this once, I've said it a thousand times: if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's a duck.

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Ah I see ... sorry Jigong... i Didn't realise you had a monopoly on the truth... only your views are truthful. Very Interesting.
DO you deny that the 11th Panchen Lama is currently being held prisoner by the Chinese? I bet you do!
No I have net been brain washed by anyone. I am not a follower of Vajriyana Buddhism just an observer of the Dhamma.
Why not provide the evidence that the Chinese Government says that it has that the Dalai Lama is behind the violence?
What the USA and allies (including my own country) did in Iraq is very wrong. Don't you know that even if the goal of the action is meant to be good... if the action itself is wrong than only negative Khamma can come out of it.
I do not pretend that my country or any country is innocent of wrong. All governments by their very nature  of trying to get their own views across will do some wrong. No one in this world is 100% innocent for all of their actions and words. I am not. The Dalai Lama is not, the Chinese authorities are not, and neither are you.
Pity you are so quick to criticize  and be defensive... sad!!!

Ah Lyndon, I agree with you on some issues. There is no way that all Tibetan Buddhists (Vajriyana to be exact) are free from craving and and some I am sure are not truthful about their past. Is any Government?
Hmm you must have been in some very interesting "back rooms"
Can you admit that China has been guilty of atrocities? That perhaps the reasons for Chinese discrimination is more to do with control of a strategic area than with the 'liberation' of the Tibetan people. This is the strangest liberation I have ever seen...
As for the duck analogy.... why do you think so many people want to discredit the Dalai Lama... could it not be to weaken the Vajriyana Buddhist beliefs?
rather than talk about ducks... may I suggest that before trying to remove a splinter from someone else's eye... you remove the log from your own!!!