Running Tibetan conflict thread

Not to derail the baby girl threadjack, but this is going to get worse before it gets better. China is ordering foreign journalists out of more provinces and have sealed off Lhasa ...

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8VEV31O0&show_article=1

Tibet's exiled government says hundreds are dead from the crackdown ...

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080317090321.tp9mvvpd&show_article=1

 

...US power doesn't care about Tibet or others in China because there are no oil pipelines to build.

 

Richard Gere's blog has some excellent stuff as well.

 

Anyone have a guess as to what it would take for serious international action to be taken against China? Another Tianammen (sp?) Square Massacre? If a Nobel Peace Prize winner says something is going FUBAR, why isn't there at least some talk of action? It's things like these that seriously makes me wonder if we're living in the End of Days...

 

If the Chinese economy collapsed to the point it wasn't the No. 1 economic super power, then maybe.

 

The Dalai Lama has threatened to resign as Tibetan head of state if his people continue with violent protests ...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88470340

 

The Chinese government will select the successor. They passed a law dictating that they are able to select the next Dalai Lama. It was an odd law that was weirdly phrased since the Dalai Lama is all about reincarnation.