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venerdì, marzo 14, 2008
La primavera di Lhasa. Fa bene Federico Punzi a sottolineare l'esempio dei monaci birmani nel commentare i fatti di Lhasa, dove la rivolta non accenna a rientrare. Ma indubbiamente gioca un ruolo essenziale anche la teoria delle mille punture di spillo citata ieri: la pressione internazionale delle ultime settimane intorno alle politiche di Pechino (dal Darfur, alla Birmania, al Tibet) è stata abilmente raccolta dai monaci di Drepung e Sera per rilanciare una protesta che stava languendo, per stanchezza o rassegnazione. La Cina accusa il Dalai Lama ma è improbabile che sia lui l'ispiratore delle manifestazioni. Sembra piuttosto l'inizio di una vera e propria ribellione anticoloniale condotta dalle giovani generazioni di tibetani. Resta da vedere fino a che punto i cinesi permetteranno che la situazione degeneri ma in ogni caso hanno scarse possibilità di uscirne bene a pochi mesi dalle Olimpiadi:
Per il governo cinese si prefigura una situazione assai delicata. A pochi mesi dalle Olimpiadi ha gli occhi del mondo puntati addosso. Non può permettersi repressioni troppo sanguinarie, ma neanche di lasciar gonfiare le file della lotta nonviolenta tibetana. Gli scontri nel centro della capitale: Rallies have continued all week in what are said to be the largest protests against Beijing's rule in 20 years. British journalist James Miles, in Lhasa, told the BBC that rioters had taken control of the city centre. "Some of them are still attacking Chinese properties - shops, restaurants, owned by ethnic Chinese," he said. Qui l'Economist su come è cominciato tutto: It seems to have begun on the anniversary itself, when police stopped an attempt by monks in Lhasa to demonstrate. This much has been confirmed by a Foreign Ministry spokesman in Beijing, who said monks from “some temples” had carried out an illegal activity on March 10th “under the instigation and encouragement of a small group of people.” He said they were “dealt with” according to the law. Residents say that more uniformed and plainclothes police have been deployed around sensitive parts of the city. Policemen patrol the city centre close to the Jokhang Temple, one of the holiest sites of Tibetan Buddhism where several protests, often involving just a handful of people, have occurred over the years. One resident said some plainclothes police appeared to be disguising themselves as monks. La polizia controlla le strade ed allontana i turisti mentre le leggende alimentate dal PCC sull'integrazione tra tibetani e han grazie alla linea ferroviaria più alta del mondo si sciolgono come neve al sole: The protests on Monday and Tuesday surprised many China-watchers, who assumed that the Qinghai-Tibetan railway – which connects Beijing to Lhasa in 48 hours over a 4,500-meter-high plateau – was helping to integrate Tibet with China. In the summer, thousands of Chinese flock into Lhasa, staying in dozens of new hotels and paying extra on the black market for scarce tickets into Potala Palace, perhaps the most beautiful structure in Asia and the former residence of the Dalai Lama, now exiled in India. In Barkhor Square, police officers shooed the group of foreign tourists out of the square and back to their hotels. The officers were smiling, as if this was for the foreigners' safety. Clearly, something was going on in the latest hot spot of Asian tourism. Altri monasteri coinvolti: Large-scale demonstrations that began Monday have spread to a third monastery, Ganden, in the Lhasa area, as well as the Reting monastery north of the city, according to RFA and the London-based International Campaign for Tibet. Elogio della disarmonia: Five months before the Olympics this really is a "perfect storm" for Beijing as it appears to be in a no-win situation: if the authorities don't react, the protest will grow larger (remember Tiananmen?); if they do, and there are deaths, as would seem inevitable, they face the possibility of much more serious anti-Olympics/boycott campaigning that will far exceed the limited traction gained by the Darfur activists. E noi? Speriamo che stavolta ci risparmino le magliette zafferano. |
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