Behind The Scenes
We have by now all seen grainy, shaky footage of the violence that has erupted in Tibet within the past week. Yet, as with so many events observed by us at distance, there is far more to this than first meets the eye.
During his recent column in The Sunday Telegraph, Christopher Booker highlighted how our Government (the EU Commission) has become involved in actively colluding with the Chinese authorities to deny aid relief in Tibet. Booker tells us:
On the country’s northern edge, six months of snow and record low temperatures have created a catastrophe in the Chinese province of Chingai. According to China’s official news agency, 500,000 animals have died and three million people face starvation. When a similar if much smaller crisis 10 years ago hit Ladakh, in northern Kashmir, thousands of lives were saved by the expert intervention of a British charity, ApTibet, working with the Dalai Lama’s Tibetan Relief Committee.
It should be noted at this point that we have seen extraordinarily low temperatures across the globe this winter ranging from blizzards in Texas to snow carpeting Jerusalem, Damascus and Amman – all of which Christopher Booker has actually reported on in previous weeks. However, as Booker observed at the time, this has gone ‘virtually unreported in Britain’. This of course strongly and vividly contrasts with reporting from the BBC and many other British news agencies which persist in predicting global warming disaster and catastrophe on an unimaginable scale.
Once again regarding Tibet, one would have thought that right now the charity work carried out by ApTibet would be vital and much appreciated by the international community. Not so in the European Union. Booker continues by informing us that:
Two years ago, after China and Europe became ‘strategic partners’ under an agreement signed by Tony Blair, the EU’s acting president, in December 2005, the Commission suspended ApTibet’s operations because of its link to the Dalai Lama. Since then, it has done all it can to close the charity down…
The whole Booker column is well worth reading, as he describes the way in which the European Union has attempted to bankrupt ApTibet by suspending outstanding contracts with the agency and calling for immediate repayment of funds that it had readily given before the 2005 Blair agreement with China. Booker ends by commenting that:
Doubtless in Beijing, the EU’s ‘strategic partners’ are happy. Meanwhile, its troops are again shooting at Tibetans in the streets of Lhasa, while to the north, three million people are starving, without any hope of assistance from the outside world.
Of little surprise is the fact that you just don’t hear about this on the BBC or indeed from any other British news outlet. Research and analysis would be required to reach these conclusions – something that modern media is none too fond of; that, and it doesn’t fit the ‘official’ narrative of events.
