Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Beijing to Tibetan Buddhists: pray and get arrested!

Catholics loyal to Rome are not the only ones being persecuted by China's Communist government. (See today's first post.) In a country where freedom of religion is enshrined in the constitution -- subject of course to approval by the government -- you can be arrested for following your faith, no matter what faith it is.

Especially if you're a Tibetan, a Buddhist and loyal to the Dalai Lama. One, two, three strikes and you're out! Or rather... you're in, as... in jail. AsiaNews reports that, after receiving permission from the Beijing government to travel to India to attend a prayer meeting under the direction of the Dalai Lama, 7000 Tibetan Buddhists are being arrested on their return to China.

Hundreds of people have already been arrested without formal charges. Evidently this is a new phase in China's continuing crackdown on Tibetan resistance to Chinese occupation. "The authorities no longer try to understand. They want to turn people into zombies," a source told AsiaNews. Communist zombies, of course.

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