What human rights have been broken in Tibet? Why does the monks want freedom?

Question

Everyone is just telling me to read the news and i will find out, but I still don't see any evidence or facts.

Answer 1

The monks want the privileges to lord over the people and return Tibet to a caste system in which monks are kings. That is the freedom they are talking about. In the latest proposal to the Beijing government, the Dali Lama 14-th wants that right above all else.

Answer 2

The monks are already free to do what they have been doing for centuries and they don't want anything else!  They are only instigated by Dalai Lama who has selfish interests creating unrest in Tibet, which he did some months back!

Answer 3

The new york times has a column with a brief history of Tibet/China from both sides, it's enough to get a start.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/opinio...

As for going incredibly in depth and "neutral" on the matter, it's kind of hard to. The Chinese government is extremely tight lipped, and of course the media (state run) will always favor the government, and the Dalai Lama is an exiled ruler, and is naturally impossible to be objective. It's hard to get the "whole" story.

But the reason why they want freedom is this.

Imagine you have a house with your family. And then a couple of other people barge into your home and start squatting in it. And telling you what to do, what to beleive, how to raise your family. And then they're popping kids out on their own in the hopes of eventually breeding you out of your own home. That's in a nutshell the Tibetian argument.

Of course the other side is that Tibet has been in possession by china for a long time already; and the protesting about freeing tibet is a bit ironic, since (for example americans) will just tell the native americans that lost their land to the white man that "you lost the land, now deal with it.".

Answer 4

they want recognition as an independent country....