Tibet redux--blaming the victims

The revolt of Tibetans in Lhasa which has spread like a praire fire to other provinces in China is blamed on the Dalai Lama. Some say, it's his last chance to embarass Beijing for its iron fisted rule over his country. Now that is a big wad of sophistry to chew. If anyone wishes to see through detective fiction a record of China's gentle rule in Tibet, let him read any of Elliot Paterison's books. Steeped in a great respect for Tibetan lore, he doesn't spare us of the details of the gulag that China has made of Tibet for Tibetans.
If there is blame, it falls heavily and squarely on Beijing's shoulders and on the arch Han chauvinsim of its leaders.
Repression a la Tienamen is being carried out in Tibet and in those areas of other demonstrations. The Chinese tiger has not changed its spots. The world community is aghast and is trying to sooth this savage beast's fur. Beware it doesn't snap back at you.
Revolt in Tibet has cast a pall on the Beijing Summer Olympics, and if the world had its druthers it would boycott the games as it did when the Soviet Union had invaded Aghanistan in 1979, at the time of the 1980 Summer Olympics. It won't probably. That incompetent Herr Bush will go to the Games as will other world leaders. Which casts an even more ominous shadow on big power leadership.
Some Chinese had come up with a conspiracy theory which put Steven Spielberg's distancing himself from being a propagandist for the Beijing games as the spark for the revolt. Fantasy reigns supreme!
An article on New York Times on line is recommended by 18Brumaire. It deals with the criticism the Beijing leaders are coming under from Chinese think tanks, for pursuing goals which bring shame and dishonour on the motherland. Now, ain't that a kick in the head. Of course Tibet is not that scarlet letter but Beijing's support of Sudan and its thirst for oil and its connexion to repression and genocide is. Yes, China has a lot to answer for!