Apr
23
Chinese Communists and their “political education” campaign in Tibet
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In other circumstances, a modern day “political education” drive by Communist China might sound like a bad parody on the old “re-education”camps of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Unfortuanately for the Tibetans being tyrannized by Beijing, “political education” just sounds like a code phrase for intensifying the ongoing suppression of Tibet.
According to Reuters:
In a bid to reinforce control in Lhasa, Party authorities have launched an education drive focused on officials and Party members, the official Tibet Daily reported on Monday.
The campaign to “fight separatism, protect stability and promote development” would focus on “unifying the thinking and cohesive strength of officials and the masses, deepening the struggle against separatism and counter-attacking the separatist plots of the Dalai clique”, said the paper.
Party members and officials would be assessed on their “performance” in the two-month drive, which will include television programs and organized denunciation sessions.
Organized denunciation sessions? That would make for some compelling television…just before the opening ceremony for the Summer Olympics in Beijing.